It’s not JUST straight fantasy, necessarily. Lesbian and bi women can enjoy pretty women together too. The male gaze is the issue far more than the attractiveness level of the participants (though I too would love to see wider ranges of women).

There’s no such thing as a TERF.

You can be asexual and gay, or asexual and bi, or asexual and straight. The latter designations are what makes someone part of the LGBT community, not the former.

No. LGBT. Period. The entire purpose is to identify people who experience oppression based on same-sex attraction (the T was originally included for transexuals who were understood to be homosexual). Anyone who does not fall under one of those letters is not part of the community. Asexual but romantically attracted to…

Trans women/men are trans women/men. That’s what the trans means.

Sex is not assigned at birth, it is observed at birth. AMAB and AFAB are terms that are intended to apply to intersex people. 

No. It’s a category some people have decided applies to others.

Nope.

Don’t buy the crap natureslayer is selling. The acronym’s entire and sole purpose is to identify people who experience oppression for same-sex attraction. This “gender and romantic minority” business only renders that categorization pointless and undermines its purpose. LGBT has a real and distinct purpose; it’s not a…

Right, you can frame it as people being afraid of and resistant to change all you want, but you’re advocating for a radical restructuring of the concept of LGBT, one that utterly destroys the actual purpose of it as a categorization, and people have every reason to object to that.

Do they experience oppression because of same sex attraction? No? Well then that’s something different, isn’t it.

Child. No. Not at all. Not even a little.

Jesus, no. How can “gender minority” even be defined in any reasonable way, let alone in the context of people who experience same-sex oppression?

“Queer” is also considered a slur by many people and has a very loaded history.

Which is where things are going off the rails. The community isn’t about inclusion, it’s about advocacy and liberation for people who experience same-sex attraction. I’ve seen multiple people insist that anyone who isn’t “mainstream” belongs in the community. No. No they don’t.

Is this really a sentiment worth expressing here? I see it all the time on articles like this and it really starts to come off as an almost back-handed silencing tactic, even though I doubt it’s intended to.

Fuck you, you’re repellent.

Unless those black women are Jewish, of course.

No. Ugh.