stop me if this is just way off-base but i think people overestimate the extent to which women actually choose heterosexuality. men don’t ask you to opt in, they ascribe it to you by default. it becomes a passion in the true sense of the word—something that happens to you, not something you do. so for lesbians and bisexual women, not only are you declaring a type of attraction that is not supposed to exist, you are declaring attraction, period, and that’s partly why men react so violently to your being. you are asserting i think and i desire, but those statements were never supposed to be accessible to you.
Beauvoir and Wittig talk about this exactly
I literally did not know that women were CAPABLE of being attracted to each other until I was 15 I genuinely thought men and women had to be together and it was awful
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