Comments on: The Wonderful and Confusing World of Girlfags and Guydykes /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Sun, 31 May 2015 21:21:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: anon /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-34740 Sun, 31 May 2015 21:21:23 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-34740 what the fuck? this is the most disgusting thing ive read.

]]> By: TL /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32997 Fri, 01 May 2015 11:38:40 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32997 Gender is a spectrum. Sexuality is a spectrum. Do any of the haters commenting actually disagree with either of those statements?

I am a queer woman, and my girlfriend is, behaviorally, a Kinsey 5.5. One of her biggest kinks is the idea of straight sex, but she’s not bi-romantic in the least. Is there any reason for her to try to change who she is, or to hide it? Are the thought police coming for her next? Does the fact that we enjoy playing as gay men on occasion make us homophobes in addition to being queer women?

“There are more [genders and sexualities] in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

]]> By: Lil /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32923 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:10:15 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32923 Holy cow this article is so legitimately bad. I don’t care if she’s straight or not. This is still turning gay men and women into a fetish all while using incredibly disgusting slurs typically not belonging to the people trying to claim them. Not to mention that “girlfag” WAS COINED AS A JOKE. A JOKE. TO MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE LIKE THIS. Please burn this article.

]]> By: Dany Mitev /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32914 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 03:17:58 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32914 well this is by far the most disgusting thing i’ve read in my entire life

]]> By: April /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32868 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:41:55 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32868 This is so disgusting. There is no such thing as a “male lesbian,” that’s a straight man. And straight men who fetishize lesbians are gross. Lesbian sexuality DOES NOT include men IN ANY WAY. Women who have sex with both men and women are BISEXUAL. Stop being a homophobe.

]]> By: SNDGFGS /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32826 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:54:49 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32826 *italian chef voice* mamma mia, thats’a spicy discourse!

]]> By: Ja Dee /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32813 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:22:25 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32813 L, you said it perfectly. How are others who aren’t sexually oriented in the above way supposed to know why someone finds lesbian or gay sex attractive? Isn’t that the same as a straight person explaining to a gay or lesbian person why they shouldn’t be attracted to the same gender? It’s abhorrent to suggest that you know what another person’s sexual orientation is.

I feel like I cannot safely express my orientation here without one of these people attacking me after these regressive comments.

]]> By: Ja Dee /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32812 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:15:38 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32812 Lots of close-minded people here. Not only are you being bigoted by suggesting that straight people are “arrogant and oblivious” by nature of them being heterosexual, but you are also calling a bisexual women homophobic when this article suggests nothing of the sort whatsoever. While you are busy being offended over every little thing, even things that are far from being offensive, this woman is writing something far more progressive when it comes to sexual orientation than anything I’ve ever seen.

We’ve seen it throughout history though, the most progressive of people, who are too far ahead of their times, have always been attacked for one thing or another.

]]> By: L /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32808 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:09:47 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32808 I should clarify that it obviously is not just about fantasies but how you identify as well. It really seems as though no one commenting on the article read it or even looked at the author’s bio page (she is the author of the Ethical Slut, a fantastic book).

]]> By: L /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32794 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:07:59 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32794 Sweet baby jesus. How is this offensive? Different people have different fantasies. Lots (perhaps most?) of people fantasize about straight sex. Is that objectifying heterosexuals? If it is, does it matter? Are most people commenting here trying to police what others find sexy? You like what you like and I think this article resonates with many people. I know it did with me. Thanks for writing this article Janet.

]]> By: J /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32729 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:11:49 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32729 This is nasty homophobic garbage, I can’t believe this is considered progressive and “radically queer” in 2015.

]]> By: K /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32728 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:46:32 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32728 Just because she isn’t straight doesn’t mean this isn’t incredibly disgusting and homophobic. Which it is. I did read it, and it was vile garbage. It made me sick.

]]> By: reeealsubtle /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32725 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:06:46 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32725 A man who wants to fuck lesbian women is a heterosexual man, he is not any other gender, if people can ‘love other people regardless of gender’ and don’t have sexual orientations then why doesn’t conversion therapy work. Oh wait. Because sexuality is based on innate desire you drip

]]> By: J B /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32718 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:26:57 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32718 Every site should require a short reading comprehension quiz based on the text before people are allowed to comment. It’s obvious from the other comments that folks either haven’t read the piece, or are woefully unprepared to digest and comprehend written English.

]]> By: SN /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32716 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:16:06 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32716 She’s not straight.

]]> By: SN /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32715 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:15:34 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32715 Janet Hardy is a queer writer. I’m sorry you haven’t heard of her; you’re missing out on some great books.

]]> By: Leslie Meredith /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32714 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:05:06 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32714 I’m very surprised that anyone here thinks Janet Hardy is straight. Haven’t any of you ever read any of her books? She has spoken many times about her relationships with partners of more than one gender.

]]> By: anon /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32695 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:27:15 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32695 uhh no trust me we read the article and it went from bad to worse

]]> By: Bisexual and Abhorred /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32689 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 00:19:43 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32689 No, it’s absolute trash. Fetishizing gay and lesbian people does not make you queer. Using slurs directed at us in quirky terms so you can feel special does not make you queer. Objectifying us, acting like it’s not fetishization and disgusting because “all sex is objectification”, then pretending it’s somehow radical and deservedly queer is absolute bullshit. Making gay and lesbians out to be sticks in the mud for only being attracted to men/women when in reality THEY ARE ONLY ATTRACTED TO MEN/WOMEN is absolutely disgusting. Calling your bisexual husband “just gay enough” is absolutely disgusting. Especially men who apparently connect with lesbians in lesbian porn. Lesbians are uncomfortable with men’s attraction and it is so so so lesbophobic and disgusting to pretend that these men who direct their objectification at lesbians are somehow queer. This is homophobic, lesbophobic, biphobic, transphobic garbage and it makes me want to vomit. LGBQ people are abandoned, raped, murdered, fired, made fun of, and, nowadays, losing many human rights just for being attracted to the same gender as their own. Fetishizing people who are attracted to the same gender as their own and are not attracted to their fetishizers does not make you opressed. It does not give you radical queerness. Straight people who are not ace or trans pretending they have a place in this community is sickening enough without them being so absolutely homophobic.

]]> By: Amanda Jones /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32635 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:27:18 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32635 I think most of the comments above are by people who only read the headline but couldn’t be bothered to read the actual article. The article is clearly about people who love others regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

]]> By: mary /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32623 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:57:15 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32623 This is homophobic, biphobic, transphobic, and all-around disgusting. I am once again baffled by how arrogant and oblivious straight people can be.

]]> By: anon /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32550 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 00:56:38 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32550 who let a straight woman write an article on lgbt+ people holy shit

]]> By: anon /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32541 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 00:00:22 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32541 this is maybe the most homophobic thing i have ever seen…

]]> By: K /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32526 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:42:05 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32526 This is disgusting. Stop using slurs and stop forcing yourself in places you don’t belong just because you fetishize gay people. As a lesbian, I’m absolutely disgusted. You’re not welcome in our community.

]]> By: Anon /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32519 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 20:37:28 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32519 I think this is legitimately the worst thing I’ve ever read

]]> By: inspired ella /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32513 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:46:03 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32513 imagine hating gay people this much. i honestly don’t know how straight people can write stuff like this and not realize that they’re homophobes.

]]> By: Loreva /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32509 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:00:23 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32509 Homophobe.

]]> By: Rae /region/north_america/the-wonderful-and-confusing-world-of-girlfags-and-guydykes-99856/#comment-32508 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 18:58:09 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50326#comment-32508 Set this article on fire.

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