friendly reminders bc tumblr is homophobic as hell
âhomosexualâ was a term used to pathologize gayness and perpetuate homophobia in the form of âitâs a disease that needs to be curedâ by the cishet psych industry and should never be used as an umbrella term or without consent
âgaysâ is dehumanizing terminology, the same way you wouldnât call trans people âtransgenders.â Gay is an adjective, and the usage of it as a noun was coined by homophobes intentionally attempting to dehumanize gay people by specifically not referring to them as people. Again, do not use this term as an umbrella term or without consent
âmonosexualâ lumps lesbians (both cis and trans) in with cishet men (an already very common way of being a lesbophobic piece of shit - comparing lesbians to straight men) and implies that they have the same level of privilege based on the fact that they both are only attracted to one gender. It is giving lesbians the same level of privilege as their oppressor for the reason that they are oppressed
âmonosexismâ is not the same as terms like âneurotypicalâ or âwhiteâ because monosexual is specifically grouping people together with their oppressors, for the things that they are oppressed for whereas every neurotypical person has the same level of privilege for simply being neurotypical
jokes like âmonosexuals are boringâ or âmonosexuals are close mindedâ are literally outright saying that lesbians are wrong and bad for not dating men so please check yourself before even considering making a joke like this I canât believe that even has to be said
nonbinary gay people exist. if youâre going to fight so hard to redefine bisexuality as âattraction to two or more gendersâ than you sure as hell should be open to allowing nonbinary people to call themselves gay, and let binary gay people be attracted to nonbinary people.
nonbinary lesbians have literally always existed. there have been lesbians who have felt disconnect from womanhood and identified outside of being âfully womanâ for decades stop acting like nonbinary lesbians are a new and terrifying thing and let lesbians identify how they want jesus christ
stop specifically emphasizing when a cis girl whoâs being transmisogynistic is a lesbian because I guarantee you it is cis privilege that is causing her to be disgusting, not the fact that she is a lesbian, and by focusing on that youâre just adding to the already constant demonization of lesbians
learn to tell the difference between âgay privilegeâ (nonexistent) and âa gay person with privilege in other areas that causes them to be a bigoted piece of shitâ (ex. cis gay people, white gay people, gay males, neurotypical gay people)