Language is complicated and messy. There's plenty to suggest that for the people that coined the term, they meant for gay to apply to all genders. Then a prominent group of gay women claimed the term lesbian as a specific type of gay woman.
We can argue that lesbian was a specific group of women, not meant to mean all gay women. However, because there's no equivalent 'male only' gay, over time their usage drifted to mean all homosexual men and all homosexual women respectively.
Since language is descriptive, not prescriptive, we can't say the new usage is wrong, just that it's different from what the terms used to mean.
I can't tell if there is a hidden joke about my other straight arm being really skinny because I only wank myself to sleep due to not having all the sex or maybe that's implied still anyway? Anywho, 💀
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Are the aces OK?
Probably, thanks for asking :3
What about the droid attack on the lesbians?
Go, I will. Good (platonic) relations with the sapphics, I have.
Probably not.
Source: am in Denmark and not invaded
Do you want to be invaded?
Not really, but thanks for offering!
One can Change that
True. Would be a pretty bad idea, though 🤷
They play the sun tonight so we will see
💪Straight women lol
Media will have us believe a lot of straight women have been with another woman at least once. I don't know if that's true...
Idk either, I can only speak about myself and I have never. Only dicks with dicks
👉👌👍
Hey im bisexual and I celebrate gay pride and yet I.....
Okay you might have a point.
Something something bi erasure
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
you have the power. come play with paper dolls. (Fossify Paint for android?)
I’m too lazy to write a full joke so I’m definitely too lazy to edit a meme
It's ok ^^ No one will force you to have fun or connect with other people. Sometimes being a puddle is the right option!
Aren’t lesbians gay as well? I thought it was a gender neutral term
I think 'Dudes' is being used as a gendered term for men in the meme
Yes
Language is complicated and messy. There's plenty to suggest that for the people that coined the term, they meant for gay to apply to all genders. Then a prominent group of gay women claimed the term lesbian as a specific type of gay woman.
We can argue that lesbian was a specific group of women, not meant to mean all gay women. However, because there's no equivalent 'male only' gay, over time their usage drifted to mean all homosexual men and all homosexual women respectively.
Since language is descriptive, not prescriptive, we can't say the new usage is wrong, just that it's different from what the terms used to mean.
Didn’t know that. I guess I only know the modern definition
Ace ppl who celebrate pride :3
Just to straighten everyone out, I'm heterosexual. ...
I use Arch btw
I can't tell if there is a hidden joke about my other straight arm being really skinny because I only wank myself to sleep due to not having all the sex or maybe that's implied still anyway? Anywho, 💀