How many lesbians do you know?

Unlike homosexuality, lesbianism cannot be diagnosed until the person has been out of college for five years.

I have one close friend who is a lesbian.

I can think of around a dozen or so that I know. A few from television news, some from politics, both Democrats and Republicans, and a large number with whom I worked at both the Red Cross and the YMCA.

Originally Posted by dopey

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Unlike homosexuality, lesbianism cannot be diagnosed until the person has been out of college for five years.

In general, I agree with you, but having attended some Women's Rugby games, I can assure you, these bitches were lifers.

Originally Posted by Bradford

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I can think of around a dozen or so that I know. A few from television news, some from politics, both Democrats and Republicans, and a large number with whom I worked at both the Red Cross and the YMCA.

This gets at my underlying inspiration for this thread, which I hope will not be inappropriately CEish for the General Chat forum. I think Gay-Baiting is precisely the wrong pander for social conservatives to make at this point in time. Unlike other disadvantaged subgroups who get scapegoated and used as fodder for wedge issues, gays are born all over the country, into every community. It's easy to get traction and votes opposing Affirmative Action and the NAACP in a very white, very conservative congressional district, but gayness is different. Just look at Lynne Cheney. "Protection of Marriage" has passed in every state it can reasonably be expected to, and barring some weird cataclysmic shift, it's not getting into the Constitution. Social conservatives should focus on abortion, where there is untapped sympathy for their cause, and leave Connemara be.

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

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Obviously, I've met some I like and some I don't. I will make this observation in response to your comment. Back in the day when we were regularly attending lesbian "events", I met a fair numer of women who seemed to have the attitude that because they were gay, they were unconventional, which made them rebels of a sort, which automatically proved they were cooler and more open-minded than everyone else (the rest of us must be uptight and narrow-minded, otherwise we'd be lesbians too, right?). I found this fairly prevalent (although of course not universal) attitude highly obnoxious.

I agree, and obviously I have some lesbian friends whom I like most of the time (just like all of my friends). One further problem I have with people in general is that I tend to be turned off by people who identify themselves more as group members than as individuals. This goes for any group. I have found this trait to be painfully strong in the SF lesbian community, much moreso than the gay male community. I find that I like a larger percentage of lesbians outside of San Francisco than inside.

Originally Posted by iammatt

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I have found this trait to be painfully strong in the SF lesbian community

I disagree. I find Conne and the board's other resident lesbians to be refreshingly non-militant.

Funnily enough, I don't know any. I just know girls who are willing to dip in the bouillabaisse from time to time.

I have a friend who used to live with a couple of lesbians. They were always making off with the cordless landline. One time he got fed up, so he marched into their bedroom, spotted the phone under the comforter, reached in and grabbed it. Only it wasn't the phone!

Considering that I also attended the aforementioned "famously gay-friendly Seven Sisters college," I know surprisingly few lesbians. Of course, if you'd asked me the same question when I was an undergrad, the answer would have been different. Maybe it has something to do with my current location....

I used a rather loose definition of "know", which was basically exchanging hello's and knowing their name as the minimum. I also kept it to true lesbians, not bi-experimenting college girls.

Originally Posted by iammatt

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One further problem I have with people in general is that I tend to be turned off by people who identify themselves more as group members than as individuals. This goes for any group.

errrm... aren't you the guy who, up until a few days ago, had a dancing elephant for an avatar?

Originally Posted by texas_jack

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... How could you know 100 lesbians?
Maybe it's become a common way of politely turning a guy down?

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

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I have a friend who used to live with a couple of lesbians. They were always making off with the cordless landline. One time he got fed up, so he marched into their bedroom, spotted the phone under the comforter, reached in and grabbed it. Only it wasn't the phone!

That may have been better than if it had been the phone...

I've met at least three lesbians over the past few days (all from NYC, shockingly). I know probably 10 or so.

none that would consent to a threesome with me... and heck thats what matters!

Originally Posted by Connemara

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I've met at least three lesbians over the past few days (all from NYC, shockingly). I know probably 10 or so.
Sometimes, they just tell you they're lesbian because it is easier.