June 2011
19 posts
“Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life It is also a direct or indirect attack on ~male right of access to women But it is more than these, although we may first begin to perceive it as a form of nay-saying to patriarchy, an act or resistance It has of course included role playing, self-hatred, breakdown, alcoholism, suicide, and intrawoman violence; we romanticize at our peril what it means to love and act against the grain, and under heavy penalties; and lesbian existence has been lived (unlike, say, Jewish or Catholic existence) without access to any knowledge of a tradition, a continuity, a social underpinning The destruction of records and memorabilia and letters documenting the realities of lesbian existence must be taken very seriously as a means of keeping heterosexuality compulsory for women, since what has been kept from our knowledge is joy, sensuality, courage, and community, as well as guilt, self-betrayal, and pain.”
—Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Love = Love
Does anyone find it hypocritical that supposedly progressive people are slamming the TV show Sister Wives because…their marriage is “unnatural”, “illegal” and “sick”?
Have we learned nothing from the fight for gay marriage rights?
Equal marriage rights for all means…for ALL. As long as the relationship is consensual, what’s the damn problem? A man and a woman, two men, two women, a man and four women, a woman and four men…love is still love.
Just let it be.
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