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gots8challenge prompt ➳ endgame

BAMBI-SEXUALITY: Physical interaction centered more about touching, kissing, and caressing than around genital sexuality. Not to be confused with bestiality, a very different concept.

the author of the article cites the term as being from “the 1989 Alyson Almanac‘s “Dictionary of Slang and Historical Terms””, even linking directly to the almanac on Amazon.com.

a quick Google search for Alyson Almanac turns up a complete PDF scan of the January-March 1994 edition of the Alyson Women’s Book Catalog which, besides being an interesting read in and of itself (cw: for explicit sexual content), includes an advertisement for the Alyson Almanac on page 10.

moreover, on the following page is the very “Dictionary of Slang and Historical Terms” cited in the Autostraddle article.

[ purple highlights added for emphasis, blurring added for explicit content. ]

noteworthy is that bambi-sexuality is listed with the same definition, word-for-word, as given in the Autostraddle article.

meaning that regardless of how prevalent the term was or was not the past, there is precedent for bambi-sexuality (or, in other words, “bambi lesbians”) being a thing at least as far back as 1994– if not further back into the late 80′s, as the Autostraddle writer and OP have stated.

also, you know, this post by @queerasfact.

Two school age kids: “Oh look at the big white puppy!”

Their mother: “Come here, let me explain something to you. That dog is a Service Dog. Whenever you see a dog in a store like this you can’t distract it cause it’s working.”

Two kids: “What do you mean he’s working?”

Mom: “He helps that girl. You know how at school your teacher tells you to be quiet so you don’t get distracted doing your work? It’s the same thing with that dog. You can’t distract him.”

Two kids: “What does he help her with?”

Mom: “That’s her business. Your business is to not distract him so he can work.”

Remember the one part in the ride where the pirates are auctioning off the women? And a bunch of the pirates are chanting “We wants the redhead!” and sure enough, there’s a gorgeous redhead getting auctioned off?

Well, luckily, Disney recently changed the scene. There are now no women getting auctioned off, and the redhead, since renamed Redd, is a pirate captain in her own right.

The reworked character has become so popular that she’s actually a walk around character that you can meet in the park.