Jesus really said this

this is dope

Hello! My name is Leigh, and I am a butch lesbian. For a while now, I’ve been planning on chronicling my experience and the experience of other butches into a coherent, cohesive study into our experiences and how they differ from that of other lesbians and members of the LGBT community. 

This is how I’m beginning to do so. It is a 10 question multiple choice survey about how your butchness affects how other members of the LGBT community, as well as cishets perceive you as a butch lesbian. 

This is my first attempt at gathering preliminary data, and it will hopefully go towards a more in-depth study on the experience of a butch lesbian, and eventually a book. 

If you are a butch lesbian (trans butch lesbians are welcome as always), please consider filling out this 5-minute survey on your experiences as a butch lesbian. Your answers will take me a long way towards bringing my goal of creating my collection of research on butch lesbians, their history, and their experience today, to fruition.

If you have any questions, please contact me at butchexpstudy@gmail.com

*anyone can reblog, but please only fill out the survey if you are a butch lesbian! Thank you. 

I already have 20 responses since posting last night and nearly half of them have given me detailed written responses thank you SO much for this i love u all ❤️

y’all: bisexuals are fake bc they usually end up in m/f relationships

me, an intellectual: it’s easier and statistically more likely to find a straight person who is attracted to you and compatible with you than to find a lgb+ person who is, especially in small towns. not to mention the fact that a big part of lg community won’t date us, because they are biphobic. also a huge number of bis are nb, so m/f rhetoric doesn’t even fit us. also. there is nothing wrong with bis being in a m/f relationship if it’s healthy. also. stop being biphobic it’s 2017 when will this stop

A-fucking-men

yeah the relationship a bi person ends up in doesnt make them fake like obviously that’s bullshit but do we really need positivity posts like “it’s OKAY for a BOY to date a GIRL” like yeah Emmerson.. it’s expected

fav part is the implication that lesbians and gay men hate bi people more than straight people do 

This isn’t about it “being ok for a boy to date a girl”. This is about people using m/f relationships to discredit bisexuals as “proof” that someone isn’t actually bi or that bisexuality doesn’t exist. Trying to reduce this to someone trying to justify m/f relationships is dismissive.

On top of that, I don’t think anyone is saying that monosexuals hate bis more than straights. Stop boiling OP’s words down to these incorrect statements. Jesus christ bi people can’t even COMPLAIN

Im bi and my comment was a complaint so riddle me that

oh jeez i released a new album! listen to it and also buy it or one of the songs if you want to maybe :^) 

a very scared abandoned dog was saved off of the streets and regained her happiness

via @crankdatholly

this sounds like some anti sjw stuff but some of the “discourse” i see up here are really just people taking instances of things that are yes wrong but only occur on a micro level and don’t put you in life threatening danger and trying to turn them into some sort of systematic oppression when….it’s not.

Basically, I was referring to ‘biphobia’. I’ve seen how this issue has unfolded on tumblr for a while and it’s always really shocking to me how it’s not used in context where biphobia is describing how bi people are exposed to homophobia (which still wouldn’t make sense to use a whole other term but w/e)  but rather used as tool describe erasure. Now….I’m not saying that it’s okay that other queer ppl say like “i wouldn’t date a bisexual” or “youre faking cuz you date men/women sometimes” but what I am saying is that people have been trying to turn that sort of lateral oppression into something that’s systematic and actually endangering and impacts you significantly on a macro scale. The fact that i’ve had to see posts that boil down to “let men date women!!!!” and vice versa is ridiculous. You are not going to face any sort of harassment that is going to put you in danger because you are engaging in societies standards of what youre ‘supposed’ to be doing i.e a man dating a woman. No one is making laws that discriminate against bisexuals who engage in m/f relationships. You are not going to walk down the street and get assaulted because youre a man holding hands with a woman or w/e on the basis that you are a man holding hands with a woman. Also, people have used this as a tool to safely vent their disgust of gay and lesbian people under the guise of activism and that’s really……odd to me. Again….I’m not saying that yall should be told you aren’t part of the lgbt community because of your relationship status.

All of this is just really unnerving and honestly really extra