lesbianvenom:

sluttyfart:

lesbianvenom:

i read an article about how straight women using the term girlfriend makes it really difficult for the rest of us and all the comments are straight women complaining and telling us to just ask girls straight up if they’re into women, as if that couldn’t get us killed or the shit beaten out of us, but do go on, straight women, about how hard it is for you to choose your language a little more considerately

and it goes the other way too when you’re trying to make reference to your partner and the other person just assumes you’re talking about a platonic friend. why wouldn’t you just say friend

I mean this post was about women but uh ok sure

So it is difficult to figure our if women are straight and just have friends who are ladies when they use the term girlfriend for their bffs, but also a difficulty when a woman is trying to convey that she has a committed wlw relationship because too many people think she’s just talking about one of her friends.  I think the op covered both instances, but the second part was trying to emphasize the latter. In writing ‘girl friend’ should be friend who is a girl and ‘girlfriend’ should be a dating relationship, but as language evolves that seems to have fallen out of favor. Besides, it does nothing to help spoken language. So seriously, straight people, stop unnecessarily specifying the gender of your friends! That will probably be clear in the rest of your sentence, anyway. Leave girlfriend for those of us that have them!