[ SECRET POST #1726 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1726 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 240 secrets from Secret Submission Post #247.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - omgiknowthem ], [ 0 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

People assume women are lesbians if they have short hair? Seriously? I mean, I see women with short hair all over the place and I doubt that they're all lesbians. (It would be pretty cool if they were, and this is Los Angeles, but... still, no.)

(ETA: I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I just honestly didn't know that.)

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

It happens. Calling a woman lesbian is often used as an insult by sexist homophobes against women who aren't traditionally attractive or who venture outside gender norms. It gets used against female children all the time.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that definitely happens. In fact it happened to me a lot in junior high, though I can't remember how long my hair was in those days.

I was thinking more of people seriously thinking someone is a lesbian just because of hair length, than of someone just being an insulting homophobe who knows nothing about lesbians anyway. If that makes any sense.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think sometimes social environment must play some important part, at least when the mislabeling is done as an insult rather than a benign mistake. In my crappy junior high I had short hair and got called a lesbian and a boy all the time, then in my awesome high school I shaved half the hair off my head and don't recall being called a boy or a lesbian once.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I have short hair now and all anyone ever says is "You look better with short hair." But maybe at my age it's considered less of a radical decision to cut your hair short. (Apparently once you hit a certain age you are no longer allowed to wear your hair long, or something. Social rules are weird.)

[fenrischained.livejournal.com]

The one I find funniest (as a woman squarely in that category) is when people call you a lesbian and then five minutes later go "Uuuuurgh, why were you hugging [insert male friend here], you fancy him, don't you?"

And I am (or was, because it doesn't happen much now everyone knows I have a girlfriend) just like "....You don't actually know what a lesbian is, do you?"

[fenrischained.livejournal.com]

I got called a lesbian at school pretty much from the day I took scissors to my hair.

...of course, that has something to do with the fact that mine is a pretty homophobic area, and people were grasping for something to bully me about. And I did later come out as pansexual and am currently the only out LGBT that I know of in school. But as those "OMG LESBO DYKE WHO LIKES WOMAN WOULD YOU DARE?" comments came when I was dating a guy... yeah, the assumption definitely happens.

I just wanted to get that out there, because it was my first thought on seeing the secret.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Wow. People suck.

[fenrischained.livejournal.com]

But they do make themselves wonderfully easy to laugh at sometimes.

I also got accused of dating my twin because we held hands once when we were eleven. Now that was weird.