think.

[think.]

unpopular opinion

[midfordes]

lesbians who refer to fictional characters or even celebrities as their husband/loves/boyfriend/babe etc, whether joking or in seriousness, or have male idols, are still lesbians and are 100% valid and real and are never doing it for attention stop gatekeeping lesbians let us have fun

[homojabi]

Also, this is often how compulsory heterosexuality manifests itself by having the lesbian in question be interested in “unavailable” men, which serves to protect them from ever having to date them or be with them because the attraction isn’t necessarily “genuine”.

[think.]

[angelica-so]

my girlfriend and i just got gal pal’d by animal crossing

[think.]

[boredpanda]

Two Companies Release Matching Packaging That Kiss On The Shelves, LGBT Japan Approves

[iminchargedealwithit]

bom exemplo de fazer algo diferente

[think.]

[sauntering-vaguely-downwards]

they gave a barbie an undercut

i can’t believe it, they made a lesbian barbie

[sauntering-vaguely-downwards]

lesbian barbie… at last…in this the year of our lord 2016

[wholockedthe-tardis]

Don’t just assume that this barbie is gay just because of outer appearances. All barbies are lesbians. All of them.

[think.]

[cstia]

dont block but i was actually a baloney shipper during season 1

[inzannie]

Explain to us the inner workings of a baloney shipper. 

[cstia]

[think.]

[vampireapologist]

   I just drove my uncle and myself to the hardware store, and he said to me “Molly, I want you to know that being Catholic doesn’t change anything. If you someday get married, your wife will be welcome in this family. Don’t ever think otherwise.”

  That is really nice, but I am not gay???

[vampireapologist]

I’M LAUGHING SO HARD. SPOILER ALERT 2012 ME; YOU’RE SUPER FRICKING GAY.

[think.]

[think.]

Heteronormativity vs. Compulsory Heterosexuality

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

People have been asking the difference between heteronormativity and compulsory heterosexuality. It boils down to this: heteronormativity is the assumption that straightness is normal. Compulsory heterosexuality is the violent conditioning we all go through to reach that point.

Think of it like a totalitarian state where it’s assumed that everyone loves the government and it’s rare for anyone to speak out against it. This is accomplished through a massive propaganda machine and the silencing of dissidents.

In this metaphor, heteronormativity is the assumption that everyone loves the totalitarian regime, and compulsory heterosexuality is the policy of propaganda and secret arrests that makes anyone fear to speak out against it.

(This metaphor possibly works even better for cisnormativity, but that’s an entirely different post.)

More literally, compulsory heterosexuality is the hate crimes, the discriminatory laws, the bullying, and finally, the fear - all the weapons that force us to pretend, even to ourselves, we’re het.

Heteronormativity is our invisibility - when we don’t show up in books or movies and everybody assumes you have a partner of a certain gender and we have to “come out” to get people to stop assuming we’re het.

[think.]

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Having subtextual queerness in a work, refusing to confirm the subtext or actively denying it, & then saying that makes it ‘balanced’ because ‘all interpretations are equal’, without acknowledging the role of heteronormativity?

Is basically like holding a formal debate competition, except one team gets megaphones & a month of prep work for the topic…

& the other team is only allowed to use interpretive dance.

[think.]

[im-a-feather-in-the-wind]

Why does everything have to be so freakin’ hetero? I can’t even force my way through the newest book by my absolute most favoritest author because it’s yet another story about girl meets boy and I’m just so bored. Is there no such thing as variety? I get that y’all are YA authors, but as a YA reader, I’d love to read some lesbian, gay, trans, ace, etc. stories. Is this too hard to comprehend? Is it really that hard to switch a gender or sexuality? 

But of course once you do that, then it become a gay book. Suddenly all the characters are, are queer. They no longer have adventures or have interests or have personalities outside of them being queer. Then of course one of the queer characters has to die, because that’s just a rule apparently. Obviously I’m just upset.