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Irene The Insomniac's avatar

I think it's really quite simple: love you who want to love, modesty/privacy are not bad things (most people really don't want to know about their neighbours sex life regardless of what it is) and most importantly, leave the kids alone. Children deserve to be children free from adult sexuality.

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Ollie Parks's avatar

I'll be back with more comments after I have gathered my thoughts, but I didn't want that to delay my thanking you for writing the perfect Gay Pride essay for the year 2024.

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Bev Jo's avatar

I think the trans cult and their supporters are actually not fringe at all but very reactionary and trying to erase Lesbians and enforce girls and women into worshipping males, as most men and het women always have done. Lesbians are the biggest threat to patriarchy and it seems like men know that more than even most Lesbians or women. I remember the button from 1973 that said Lesbianism is Revolution. The leftist/socialist Lesbians I knew then (who were also very class-privileged, no surprise) really didn't not like that, but I always thought it was true in that I believe most females would choose to love our own kind with a passion if it wasn't for the massive price most would pay, including losing family, money, status, etc., and that would certainly be a revolution like the world has never seen. No need to become an academic or leftist, etc., but just follow our hearts with courage. I saw girls going in that direction in our girls only high schools, but then start pushing themselves to be obsessed with boys (which never looked remotedly natural) when they were going to go into the "real" world. But some of us never grew up and continued saying no to all the female-hating and Lesbian-hating rules.

I don't believe in "sexual orientation," but I remember when suddenly that term was everywhere used to explain us, and certainly helped gay men in their push to demand equal rights since they said they couldn't help being gay. Lesbians rarely said that until it became used for us too. Women all around us growing up chose to be het and didn't seem very happy about it. When Lesbian Feminists made it easier to be Lesbians, het women came out in droves. Some went back when it became harder and they wanted to be "taken care of" by a man with money. We could not be more different from men, including gay men.

I also don't believe "gender dysphoria" is real, but is another convenient term used to guilt-trip and manipulate. What girl in her right mind would not want all the privileges and protections that boys get, from knowing they will make way more money than most females ever will to getting automatic respect and being able to walk at night without being yelled at, grabbed, or worse? And for the males, dysphoria is their excuse for fetish, and invading Lesbian communities, and, they hope, our bodies. (I'm seeing an increase in girls being bullied into letting these men claiming to be Lesbians rape them so they won't be "oppressive" or "transphobic," even though trans isn't even real. It's horrific.)

Yes, you do look like a Lesbian and it's wonderful to see!

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Liesel's avatar

That's so sensible. It's hard to believe you'd still be called all the names, but you would.

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