I am tired of the MYTH that lesbians were not persecuted in the Holocaust, that only gay men were.
Lesbians were persecuted in the Holocaust. The difference is that the Nazis were careful not to acknowledge the existence of lesbians, because independent female sexuality directly contradicted the fundamentals of nazi ideals of gender and sexuality.
Below I have linked an video featuring Jewish Lesbian feminist & filmmaker Barbara Hammer as she interviews holocaust scholar Johanna Reutter. They discuss how lesbians were persecuted in the Holocaust, despite how many claim that "the nazis didn't persecute lesbians". That is quite literally nazi propaganda.
Lesbians were arrested and sent to concentration camps using other crimes beside homosexuality, such as being labeled as "asocial" (a catch-all nazi category for multiple different persecuted groups, which is where the inverted black triangle on the Labrys flag comes from, a reclamation of a tool used to harm), or they were labeled as communists, drug-addicts, prostitutes, etc, just so they wouldn't acknowledge lesbianism, just so women wouldn't get any ideas of the mere existence of female homosexuals. AKA: this is the origin of LESBIAN ERASURE. Lesbian erasure is, at its very origins, FASCIST!
Nazi ideology believed that all men were virile, inherently sexual beings, while women were likened to absent-minded holes that were meant to take it and reproduce. The idea that women had their own independent sexual desires–– especially desires independent of MEN–– directly contradicted Nazi ideology regarding human sexuality. It was permitted to acknowledge homosexual men, as long as that acknowledgement entailed the criminalization and discouragement male homosexuality.
The existence of male homosexuality didn't contradict the Nazi ideals on human sexuality. Concurrently, acknowledging the existence of lesbians directly contradicted those ideals. This is why the Nazis were careful not to acknowledge female homosexuality as a crime in the same way they acknowledged male homosexuality as a crime. It showed the cracks within their ideological foundation.
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@lunelight to this day I will never understand how a show this gay managed to get 5 seasons or what straight people get out of watching it. it's lowk a miracle
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okay actually Im gonna need some help translating this because the subtitles are poorly translated and don't convey the weight of these women's words.....
@ladielabrys2 I don't tell other women not to shave, but I don't and I feel the same way since I have dark blonde hairs on my legs (they're visible, but not very. But I just hope I can be part of the solution by being one example of a woman with visible body hair.
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@lez_scum my hot take is I think it's fine if people wear sweatpants to work as long as the sweatpants are clean and not full of holes and the person wearing them showers regularly. if you're appropriately dressed for the climate and ready to do the job safely, let's go.
@lez_scum kills me a little bit that asking female artists to be separatism-pilled is too big an ask 😔 I'm always thinking, 'how can I find a woman to help me with this thing?' but it doesn't occur to most people
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listening to this ep about pride from an older lesbian was helpful to adjust my perspective a bit though. pride may suck but the world's gotten better for lesbians since it first started.