can I ask why you think bi women can reclaim dyke? you’d have to be the only lesbian I know who has that opinion

theroguefeminist:

cardozzza:

wlwellbutrin:

1. bi women do get called dyke by people who are fully aware they’re bi and not lesbians. cishets don’t really distinguish between women who affirm attraction to other women nearly as much as people on this site would lead you to believe

2. “lesbian” history has always included women we would now identify as bisexual. i have no problem with lesbian and bisexual becoming distinct identity labels, but that doesn’t mean we can deny bi women their own history

3. bi women are not my oppressors. they are in fact the only political group that shares my experience of dealing with both homophobia and misogyny; our differences in experience are not differences in possession of power. at the end of the day, they don’t have the power to enact social harm against me, and even if points 1 and 2 weren’t true, their reclamation of dyke really wouldn’t be the end of the world. i’m much more concerned with, say, ending corrective rape and addressing bi women’s astronomical rates of ipv than with nitpicking who’s allowed to use a slur that cishets throw at both of us anyway.

There’s so many lesbians who think that too lol… especially in real life where the opinion tends to be more ‘who cares, why not?’ than anything else.

This!