The reason young lesbian culture is so cringe-

submitted by Shales123 from (self.Lesbians)

because genuine lesbian culture, like female only concerts, bars, communes, as well as lesbian rights activism, have been vilified so strongly that young lesbians have to instead be like- "I like astrology I'm such a lesbian. Because its insignificant and doesn't actually challenge male dominance or require lesbian liberation. Nobody's gonna call you a terf because you said you like astrology

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[–]barnarnas 22 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

RIP Lesbian spaces 😔

You absolutely hit the nail on the head. There's not a real sense of community unless you share ~quirky interests and it's frustrating to watch.

Terf as an insult has gained too much power, and I hate how genuinely afraid some lesbians are of it. I jokingly called my best friend a terf the other day and she visibly flinched :/ I know the rest of the LGB community is waking up to the consequences of giving up spaces, but lesbians have been impacted the most, and it's not as recent as some people think.

[–]reluctant_commenter 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm inclined to think young lesbian culture is cringe because people who aren't homosexual women keep invading it. Radfems... men in dresses... If you open up Tumblr and search tags with "lesbian" in it, they're massively dominated by men who say they're lesbians.

[–]Lesbianvodkaaunt 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’m a senior in college. As a freshly out, high school lesbian I remember being asked in detail what I would or wouldn’t do with a trans woman. Most of what I would call lesbians at my college self id as trans men or nb. I know over a hundred people here relatively well and yet I know less than 5 women who would call themselves lesbians, I can only say 2 besides myself for certain. Young “lesbian” culture is cringe because theres no young lesbians, ir at least, none willingly admitting to being lesbians. I know maybe 2-3 “non-binary lesbians”. Young lesbian culture doesn’t even exist because young women are living in fear of being accused of wrong think. You can’t even say that you like transwomen but wouldn’t fuck one, anything short of accepting dick into your life is an invitation for hate speech, because you’re a “terf”.

[–]oofreesouloo 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Lesbianism isn't "challenging male dominance nor requiring lesbian liberation", whatever that means. Lesbianism is centering women and not "not centering men". It's pretty simple, but so many people want to make this so simple concept so complicated lmao

[–]Shales123[S] 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lesbianism is about female homosexuality, nothing more nothing less.

But in order for lesbians to thrive, we need liberation. Lesbian liberation requires female only spaces. Female only spaces do in fact challenge male dominance

[–]oofreesouloo 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lmao, okay

[–]hufflepuff-poet 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This. All lesbian spaces are by definition female only spaces. For me, lesbian liberation would be the ability to date and live my life as easily as straight people, when it comes to exploring romantic and sexual relationships with other women; a plethora of lesbian spaces, out and proud lesbian women and access to all the social pros and cons of monogamous life.

Lesbian liberation is being able to love another woman without fear of social ostracization or harm(from the woke homophobes or the religious ones).

[–]Lizzythelezzo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hmmm, most of the lesbians in my region seem to be into stuff like camping and hiking. Maybe it depends a bit on your location? I don't see a lot of people into astrology and stuff in my area but YMMV.

[–]Shales123[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm referring to online culture