person asking me about what i study:oh so why did you take some ancient greek classes?
me, thinking about my plan to go back in time to ancient lesbos and eat sappho out until she can’t remember her own name: y’know it’s just such a beautiful and historically important language
hate to rain on your parade here but sappho lived like 2500 years ago and as such she probably washed her pussy like approximately never
1. funnily enough, people in the ancient world were aware of hygiene as a concept
Preferred: “gay” (adj.); “gay man” or “lesbian” (n.); “gay person/people”
Please use gay or lesbian to describe people attracted to members of the same sex. Because of the clinical history of the word “homosexual,” it is aggressively used by anti-gay extremists to suggest that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered – notions discredited by the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association in the 1970s.
Please avoid using “homosexual” except in direct quotes. Please also avoid using “homosexual” as a style variation simply to avoid repeated use of the word “gay.” The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post restrict use of the term “homosexual”
ellen degeneres is turning 60 years old this week and i’m not sure how to process that information like…. i never knew how old she was and i never really thought about that fact that she has an age…. i feel like she just exists on this planet as an ageless entity
i know how hard it is to not know any other sapphic girls! i know how tempting it is to join a dating site just to meet other girls like you! but do not do it. these sites are for adults, and there are adults on these sites that will gladly take advantage of you.
people really, really need to stop putting the word ‘yuri’ on lists of “bad and socially harmful words you shouldn’t use” alongside yaoi. as if the emtymology or connotations of those words is in any way similar
I’ve seen people say that ‘yuri is problematic, you should say shoujo-ai instead’ and i’m begging you to please, please reconsider your position there
please
yaoi: coined by doujinshi circles populated by fujoshis and refers exclusively to pornographic content. literally means “no point, no meaning”
yuri: coined by the lgbt community in Japan. refers to any kind of romantic or sexual intimacy between women, explicit or not. literally means “lily”
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