#lesbians deserve better

[justanisabelakinnie]

Fandom Lesbophobia

No but the way fandom treats lesbianism, whether canon lesbian characters or characters headcanoned as lesbians, or ships involving lesbians(whether canon or fanon) is fucking whack. 

Whenever a female character is canonically confirmed to be a lesbian, “fans” will always go the whole nine yards in trying to prove that the character is bi; they’ll always headcanon the character as bi and ship them with men. If you politely tell them that the character is a lesbian they’ll snap at you and call you biphobic or say there’s no proof of that or that “everyone can have their headcanons regardless” not when it’s actively erasing a canon sexuality being represented, ya dipshits. I can’t think of a single gay female character I’ve seen that hasn’t been called bi or even straight or had their sexuality dismissed by being shipped with men: Apple White, Tomoyo Daidouji, Robin Buckley, Amity Blight, Velma Dinkley, the list goes on and on. 

Even when the character isn’t canonically a lesbian but is headcanoned as such people seem super against it and will be super bothered by it for some reason. Like they’ll always ask you “why” you hc the character as a lesbian and say “but she could be bi!” And yeah, she could, but what’s so wrong with me seeing her as a lesbian? Why not just make your own post about the character being bi? And then they’ll go on to derail your post by talking about how much they ship the female character with a man. Why are you so offended at the possibility of a female character not being attracted to men? Why do all women have to be available to men, even in fiction? 

Imo people seem to hate lesbian headcanons the most, even compared to other headcanons. It’s as if a female character being unattracted to men completely intimidates them and/or is something they can’t comprehend, whether it’s canon or not. Just looking at the Encanto TikTok, when it comes to queer headcanons, fans on there seem to hate the lesbian Isabela one the most. And no, I’m not talking about Colombians who don’t want the message of the movie to be erased, I’m talking about people who simply don’t like the headcanon because they are homophobic/lesbophobic. Maybe it’s just me being an Isabela simp and looking at more content of Isabela and since I’m a lesbian the headcanon I tend to look at the most is Isabela being a lesbian as well(especially since I also have the headcanon myself), but I see it all the time, even more so than hatred for Mirabel being bi or Camilo being genderfluid even though the latter is possibly the most baseless. 

Like I am so sick of people getting mad at others for headcanoning Isabela as a lesbian and using Bubo as an excuse even though his character is a rough draft and not canon. And it’s funny as well because most people don’t even like Bubo. Bring him up to an Encanto fan and they’ll instantly say they dislike him. But suddenly you want him to be with Isabela because it’s still better than Isabela being a lesbian. I even saw someone’s account receive death threats, attacks, and hatred just because they headcanoned Isabela as a lesbian, and it culminated in them taking down all their Isabela lesbian content and uploading an apology video instead, and all the comments were saying “it’s okay I forgive you now that you understand” WHAT?! So you only feel bad that she received hate because she no longer has the headcanon? It’s fine for her to receive death threats as long as she does have it though because she deserves it for thinking a fictional fucking female character isn’t attracted to men. Fucking sickening. 

Don’t even get me started on how much more popular slash generally is compared to femslash. Because as we all know if a relationship doesn’t have men at its center then it’s not worth paying attention to and not to mention people will attack you for having the ship all the time as well. Even if it is canon don’t think that will stop fandom from tearing the ship apart and pairing one or both characters with boys. Alternatively very often slash pairers will only ship f/f ships to get them out of the way of their slash ship, and I’ve seen a lot of fics while looking for a femslash pair that I want that are tagged as such but only have that relationship in the background/as secondary. And the main and “foreground” ship is always an m/m ship every. single. time. This post goes into it in more detail so that I don’t have to, but the point is made that it’s so upsetting because this all directly stems from centering of men in society as well as fandom. idk it just frustrates me. And I wish this was acknowledged more. 

TLDR: I’m tired, please just respect lesbian characters more in fiction and let people have their lesbian headcanons and ships, that is all. Lesbians deserve better. 

#been a long time since i've written a long post lol it feels good to be back #i'm sick though so i apologize if my diction is not up to par #lesbian #lesbophobia #fandom lesbophobia #lesbians deserve better #femslash #f/f #isabela madrigal #encanto #encanto headcanons #encanto queer headcanons #isabela madrigal is a lesbian #tiktok #encanto tiktok #honestly tiktok in general is heavily lesbophobic so i'm not surprised #anyway fuck tiktok #encanto fandom #encanto fandom salt #lesbian representation #lesbian headcanons

[disneydatass]

Very interesting that shows like faking it, gentleman jack, sense8, I am not okay with this, sweet/vicious, and one day at a time were cancelled. Peculiar that projects like Xena reboot and Avatar Kyoshi were pushed back. Absolutely fascinating that shows like warrior nun and a league of their own have not been picked up and are waiting in unknown purgatory. Truly a fascinating perplexion!

