:: those lesbian separatists(*) who believe (a) all men are evil and (b) all women in heterosexual relationships are traitors to the feminist cause. ::
Such position is fairly disrepectful of bisexual women, transwomen, transmen, lesbians who are raising male children, and a number of other queer folk, including those queers who experience multiple oppressions and who see fit to join cause with men who share their non-queer oppressions. (But I'm sure nothing in this paragraph is news to you.)
What may be news to you is that, not all of these "lesbian separatists" may even be actual lesbians -- there are a number of straight "feminists" out there who appropriated lesbian sexuality as a cog for their own warped ideas of utopia. I'm not sure how bad the situation is currently -- lesbian separatists are not my social circle -- but a generation back there was a lot of trouble with straight feminists calling themselves lesbians, taking over lesbian spaces, and then attempting to police actual lesbian sexuality. I know leatherdykes who have physically recoiled from me when I told them I was a feminist (and who then spent a while thereafter regarding me with open distrust), because the feminist appropriation of lesbianism was so painful and harmful, and said leatherdyke I was talking to was still carrying the wounds.
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Such position is fairly disrepectful of bisexual women, transwomen, transmen, lesbians who are raising male children, and a number of other queer folk, including those queers who experience multiple oppressions and who see fit to join cause with men who share their non-queer oppressions. (But I'm sure nothing in this paragraph is news to you.)
What may be news to you is that, not all of these "lesbian separatists" may even be actual lesbians -- there are a number of straight "feminists" out there who appropriated lesbian sexuality as a cog for their own warped ideas of utopia. I'm not sure how bad the situation is currently -- lesbian separatists are not my social circle -- but a generation back there was a lot of trouble with straight feminists calling themselves lesbians, taking over lesbian spaces, and then attempting to police actual lesbian sexuality. I know leatherdykes who have physically recoiled from me when I told them I was a feminist (and who then spent a while thereafter regarding me with open distrust), because the feminist appropriation of lesbianism was so painful and harmful, and said leatherdyke I was talking to was still carrying the wounds.