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So THAT'S what I was thinking of.

Sexes do exist, but they exist as a broad continuum of developmental traits, not as essential personal characteristics. Diseases are not reacting to your sex, but rather to specific sex-linked characteristics. It's a fine distinction, but it matters to some people. I agree that the word "gender" is used wrongly in the…

Ha, they probably just say they are Greek, like I would say, when abroad, that I am an American, rather than that I am a New Yorker. I do wonder how many languages refer to the island to identify female homosexuality, though. I know for sure at least English, German, and most (probably all, considering) of the Romance…

Well, I don't think one comes up with words so much as finds them suddenly in use. "Sapphic" is really the same euphemism as "Lesbian" and I don't think it would help (plus, people associate it with the website Sapphic Erotica). "Queer" is also a euphemism and a reclaiming and is riddled with problems of its own, but…

Agreed.

I like to think "Lesbian" is going out of style, honestly. My sexuality has not changed, but this label has, at least for me, lost its usefulness. We don't have a lot of good words to replace it (I have, like a lot of people, simply opted for "queer"), but it is just... Not a great word. For one thing, it is a…

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