#lgbtq #lgbt+ #lesbians deserve better #and I’m a tad bitter #there’s like a whole list of shows that were left out #if ALOTO does not get picked up I swear to god! #i still can’t believe they did sunshine angel walker like this #the one time we get good writing characters and not pointless deaths #ugh

[dyk3medown]

wow i love unfollowing fellow queer people bc they reblog just blatantly lesbophobic content!! thx for showing ur true colors bestie it’s so cool that you just hate lesbians for no reason!! love the solidarity!!

#lesbians deserve better #v speaks ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

[evyltalks]

“That's Dorcas Meadowes, Voldemort killed her personally..."

A cute little dorlene series (a little bit more focused on Dorcas bc I love her so much) for #lesbianvisibilityweek and as we say in french bravo les lesbiennes !!

#please don’t be mad at me #i know it’s sad #dorlene deserve better #marauders #art #marauders fanart #fanart #dorlene #lesbian dorcas #dorcas meadows fanart #marlene mckinnon x dorcas meadows #dorcas meadowes #dorcas my beloved #marlene mckinnon fanart #lesbian marlene #dorcas x marlene #marlene mckinnon

[theoldkyokodied]

posting all my genderbent sunny (mostly toxic yuri macden) art at once like i'm known to do tehee :) ft Charlie in a little mini comic where mac and den try to give her a make-over for a scheme, based on a conversation i had with my friend kath, who is THE person i'd trust most with writing an actual iasip episode btw.

#macdennis #macden #fem macdennis #iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #i love. women. love it even more when they are toxic hehe. i am a simple lesbian #also so sorry charlie bby. make-up should stay between mac and den to be psychosexual about #you deserve better!! #a lot of the designs for mac and den are inspired by 2005 fashion and kaths brilliant ideas #like cropping shirt being the hashtag girl equivalent of cutting sleeves of your shirt. literally the most brilliant thing ever to me #anyway. goodbye. see ya once i got more regular macden (turns into a pile of goo on the ground)

[nixnight1]

I just saw this video and I had to recreate it:

Jegulus texting:

Regulus: Why did you leave me a 20 dollars bill with a note saying "Bye ♡"

James: For the bus. Wtf are you still doing at my place Reg?

Regulus: I just woke up

James: Why the hell did you sleep for so long? Lily is off work, she's probably going home

Regulus: Shit shit shit she's here

James: Hide somewhere!!

Regulus: I'm under the bed. You do something!! Take her out, she's wandering around the place.

Regulus: The note and the bill are on the table

Regulus: James?

Regulus: Potter?

Regulus: ANSWERE ME

James: sorry I was on a meeting

Regulus: FOR A DAMN HOUR

Regulus: when is Evans leaving?

James: Tomorrow?

Regulus: I CANT STAY HERE TILL TOMORROW

James: Just sleep, I'll try to make her pick me up

Regulus: Someone rang the bell

James: whom?

Regulus: a girl, I think she is your neighbour

James: Does she have dark hair?

Regulus: I don't know James, I'm under the bed

Regulus: Holy shit they're on the bed

James: Doing what?!

Regulus: You don't really want to know...

James: Hold on! I'll be there in two minutes

---

Regulus: That's you opening the door?

James: There's no one here, did you lie to make me come home sooner to help you?

Regulus: She's hiding under the bed with me

#regulus black #regulus deserved better #jegulus #starchaser #james potter #james x regulus #lily and james #lily evans #marylily #mary mcdonald #incorrect slytherin skittles quotes #incorrect marauders quotes #marauders era #the marauders #james potter loves regulus black #lilys a lesbian but they dont know it yet

[sandinmybed]

not to be a mean lesbian™️ but stop calling robin sapphic when you mean she's a lesbian. there's so little lesbian rep, she is one. lesbian is not a dirty word

#robin buckley #stranger things #lesbians deserve better #nothjng wrong w the word sapphic but just say what you mean #lesbian is not a dirty word

[xamiipholia]

This is a really important read. (fyi the title refers to the upcoming LIS, not True Colors)

Rebekkah Valentine is the real deal, she does great fucking investigative journalism.

Honestly it seems like a miracle that True Colors is as good as it is. Fuck Square Enix.

