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Regarding Lesbians
I work at a hardware store. Naturally, this means I get to meet quite a few lesbians and very few gayboys. ^^; Although there was this one pair that I'm pretty sure was...
Anyway, today I saw three lesbian couples, one of them I found to my surprise contained a lady I work with. She introduced me to "her sweetheart", Sandy. It was so cute. <3 They were picking out yard lights. ^_^
What continues to baffle me, though, is one of the other pairs I saw. I really, really don't understand why some lesbians choose to look like boys. I thought she was a boy until she said something. @_@ I mean, the point of being a lesbian is that you like girls... so, er, why would you want to look like a boy? Unless your partner was bi, I guess? Best of both worlds or something?
And I don't mean casual wear either, cause girls can wear casual/grunge/grubbies and still look like girls. No, this was men's haircut, men's shirt, men's pants, may-as-well-have-been-a-man.
*still baffled*
Anyway, today I saw three lesbian couples, one of them I found to my surprise contained a lady I work with. She introduced me to "her sweetheart", Sandy. It was so cute. <3 They were picking out yard lights. ^_^
What continues to baffle me, though, is one of the other pairs I saw. I really, really don't understand why some lesbians choose to look like boys. I thought she was a boy until she said something. @_@ I mean, the point of being a lesbian is that you like girls... so, er, why would you want to look like a boy? Unless your partner was bi, I guess? Best of both worlds or something?
And I don't mean casual wear either, cause girls can wear casual/grunge/grubbies and still look like girls. No, this was men's haircut, men's shirt, men's pants, may-as-well-have-been-a-man.
*still baffled*
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"Biology. Straight-up biology. In the likely event that being gay is a chemical thing, many lesbians have been shown to have higher levels of testosterone, or even develop hormone disorders later in life. It makes "looking like a boy" less a want and more a can't help it.
Additionally, many naturally effeminate lesbians are unsure of their culture. The stereotypes painted on gays can ensure someone with homosexual feelings might be scared "no one will believe them unless they look the [stereotype] part." So they change.
One theory would be yes, male/female is natural--it's how the human species reproduces, and we have yet to evolve past our basic biology insisting we continue to reproduce. If the body recognized that girl <3 girl, then possibly it'd want to change one of the girls to boy in a fight to reproduce, so "hi you can has more testosterone!"
Same goes for the trend of effeminate gay males--it's not the stereotype it seems, but it does happen that the hormones are just strange."
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