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

Wow, that must have been.. annoying. Something I've been pondering for a while is the way people who wish to break with mainstream in one way appropriate and stereotype the experience and identity of people who are forced out of the mainstream due to another prejudice. I can imagine the separatists being all "Lesbianism is about making stand against male privilege!" and the actual lesbians going "No, it's about being attracted to women". This is something that's on my mind as a straight woman who reads and writes femslash.