Whenever people bring up shit like "in like 1977, a small subset of people called themselves bisexual lesbians," they miss the point that bisexual and lesbian both existed in entirely different contexts and had different meanings... for a group that loves to bully lesbians by claiming "words can change meanings, so we can change lesbian to include fucking men," they sure don't understand that both bisexual and lesbian have... changed meanings... to become separate identities with some overlaps in experience while still being mutually exclusive. To the benefit... of both lesbians and bisexuals.
Like both bisexuals and lesbians benefit from having specific terminology for their experiences, to express and respect boundaries and create expectations. There's a reason why we split off--and, yeah, sometimes it was fraught--but acting like it's regressive to want to respect that split and all the good it has brought is insane and, ultimately, biphobic and lesbophobic as well as spitting on our shared history.
And shows a lack of understanding of said history. I get it, you read a tumblr post in 2018 written by someone who skimmed a book once. Try again in forming a foundational knowledge because you fucked it up the first go around.
I do, really need to emphasize that it is biphobic as well as lesbophobic.
In part because I know some of you do not respect lesbians enough to care that you're hurting them, so I need to make you look to another group you're harming.
And in part because I know some of you do not care about bisexuals and see our identity as lesser, something that needs to be replaced or modified to make it worth identifying with. "Bisexual lesbian" is a word for a bisexual afraid to own their identity. Or perhaps a lesbian with comphet.
Either way, this is a "two innocent birds with one dumb ass stone" situation, so maybe stop throwing fucking stones.
