@starstrucvk@lesbopolo ok, and that’s fine. i was more trying to explain why a lot of lesbians care about it. for many lesbians it’s about countering a long history of misogyny and homophobia
@lovevideovixen a small comfort: 5 years after the 1952 “i am a woman again” article, she was asked by an interviewer about a photo of a man and woman on her dresser. she replied “that’s my husband and that’s my wife.” so she at least partially embraced her queerness again at the end of her life
the us is great at football (soccer) and rugby. we won gold and bronze in them respectively at the 2024 olympics. or were you only talking about men’s sports?
@trashdracuIa i don’t think abraham presents as particularly gay here. i think he is simply embodying a type of straight guy that hasn’t existed since 1989
@evilsquirtlords@huhkooki well kristen stewart has explicitly referred to herself as a lesbian icon (see seth myers interview) even if she is bisexual. and doechii and cara delevigne came out as lesbians, so who else are you referring to because their aren’t that many lesbian celebrities?
@claire4heart anti-heroic vampires post-rice. most lesbian vampire novels and films depict her as a monster and a sexual predator. there is a lot of significance tied to lesbian reclamation of the lesbian vampire trope and i think it’s weird to police lesbians for making a claim on vampirism
@claire4heart also my problem to begin was the suggestion that ALL vampires are bisexual, when there is still much a massive amount of work in modern media where she is specifically depicted as a lesbian. the bisexual vamp trope becomes more common with the rise of
@claire4heart what constitutes a vampire and carmilla exemplifies that much better than those earlier text. it also like dracula has a lot more cultural capital given how many times it has been adapted to other mediums compared to say varney, or b of c, or thalaba
@claire4heart my point is less that Carmilla is a genuine origin point. there are monstrous bloodsucking women going very very far back. keat’s lamia is based on the grecian monster which is derived from Mesopotamian demon Lamashtu. but people now have a very specific idea about