#lesbophobia

[homunyas]

I think it's interesting that the people attacking lesbians under the guise of protecting trans women are the ones putting transmisogynistic slurs in my inbox

I'd pretend I'm shocked you keep forgetting that trans lesbians exist but we both know you can't handle the idea of any woman who isn't attracted to men, and regularly bully trans lesbians for calling out your disgusting behavior too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#txt #transmisogyny #lesbophobia

[violottie]

idiots on this dumbfuck website shouting about how "to be truly inclusive and totally queer and not terfy lesbians have to 'accept' that trans men can be lesbians too", whilst curbstomping all the lesbian trans women and transfems on their way to kick down our doors and spit said bullshit into our food....

huh... funny that, isn't it....

tldr. trans men cannot be and are not lesbians. theyre men. the fuck.

#lgbt #lesbian #lesbophobia #transmisogyny #transphobia #lgbtq

[anarkiddo]

man imagine posting this shit under a lesbian’s autobiography knowing that your review is A) one of few one star reviews B) will contribute in preventing people from reading it. this makes me dread publishing shit

#text post #discourse #photo post #lesbophobia

[linuxbian]

There these seemingly contradictory societal double binds that are used to enforce conformity.

Example: A Lesbian is told that "everyone is actually bi" while a bisexual woman is told to "pick a side". Seems contradictory but really they just want us to be straight lmao.

Another one: A woman who does not perform womanhood to society's standard is not a real woman vs. You can never change the gender you were born with. One is butchphobic/anti gnc women, the other is transphobic. Clearly both enforce transmisogyny.

The insidious thing is that these double binds also foster inter community division. Its easy to hear one side of these, for example: "everyone is a little bi" and assume that means bisexuality is more accepted. But on the other side bisexual people are getting the same shit.

None of these are contradictory when you realize that bigots simply don't want lgbtq+ to exist at all.

#Lesbophobia #transphobia #transmisogyny #Biphobia

[beefcake007]

I’m still mad about something that happened on tiktok last week and I want to do a post about it and explain an aspect of transphobia I’ve observed.

A cis user made a video asking that trans people share more banger music that they make, but clarified saying “by trans people, I mean trans women” because trans men only make that “sad ukulele” music. There was much discourse, he doubled down and said trans men couldn’t take a joke, other trans people threw the offended transmascs under the bus, or insisted that they can also make club music, yada yada.

I want to know if the queers who haven’t been queer as long as I have know that this exact drama was had with gays and lesbians. Do you know that some transphobia is repackaged homophobia and lesbophobia? I feel like that’s something we should be allowed to say and examine without someone shutting you down and insisting you’re conflating the gays and transes.

But yeah, for decades the joke has been that gay men are the fun flamboyant ones that make good art and dance music, and that lesbians are angry and dress ugly and make sad folk music. It’s pretty much an identical bias and resulting disrespectful jokes.

And it’s shit! I’m not going to let anyone, let alone a cis person, get away with transphobia just because it’s directed at trans men. It’s rude and harmful to devalue our art, and our art doesn’t need to be easily consumable to you. We’re allowed to be pissed and offended when you write us off, minimize the harm you’ve done, and exclude us from the conversation. It’s obvious when you only tolerate the queers who can serve you, and that you don’t actually care to listen or learn about our lives, struggles, and art.

#transphobia #anti transmasculinity #transgender #transmasc #trans man #tiktok #lesbophobia

[tiredyke]

#sensing a pattern #lesbian #wlw #transmisogyny #lesbophobia #neon talks #lgbt #top posts

[irlwakko]

I love all the dunking on James Somerton but I don’t think we’ve focused enough on all his lesbophobic rhetoric because the things he says are genuinely so astoundingly ahistorical and insensitive and it infuriates me that he was allowed to get away with it so long.

