PG on Nostr: I wanted to join this new group because I miss having lesbians to socialise with. As ...

I wanted to join this new group because I miss having lesbians to socialise with. As a younger woman, I was part of a very vibrant community. Lots of bars, social and political groups, sports teams, ample dating opportunities. It was something I completely took for granted.

Back to this new group, and a glance at the inclusion policy didn't bode well, given “all sexual orientations and genders” were apparently welcome. How could that even be the case in a group designed for lesbians? The group had 7000 members in it. The very first post I saw was from a man named ‘Julie’, a man in a mini skirt, with a pantomime wig and fake breasts, taking a photo of himself in the toilet.

I decided to check out a few more profiles. In the first 50, there were 6 very similar-looking men – middle-aged, wearing wonky wigs, ghoulish make-up and bright pink nail varnish on huge sausage-finger hands. All these men were posing with simpering, weird, sexualised smiles. Scrolling down the messages, I saw that there was very little engagement. A meme here and a ‘hi, how is everyone doing’, there. One of these men asked if anyone lived in his part of the world and if they would like to meet up. He didn’t get a single response from 7,000 members. No shit.

When I look at these men, I see porn-addiction and fetishism. These men have wanted to get into lesbian spaces for decades. Up until 10 years ago, we just laughed and said no. Now we don’t laugh anymore because trans activism and gender ideology has given these men a license to trash all our spaces, creating bitter division between women. These deep wounds, often intergenerational and class-based, aren’t healing any time soon.

https://open.substack.com/pub/grahamlinehan/p/why-is-it-not-a-bigger-scandal-that?r=dfyz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false