@anders_von_hadern @vagina_museum The concept is often rooted in the idea that one’s gender is defined in relation to the object of one’s desire, so it can sometimes give the appearance of erasing the category of “lesbian” in that it classifies lesbians as “not-women” and therefore negates the concept of “woman-loving-woman”. But there have been a number of variants on the idea of “lesbians (or homosexuals in general) as third sex” across the ages, with different nuances. 2/2
@heatherrosejones @vagina_museum I know about lesbians not being women in the context of Monique Wittig, but vaguely only.
What I like about it is the context of lesbians not being heterosexual women (not to be had by men) and not being men (as in: lesbians are not behaving as predatory towards women as men do as some cliché tells).
Plus for my personal experience loving another not-woman lesbian is a completely different love on a mental and biological base than as a woman loving a woman. Which is why I definitely define as third sex lesbian.
Whereas woman loving women for me is not a gender/sex-question but a definition of sexual preference.
Does that make any sense? I am pretty sure I am not alone in this and there were several lesbians before me ;-)
@heatherrosejones @vagina_museum I know about lesbians not being women in the context of Monique Wittig, but vaguely only.
What I like about it is the context of lesbians not being heterosexual women (not to be had by men) and not being men (as in: lesbians are not behaving as predatory towards women as men do as some cliché tells).