Monday, October 28, 2013

I'm not Gay OR Straight...I'm a Saphonic Poet/Catholic Nun

Jahnean has a new bumpber sticker on her WindStar...something political about gays and straights, that is embarrassing because it overlooks Lesbian Feminism...so typical of the masculinist Southern homo community.
from Wikipedia: The sexual revolution in the 1970s introduced the differentiation between identity and sexual behavior for women. Many women took advantage of their new social freedom to try new experiences. Women who previously identified as heterosexual tried sleeping with women, though many maintained their heterosexual identity. However, with the advent of second wave feminism, lesbian as a political identity grew to describe a social philosophy among women, often overshadowing sexual desire as a defining trait. A militant feminist organization named Radicalesbians published a manifesto in 1970 entitled "The Woman-Identified Woman" that declared "A lesbian is the rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion". Militant feminists expressed their disdain with an inherently sexist and patriarchal society, and concluded the most effective way to overcome sexism and attain the equality of women would be to deny men any power or pleasure from women. For women who subscribed to this philosophy—dubbing themselves lesbian-feminists—lesbian was a term chosen by women to describe any woman who dedicated her approach to social interaction and political motivation to the welfare of women. Sexual desire was not the defining characteristic of a lesbian-feminist, but rather her focus on politics. Independence from men as oppressors was a central tenet of lesbian-feminism, and many believers strove to separate themselves physically and economically from traditional male-centered culture. In the ideal society, named Lesbian Nation, "woman" and "lesbian" were interchangeable. In 1980, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich expanded upon the political meaning of lesbian by proposing a continuum of lesbian existence based on "woman-identified experience". All relationships between women, Rich proposed, have some lesbian element, regardless if they claim a lesbian identity: mothers and daughters, women who work together, and women who nurse each other, for example. Such a perception of women relating to each other connects them through time and across cultures, and Rich considered heterosexuality a condition forced upon women by men. Several years earlier, DOB founders Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon similarly relegated sexual acts as unnecessary in determining what a lesbian is, by providing their definition: "a woman whose primary erotic, psychological, emotional and social interest is in a member of her own sex, even though that interest may not be overtly expressed"

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:22 PM

    Happy Turkey Day. Hope you are well and happy.

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  2. dearly Anonymous...my landlady had the Catholics deliver a turkey dinner to me, a shut-in. gobble gobble. Sure do wish I knew who and where you are...as far as I know, you are my only follower of this, my oldest blog. Blessed Be, Sage

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  3. Anonymous5:00 AM

    I'm just someone that found your blogs after checking your profile from a comment you made on some other blog. It must have been 2 or 3 years ago now. There are 3 blogs of yours (do you have more?) that I have bookmarked and look in on from time to time. I'm a 61 year old woman tied down taking care of an elderly parent, so reading blogs is kind of my social life these days.

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  4. we are really blessed to have the internet in our old age. It's been the only opportunity I've ever had to write and be read by strangely familiar personalities on the web.

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