He literally said lesbians didn’t face police violence on the same scale as gay men when that’s just demonstrably untrue. Lesbians, ESPECIALLY butch, GNC, and trans lesbians, faced MASSIVE amounts of police violence AND STILL DO and if he gave a single shit about like. Women as people. Or even just LGBT history in general as he so proclaims to care about, he would know that. I’m going to start beating people to death with copies of Stone Butch Blues until they fucking listen

And I’d really love to know which fucking planet he lives on where lesbians apparently have all this great representation, and where we as lesbians are allowed to write our own stories, because I’m really not seeing that pretty much anywhere in mainstream media. I’m still seeing lesbians portrayed in stereotypical or fetishistic ways, and that’s when I see us portrayed at all. And yes cartoons are great and fine but there is so painfully little lesbian representation written by lesbians geared primarily towards adults.

But at this point, the wider community’s general lack of a reaction to lesbophobia in their ranks disappoints but doesn’t surprise me. It’s sad and somewhat astonishing that he’s escaped accountability for his lesbophobic comments up to this point, but again, not surprising. We need to stop letting our community, especially people like James Somerton who get held up as voices for the community, get away with lesbophobia.

#hbomberguy #james somerton #lesbophobia #this is just like a really poorly constructed rant and there’s prob people who have said this better than me #pastel's greatest hits

[dyke-on]

You can tell how much lesbians and trans men are ignored within the queer community when queerness is associated with pink and glitter. There's no room for us boring, dull, masculine queers, in fact we are traitors meanwhile straight women are "one of the girls"

#lesbophobia #transandrophobia #lgbt

[princessefemmelesbian]

Not to be rude but a lot of white lesbians on here will see an attractive white(and especially if they're skinny, conventionally attractive, cis, and feminine) woman and go "omg she's so pretty and gorgeous and elegant, gosh, why are women so beautiful! I want her to hold me and hug me and kiss me!" but the second you see an attractive non-white woman(especially if they are fat, trans, dark-skinned, or butch, but lbr y'all do this to femmes of color as well due to how masculinized we are), suddenly y'all's brains short-circuit and you don't know how to complement us without depriving us of our humanity because you still internalized the idea that woc are wild impure animals and so out comes the "omg I want her to step on me and choke me and slap me across the face and make me her slave!!!" and y'all think it's okay because you're making yourself "subservient" to us but really all you're doing is reinforcing harmful stereotypes of woc as more aggressive, sexual, violent, inhumane, and less feminine, sweet, loving, and/or gentle than white women, and you guys think it's a compliment but it's really fucking not and I'm here to tell you that being a lesbian doesn't invalidate your white privilege if you talk about and fetishize lesbian woc this way. 😡

#lesbian #lesbophobia #racism #misogynoir #masculinization of black women #butchphobia #femmephobia #fatphobia #transphobia #transmisogyny #trans #trans women #black lesbian #black femme lesbian #femme #femme lesbian #butch lesbian #white supremacy #op #white femininity

[museumofferedophelia]

This is actually hilarious because:

Wasps are not bees. They are both members of the Hymenoptera order, which also includes ants. You wouldn't say that an ant is a bee just because they're both members of the same order, so why would you argue that a wasp is a bee? Would you argue that a camel and a giraffe are the same species because they also share the same order (Artiodactyla)?

Out of the some 20,000 species of wasp, NONE produce honey. There is a genus called "Brachygasta" including 17 species that keep stores of nectar and honeydew in case of food shortages, but none produce honey. And certainly not from meat.

So yet again, you have a TRA blatantly lying in order to turn something into what it's not. "The wasp is right, and the bee relies on untrue myths to explain itself," is such bullshit.

Sadly, this post got something like 2,000 notes. People will blindly believe what a TRA says, especially if it's a lie constructed to undo a radfem point. So many logical fallacies.

Wasps are not bees. Men are not women.

#gender critical #lgb #radblr #radfem friendly #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #terfblr #dropthet #terf #feminism #terfsafe #womens rights #tra #transgender #lesbophobia #gender politics #homophobia #lesbian #sapphic #queer #wlw

[hard--headed--woman]

friendly reminder that it's okay and normal for lesbians to like breasts and ass and pussy, to find other women attractive, to look at women, to have sexual thoughts about women. you're not "like a man" for finding this woman on that pic attractive or for having a soft spot for boobs or anything. lesbianism is healthy and natural. stop shaming lesbians for having sexual desires

#radblr #lesbian #lgb #lgb community #homosexuality #female homosexuality #homophobia #lesbophobia #radical feminism safe

[homunyas]

I think the main thing it comes down to is: the LGBT community is full of rampant misogyny, but so many people think that because they're a minority, they're somehow less accountable to analyze their own behavior.