#lis true colors #lis #life is strange #deck nine #queer community #bisexual representation #our bi siblings deserve better than this bullshit #Sincerely a really fucking tired lesbian #Alex chen #gaming industry

[daffodils-loverrs]

Jackie Taylor (+ Shauna) | miscellaneous character study

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Leanna Firestone, Two Week Notice

Black Wing, Twinkling

Madison Beer, Good In Goodbye

a.j., vulnerability

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Caroline Polachek, Pang

Pablo Neruda, Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)

Taylor Swift, Fifteen

#yellowjackets webweave #yellowjackets web weaving #jackie taylor you are so missed #truly a tragic hero #jackie's pov on DEEP FRIEND LOVE lmao #lesbian situationships will do this to you #no but srsly jackie’s storyline makes me so sad #deserved better #shauna's pov coming as well #yellowjacketsedit #yellowjackets #web weaving #web weave #miscellanea #jackie x shauna #shaunajackie #shackie #jackieshauna #jackie taylor #shauna shipman #wlw #ella purnell #sophie nelisse

[burningtheroots]

Okay, this might be controversial, but …

We all know and see how feminism — mainstream feminism — began to more and more include and revolve around men, although feminism is supposed to be specifically for women‘s rights.

I could say a lot about how mainstream "feminism" has become just another men‘s rights movement in disguise, BUT that‘s not the point of this post.

What came to my mind long ago is that every other social justice movement centers men, too. Now I‘m not saying that men can‘t be oppressed based on ethnicity, sexuality, class, nationality, disability etc., and they certainly are part of movements about these issues. (not comparable to FEMinism, of course, since men are NOT oppressed on the basis of their sex — even intersectional feminism is only for WOMEN as they face unique oppression for being female, and oppressive systems are the result of male supremacy)

However, the more I observe what‘s going on, the more I notice that men are the center of these movements although it affects women just as much, and even more because misogyny and racism, homophobia etc. intertwine.

So, we got an LGBTQIAwhatever+ movement which is more concerned with male sexuality and male feelings than women‘s voices and safety. Not only in terms of the gender debate and the fact that women get dehumanized (e.g. "menstruators", "birthing people", "bonus hole") and that their sex-based reality gets erased, but also when it comes to how LGBTQIAwhatever+ rights are framed. For example, "kink" has been heavily pushed forward by and centered around the men, even during the beginning of the movement, although lesbian and bisexual women have always been critical of it, yet it‘s now the public image we get associated with as well. Women are hoping for solidarity with the men, but the men somehow still don‘t bother to work on their misogyny. It‘s inarguable that while the women and men share the oppression through homophobia — and don’t get me wrong, I think that all LGB people should fight against homophobia together — the women are still oppressed by the men due to misogyny.

We also have a Black Lives Matter movement, which has thankfully raised a lot of awareness since it started and is an integral part of social justice. However, the phenomenon remains the same: Men are centered, whereas the women have to mostly fend for themselves. I‘m not comparing case X to case Z or something like that, but the outrage when a black woman gets violated and faces misogynoir is very little compared to cases of while man on black man violence. I‘m not saying "pay less attention to victims who are black men!", I‘m saying "pay more attention to victims who are black women!" (same goes for racism and hate crimes against other ethnicities). And I‘m not glossing over the fact that there are MANY amazing black women who raise their voices and do meaningful activism, I‘m just saying that they don’t receive the same platform as their male counterparts, face misogyny (including heavy sexualization) from both black and white men and often feel the need to give up some space for the men, as apparently women can‘t talk about the female experience exclusively in the society we live in without getting scrutinized.

Then we got the Disability Rights Movement, which is somehow less popular but still as important. While most of the rights and affirmations are for both men and women alike, the men are still seen as a priority, both compared to other disabled women and in some cases also non-disabled women. Many disabled women have spoken about how disabled men still sexualize them and subject them to their misogyny, and we even got to the point where disabled men are supposed to be given access to rape prostitutes (yes, prostitution is paid rape even when you‘re disabled) whilst disabled women barely have the right to same-sex intimate care and are also more likely to get medically mistreated.

I could go on about how poor/homeless women are belittled and forced into prostitution and therefore overlooked compared to poor/homeless men (the notion that there are more poor/homeless men than women and hence men have it worse is false as the poor/homeless women end up as sex trafficking victims, especially during war times, or at least get coerced into enduring paid rape), how the "body positivity" movement has become another men‘s sexual fantasy, how discussions about religious indoctrination and extremism usually revolve around the boys and men who get dragged into becoming violent fanatics whilst the girls and women are expected to have empathy for their abusers, how men assert their male privilege shamelessly and regardless of all these aspects above …

But in the end, what becomes clear, is that men enthusiastically use the tools of patriarchy even when fighting against other forms of social injustice, and we as women deserve so much better than this — and this is also why we need to unite ourselves and prioritize one another.

