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iamkeri1 · 01-18-2012, 07:08 PM

I started thinking about this a couple of months ago. The church I belong to was having a discussion about changing our name from "Rainbow Promise" to, well, something else. I was on the side of keeping that name because gay folk could see the name and know they would find peers there. The other side wanted to change it because several of the members, closeted to one extreme or another (I am as well) felt uncomfortable with the revealing name. One said they had lost a job when it became known what church they attended. That sucks. We did end up changing the name, by the way, though I voted against it.

Then the other night I was searching online for music to listen to and I put in the key words "womens music", and just enjoyed the hell out of listening to women sing love songs to each other. In the middle of the evening, I started laughing to myself when I realized that what I had been wanting to listen to was LESBIAN music, not women's music.

Why don't we call it what it is? Can you think of other examples of this?
Smooches,
Keri

01-18-2012, 07:08 PM	#1
iamkeri1 Member How Do You Identify?: femme woman Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: solo Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central Florida Posts: 821 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 250 Thanked 1,944 Times in 584 Posts Rep Power: 14065934	Call it what it is. I started thinking about this a couple of months ago. The church I belong to was having a discussion about changing our name from "Rainbow Promise" to, well, something else. I was on the side of keeping that name because gay folk could see the name and know they would find peers there. The other side wanted to change it because several of the members, closeted to one extreme or another (I am as well) felt uncomfortable with the revealing name. One said they had lost a job when it became known what church they attended. That sucks. We did end up changing the name, by the way, though I voted against it. Then the other night I was searching online for music to listen to and I put in the key words "womens music", and just enjoyed the hell out of listening to women sing love songs to each other. In the middle of the evening, I started laughing to myself when I realized that what I had been wanting to listen to was LESBIAN music, not women's music. Why don't we call it what it is? Can you think of other examples of this? Smooches, Keri