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it kills me when ppl write articles about “straight” women wanting to hook up w women and they cite all of this scientific research about sexuality being “flexible” and talk about how “labels aren’t necessary” and the kinsey fucking scale without even once mentioning that maybe, just maybe, women want to date and marry men exclusively – despite being attracted to other women – because society has demonized, punished, and persecuted lesbian and bisexual women for centuries

this cosmopolitan article interviewed a handful of straight women who privately engage in sex with other women (without telling their boyfriend/husband, obviously) and these women just gushed about how much they love women and having sex w/ women but only wanted to date and marry men, and it’s like… i feel for these women, because they’re probably not even remotely straight, and they know deep down that dating and marrying men is socially acceptable which is why they cling to it despite many of the women openly reviling their boyfriend/husband – but at the same time, how much damage does this do to lesbian and bisexual women who are out? i mean, if these women are so comfortable with this setup, good for them – but these articles about “straight” women marketed to other straight women has got to push other potentially non-straight women back into the closet. in these articles these women deliberately distance themselves from lesbians and bisexual women and often do not want to hook up with women who identify as such, and also clarify that they do not want to sleep with butch or trans lesbians because they’re “too much like men”, which they find unattractive lmao

and it’s weird because the author seemed to imply that like, times were changing and etc etc and people are “more heteroflexible” now – as though that’s liberal and progressive and pro-gay – instead of realizing that a lot of these shifts are due to changes in the climate of the LGBT community and the strides forward we’ve made, and that articles essentially saying “you can love and fuck women and still be straight” can’t possibly be that progressive when out LGBT women are still being systematically oppressed, beaten, murdered, and mocked by society.

things are changing, sure, but they aren’t changing so fast you can pretend like introducing the concept of being “heteroflexible” or basically closeted for life like some Fun Hot Lifestyle to potentially questioning bi/lesbian women and call it progressive. it’s not. it’s still regressive and it’s some weird attempt by straight people to seem liberal and open-minded while still bending over backwards to not care about LGBT women – potentially closeted, closeted, or out – at all

and like, not to mention compulsory heterosexuality and internalized homophobia – which are the root of many questioning women’s problems – are borne from the fact that society is inherently homophobic and that being a lesbian or bisexual woman is something straight and even questioning women subconsciously consider to be “inferior” or “weird”. being straight and having sex with women is cool and feminist, but actually “being” bisexual or a lesbian is weird. your family will be uncomfortable and awkward about it anyways and your friends will judge you and men will treat you really weirdly, so why even open that can of worms?

internalized homophobia causes closeted people to hate themselves and other bi & lesbian women while denying their identity, and externalized homophobia makes sure they’re too scared to question those norms

writing articles that essentially glorify being closeted because “straight” women say it’s cool isn’t helping either of these issues

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The Women Behind the ‘Alt-Right’

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“There are a lot of white women who buy into this movement, they’re just doing it in private,” said Kelly Baker, an author who specializes in gender and white extremist groups. “They’re not vocal, but they are supporters of the men in their lives who are.”    

I talked to a few alt-right supporters after the Charlottesville rally. All of them gave the same explanation for the protest’s missing women: biology. There is no official alt-right platform—members are generally anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and see themselves as defenders of the white race. Most also maintain that there are certain characteristics inherent to each gender. Men are risk-takers, multiple alt-right supporters told me. Women are nurturers. Risk-takers belong at nationally televised protests. Nurturers don’t.  

By and large, alt-right men don’t seem to be forcing these traditional gender roles on the women of their movement—the alt-right women are doing it themselves. The women share a profound disdain for the feminist movement, and are eager to claim the supportive, behind-the-scenes roles.

“As for female empowerment, there’s nothing that has made me feel more empowered in my life than supporting and being supported by a strong man,” Claudia Davenport, an alt-right activist, said in an interview with The Economist. “I think that men and women are better off when we stop fighting nature and allow our distinct identities to shine through.”

In our conversations, multiple alt-right supporters referred to the movement’s men as “protectors.”

“It’s not the role of women to protect the borders, the nation, or the family. So we do not expect this of women, nor do we find it strange that they are less represented in something that we view as an innately male occupation: guarding territory,” said Tara McCarthy, a female alt-right blogger.

the similarities between this article and the history of female nazis in hitler’s furies are chilling, i don’t know how else to describe it

The Women Behind the ‘Alt-Right’