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Old 11-29-2009, 12:20 PM   #59
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Originally Posted by Arwen View Post
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I am one who has been overtly anti-lesbian because of past hurts. I do not id as a lesbian for a lot of reasons I have gone diarrhea-mouth over on the Dash site. I take ownership here and now of allowing those specific women (because Gods know it has not been all lesbians) who hurt me to color my view of the word lesbian.

And your last line? Me too! Seriously.

P.S. Did you come out in upstate NY? Because those were some hardcore dyke-feminists.

Arwen, thank you so much for acknowledging anti-lesbian stuff. I have not experienced this with you, ever, but having you acknowledge this affirms my experience with others, which is comforting to me. And, I came out in Minneapolis, but I think our community here in the late 70's and 80's was very similar to the upstate NY community. Thank god many of us finally found our perspective, and senses of humor, again.

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I think it may be that the competition is fear-based. Not just fear of butch as resource but fear of not being enough.

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This, to me, has nothing to do with butch-femme and everything to do with SuperId, Id, and Ego.

And, for what it's worth, I think this is very apropos to the dynamic and evolution of this thread.
I agree strongly. All of this, "I am not good enough" crap is part of the human condition that we play out in all environments in our lives at times. We have to work at acknowledging ourselves as whole and good all of our lives.

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Dear Bonne,

babygirl ethnographer on a mission.

You just fuckin' made my goddamned day.

I you like you don't know what,

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you are one of those pretty, put-together girls that I have been scared of all my life! You make my goddamned day when you say shit like this!

Last edited by bonne-maman; 11-29-2009 at 12:33 PM. Reason: to change goddmaned to goddamned, I do like goddmaned though, it evokes an image.
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