Saying you're not a lesbian I'd you feel attraction to men isn't gatekeeping wtf!!!! It's protecting our sexuality! It's protecting actual lesbians from men telling them they "just haven't met the right man" or "there's surely one man you like, I'm sure I can be him".
You must be fucking privileged to have this sort of attitude!!!
LESBIANS HAVE NO FUCKING ATTRACTION TO MEN! FUCK OFF AND JUST BE BO AND STOP HARMING OUR COMMUNITY!!!
I am literally talking about being into cartoon characters, calm down, but thanks for proving my previously sarcastic point!
ETA: This is not in response to this anon, who is unhinged, but for anyone else who might be tempted to this kind of thinking: Yes, I’m technically a 5 on the Kinsey scale, I find male fictional characters attractive sometimes and I occasionally have non-sexual romantic interest in individual real men, but I have zero interest in actually dating or having sex with men, have never had sex with a man (yep, I’m a “gold star,” for those who care about that, not me) and only briefly dated one years ago before I figured out I was gay, who turned out to be gay himself. What the fuck other term am I supposed to use? Calling myself “bisexual” implies an interesting in doing stuff with men that I don’t have. Some of us live in the world and the label we use has an actual utility – indicating who we are and are not interested in dating/fucking – beyond just stupid-ass discourse online. Who do you think this level of picking nits actually helps? I am as annoyed as you are when women who actually date/fuck men call themselves “lesbians” (though I don’t attack them online because like, I have a life and other people’s sexuality journeys are profoundly not my business) and if I met the Magic Perfect Man ™ whom I actually wanted to date or fuck, I’d probably go “oops! guess I’m bisexual after all” and identify that way… but I haven’t, so how the fuck does it actually hurt you for me to use the “lesbian” label? Like, what material, real-world impact does this have on anyone other than myself? If anyone non-insane wants to actually answer this, I’m genuinely curious. And don’t pull some bullshit like “men will feel entitled to lesbians”: those men feel that way anyway, they feel entitled to straight and bi women who explicitly reject them, those men don’t know anything about intra-LGBTQ discousre online and no woman of any sexual orientation is ever responsible for men’s sexual violence. Be serious about this.
Thought experiment for anons: suppose there were a woman who had no interest in ever dating or having sex with another woman, but used to have a crush on Sailor Moon. Would you think it’s OK for that woman to call herself straight, or would you insist that she should call herself bisexual? My guess is that you would think it’s deceptive for her to call herself bi, since that would signal falsely to other women that she might be interested in dating them.
Why does the same logic not apply in this case? I would guess that there’s a purity standard that applies in the direction of gay but not het attraction… a one-drop rule for straightness, if you will. I don’t feel entirely qualified to speculate on the reasons for that, but I hope we can all agree it’s weird and messed up.
The episode where they go to the Kaylon planet is feeling oddly more Star Wars than Star Trek, with the epic/ ominous music during the landing sequence and pushing Isaac down a ramp on a floating stretcher that seemed meant to evoke Han Solo frozen carbonite in Cloud City.
I get that it was supposed to be a shocking reveal, but… a race of artificial beings doesn’t just come into existence out of nowhere. They’re *artificial*. Someone must have made them.
I’m also assuming that the name “Kaylons” is supposed to evoke the Cylons of Battlestar Galactica.
ive had it up to here with fictional gays being like “i love you and if all i can ever have is that knowledge it’s enough for me” we need more “i have been struck down by horny insanity and i beg you to fuck me once. i’ve had three smirnoff ices and i’m gonna be crazy now. we can pretend it didn’t happen i don’t give a shit just gimme daddy’s blunt instrument” it’s more realistic
parents are so crazy because they can say the most fucked up shit to you when your brain is forming and it sets the tone for your whole adult mind set and then they forget about it the next day
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like “posts that a gnome would make” or like “are you a phone”
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