pegsephone:

pegsephone:

i think one of the reasons everyone keeps making stupid fucking posts about the London attack against the two women is because y’all forgot real life exists

y’all forgot that other people don’t care about the differences between lesbians and bi women. y’all were so busying arguing about monosexual privilege and het-passing/straight-adjacent or whatever the fuck privilege that you forgot we’re basically the same in the eyes of non-lgbt people

It wouldn’t have made a difference if both women had actually been lesbians. It wouldn’t have made a difference if both of the women had been bisexual. The reason behind the assault would have been the same: love between two women has been so fetishized and objectified that the men on the bus felt it was their right to force these women to play out their fantasy.

Lesbians and bi women alike suffer from attacks like this. Painting it as an attack against a specific label and not our community as a whole is not how we move on from this. It’s not how we grow.

“Bi women shouldn’t say xyz about this attack” “lesbians need to remember xyz”. Maybe you all need to take a step back and realize this isn’t weird online discourse. Enough.

so a radfem/terf was just on this post so one important thing to add:

The bisexual woman, Chris, who was injured in the assault specifically stated that we should focus on uplifting the most vulnerable of our community, including women of color and trans women AND she donated to charities that aid trans folk.

You can’t claim to care about the violence wlw face while excluding trans lesbians and trans bisexual women.