This is why lesbophobia is especially prevalent; it's the intersection of homophobia and misogyny. The same is also true of transmisogyny; the intersection of transphobia and misogyny.

So many people who consider themselves progressive will support lesbophobic or transmisogynistic concepts without so much as batting an eye. They think they've done the work already, I mean, you're LGBT! How could you have unchecked misogyny in your interactions with the world and others? Well, quite easily, as almost any lesbian or trans woman could tell you of our interactions with other LGBT people.

You all need to take a long, serious look at your behavior, and start actually listening to lesbians and trans women when we tell you things are harmful to us. Because right now, most of our issues remain incredibly insular, with only a small number of allies uplifting our voices.

#as always: non-lesbians should read through my lesbophobia tag #txt #lesbophobia #transmisogyny

[hadesoftheladies]

very insane to me how women lesbophobes can call "liking women a "man thing". like virtually no heterosexual men have liked women in the past 6,000 years. liking women, centering women, adoring women is a nearly exclusively woman thing to do.

lesbians invented liking women. apologize to the lesbians right now.

#lesbian #lesbophobia #liking women is a very woman thing to do #what part of liking women have you seen in male culture?? #what planet are you guys on??? #radblr

[junkdyke]

It's the way men blatantly and utterly do not respect wlw relationships. I went to a kickback last night with a girl i've dated previously. She wanted to go, but not alone because she wasn't sure what the vibes would be. So I took her, and there were 5 women there total, including the 2 of us, the rest a bunch of film bros. Most of the girls left early.

My date and I had our arms around each other most of the night. Hers clearly around my neck, mine clearly squeezing her waist, holding her around her stomach. But 2 of these men repeatedly flirted with and obviously hit on her, right in front of me while we are connected. Play fighting trying to touch her any way they can, taking pieces of the cookie she had, trying to corner her to look into her bag when she took some snacks. I literally had her hand in mine trying to pull her away, while she's uncomfortably trying to shy away from them. We were facing each other, both hands together talking, when one of the again comes up to rest his head on her. She was so clearly disinterested in general, and so clearly with me. But it didn't count, because they don't fucking acknowledge lesbians or female homosexuality as anything serious. She's bisexual, but the female attracted part of that is just for funsies, not real, it doesn't matter. She mentioned being queer so many times throughout the night. Yet at no point did they even ask or acknowledge our connection there.

I know this isn't anything new or groundbreaking, just documenting yet another instance. They're rarer for me now since I'm hardly ever around straight men like this, in this kind of environment. Lesbophobia in the form of disrespect, as if there's no way our connections are real or worth acknowledging. And this is why men trying to claim solidarity in love for women with lesbians will NEVER be fucking true, we do not love women the same, they don't even see us as equals. Had a man been holding her the way i was, they wouldn't dream of acting the way they did, unless they were looking to get knocked tf out. So anyway, I need to start knocking more men out.

#personal #mine #wlw #lesbian dating #anti men #lesbophobia

[tiredyke]

so many of y’all are too busy trying to define lesbianism as explicitly inclusive of men and making sure we’re nice and palatable to straight people and making people feel secure in the fact that anyone can still like men, even the dykes! that you straight up ignore or erase the very prominent part of lesbophobia that comes from us not liking men, and you talk over and ignore us whenever we talk about how isolating it is to not like men when everyone else around you does because it doesn’t fit your narrative that queer labels and identities are one-size-fits-all and the mere idea of lesbians existing shatters your ideal world where everyone has wiggle room in their sexuality. reinventing the “lesbians aren’t exclusive, there’s a man for everyone! they just need to find Mr Right” isn’t progressive just because you throw in a couple buzzwords that sound good and give people warm and fuzzies

#im so exhausted #like every day i have to deal with this bullshit i take another step closer to the grave #lesbophobia