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Sick of men denying the history and reality of female same sex attraction
I follow Benjamin Ryan on X and like his posts, and just saw this post about how non-binary identity is a modern conception. Of course, I agree with regards to the non-binary part.
https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/1888992093760086489
But in his argument, Ryan states that there is a long history of male homosexuality—implying that there is no comparable history of female same sex behavior and attraction. (Or that this isn't worth mentioning???) Of course, we all know that this isn't true at all. Women have often been written out of history entirely, but despite that there are numerous historical examples of female same sex behavior, going back to Sappho in ancient Greece. So we know that female same sex attraction has existed for a long time, although cultural definitions of lesbianism and bisexuality may be newer.
Perhaps Ryan read Michael Bailey's recent posts on Unherd and Reality's Last Stand, in which Bailey makes some perplexing conclusions about female homosexuality and bisexuality based on his highly questionable research.
(I have very serious questions about how reliable it is to insert a device that measures wetness and blood flow inside a woman's vagina and then measure her levels of arousal in response to various stimuli, especially if she's shown the stimuli one after the other. If you dump a big bucket of water on top of a wetness sensor, the device will indicate wetness, regardless of whether you keep dumping water on it. And even if you do take this deeply flawed quack research at face value, the papers actually point to some women being homosexual and the rest of women being on some level bisexual. But of course Bailey rejects those conclusions and instead leaps to questioning whether female homosexuality is innate rather than cultural, and whether women's sexual orientations are innate. Overall, extremely stupid, male-centric thinking.)
It really infuriates me that poorly designed studies like these along with female erasure from history seem to be pushing the culture—even among liberal GC people—to question whether female homosexuality and same sex attraction are real.