• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    Drag doesn’t believe in lesbians. Drag thinks they’re just gay women. There’s no reason gay women are special in a way that gay men and gay enbies aren’t. The only reason we have the word lesbian, is because sexist old men didn’t think women could really be gay. We should just get rid of the word and say gay woman instead.

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Bad take.

      You’re erasing the existence of Sappho, who was so gay for girls that the island she came from—the place heretofore unknown for anything—is now known for just how goddamn queer she was, and everyone who experiences sapphic love (hey, another word that got coined off of one poet’s fantastically omnipresent woman lust).

      Lesbians. Sapphic lesbians. From Lesbos. That Sappho started. Why?

      Girls pretty.