When you read Andrea Dworkin say she’s never been more afraid then when she was speaking to a group of lesbians that were pissed that she called herself one despite not being one that’s her literally admitting she’s lesbophobic. She wasn’t more afraid of speaking out against the men that rape, mutilate, murder, pimp, sex traffic, molest, or beat women and girls? Nope. It’s lesbians holding her accountable for her appropriation of an oppressed community that made her shake in her boots.
When you read bell hooks say that lesbian erotica shouldn’t be sexist against the penis because we all need to celebrate and cherish it she’s proving her lesbophobia.
I’m reading Mary Daly’s Gyn/Ecology right now and less than 30 pages in she says she doesn’t believe in homosexuality, that when she uses Lesbian with a capital L it’s about women identified women (the ‘correct’ usage) and when she uses it with a lower case l she’s talking about the “male-distorted version… women who relate genitally to women”. That’s worse than Dworkin comparing us nazis.
Why should I ‘separate the art from the artist’ when it comes to “older” or “published” or “brilliant” radical feminist women? Why should I consider the fact that the foundation of the second wave was the silencing of lesbians and the theft of our culture a ‘disagreement’ and not a deal breaker?
Why should I not recognize that for all the great writing they’ve made they were the foremothers of the anti-lesbian identity politics bullshit we’re currently drowning in?
And when you hear about how there were REAL lesbians who had major issues with these women why is it that you can’t find any names? Any writings? Why were the most lesbophobic and appropriative radical feminists the most successful radical feminists? Why are successful radical feminist lesbians almost nonexistent? Doesn’t it seem odd to you when you consider that the movement was built and maintained by genuine lesbians?
Any lesbian that decides not to read works by women that hate, fear, silence, and deny her very existence isn’t ageist, she’s sparing herself the suffering that comes as a side effect of being part of a distinct oppressed class of women.
And here’s a thought. Why can’t older women learn from us? Maybe even admit they were wrong? They can give up Lesbian and take fucking wlw.
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