#women deserve better #radfem #radblr #radical feminism #feminism #radfems do touch #radfems do interact #radfems please touch #womens rights #sex based rights #social justice #black women matter #lesbians deserve better #disability awareness #anti prostitution #rape culture #male privilege #male violence against women #protect girls #sisterhood

[zellaroonie]

Azula only stands for the lgbt

-ish. her brother is kinda homo n she doesn’t rlly like him so

#atla #avatar the last airbender #azula #atla fanart #atla azula #princess azula #lesbian azula #azula avatar #azula deserved better #ty lee #ty lee atla #ty lee avatar #mai atla #mai avatar #mai

[i-like-turkey]

I'm sure there's already a post going around, but I'm too pissed & pressed for time to look. tldr: NCIS: Hawaii got canceled. There's a petition up. We need signatures. So if you aren't in the fandom, but follow me for whatever reason, please consider taking 2 seconds to add your name to the list.

#queer folks deserve better #fuck cbs #i don't know what I'm gonna do without my useless lesbians

[thewarmthofequallyreturnedlove]

“You should come with me to the capitol, Polis will change the way you think about us.”

“You already have.”

#clexa #the 100 #lexa the 100 #lexa deserved better #lesbian #wlw #the 100 cw #relatable #introvert #love #poet #writer #dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia #tragic #doomed lovers

[lunejump]

we stay silly!! @nyancrimew now owns a page of my gay sketchbook (=sketchbook with gay flag on cover)

1 : ok tiny ref ; fluffy ; evil little grin ; two! ; small

2 : in your bloodstream

3 : what is this creature

4 : pose from my friend's cat (toad)

5 : omg i found it the rare creature

6 : at work

7 : would you invite her to ur island

+ here are some of the references I used

(my friends cat is the middle one, she's called toad and I love her)

#maia arson crimew #maia arson crimew art #cats #nofly list #holy fucking bingle #I wanted to learn how to draw cats better. no better way to do that than drawing the only lesbian robot microplastics hacker silly cat ever #maia is genuinely amazing to me. unapologetically silly. smart. a cat. what more can you ask. it deserves her place on the tumblr hall of #fame #anyways i hope she enjoys my wittle drawings #maiabingleart #lunart

[nixnight1]

Jegulus fighting

James: It's a text message

Regulus: and what does it say?

Regulus: Maybe "Hi Jamie! My daddy's got richer, and I got prettier. Let's make out!"

James: OK, let me see if I understand you.

Regulus: Let's see if you do

James: Because you and I date, I can't be friends with other girls?

Regulus: You can be friends with ugly girls

Regulus: But not girls who are gorgeous socialites who text messages you a hundred times a day!

James: You know what? Marls! Can you come here please?

Marlene:...What?

James: If you were my girlfriend...

Regulus: Oh! Great way to start the question.

James: Would you be all freaked out that I'm just friends with Lily Evans

Regulus: Who cares what she thinks?

Marlene: Honestly, I wouldn't love it

Regulus: I care what she thinks!

James: How could you say that, you don't even...

Marlene: You know...I really don't wanna be in the middle of this *tries to leave*

Regulus: No, you stay right here *grabs her arm*

Marlene: Noooo

James: You don't think a boyfriend should just trust his partner?

Marlene: Noo, I do.

Regulus: Get out of here Marlene

Marlene: I'd love to

James: Stay

Marlene: Aghhhh

Regulus: alright you know what?

James: tell me what

Marlene: No no don't tell him what

Regulus: We are done

Marlene: Regulus!

James: So you're breaking up with me

Marlene: No no no no no he's not

Regulus: Yeah I am *he starts to leave*

Marlene: Oh he is

James: You're being ridiculous!!!

Regulus: What do you care?? IM NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND ANYMORE!

#regulus black #regulus deserved better #jegulus #sirius black #starchaser #james potter #james x regulus #marlene mckinnon #lilys a lesbian but they dont know it yet #jealous regulus black #james potter loves regulus black #bisexual james potter #incorrect slytherin skittles quotes #slytherin skittles #incorrect marauders quotes #marauders era #the marauders #black brothers

[shaunashoochiebae]

ignore how they’re arguing in all of these..

#daisys whimsical words #lesbian #wlw #yellowjackets #yj #natalie scatorccio #lottie matthews #lottienat #my cutiepies!!! #they deserved better #so so much better #need to see more of them in season 3