“Man-Hating Lesbians” or Women Who Eat Male Mediocrity for Breakfast?
One of the downsides to being a gay woman is that it’s nigh on impossible to hold a critical opinion of a man or male behaviour without someone pointing the finger at you and calling you a “man-hating lesbian.”
No matter how valid your criticism may be, you run the risk of being perceived as a cantankerous, haggard old crow who lives in a dark, bat-riddled cave, grinds bones, hexes the patriarchy, and hosts tea parties with her shrunken head collection.
Afriend of mine was delighted to tell me that a guy she recently went on a date with picked her up from her front door instead of texting her and telling her to come out to the car.
She was positively beaming and massively impressed by this gesture.
I was not.Oh come on, you man-hating lesbian”, she laughed.
While I know she said it in jest, it did get me thinking:
the bar is in hell.
does merely acknowledging this fact really make me a man-hating lesbian?
What does that even mean in this context?
I think the idea of the “man-hating lesbian” is o
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