The curious case of Pride vs the Lesbians: Part 2

Lesbianism: patriarchy's final frontier.

Read Part 1: In which it's all inclusion and aroha, but not for lesbians.

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Lesbianism is a women-only space. Lesbians carry it with them everywhere they go.

In societies that grant women the right to autonomy, and where homosexuality isn’t against the law, patriarchs, those men who wish to control women, have no legal power to overcome lesbianism. It’s infuriating to them that women can make and hold an entirely personal decision to exclude men from their intimate lives. With laws upholding lesbian rights, patriarchs resort to rape, social pressure, stigmatisation, ridicule and making or watching male-centric pornography that involves woman-on-women sex. Lesbianism diminished to a performance for the titillation of men.

In recent decades patriarchs have landed the ultimate coup. They have persuaded their long-time enemy, the progressive left, that every women’s space including the all-pernicious one—lesbianism—are unholy attacks on human rights.

I am by no means saying that every person caught up in gender ideology is motivated by the patriarchal urge to violate women’s spaces, but the net result is the same. The gormless go-alongs, the genuinely compassionate, the distressed parents, the biologically bewildered, the gender-soul worshippers, the self-hating teens and the nice-people-are-saying-it-so-it-must-be-true lot have been persuaded that this century’s civil rights movements involves standing on street corners yelling that men must be allowed to invade women’s spaces and those who would stop them are Nazis.

Transgender rights activists demand that society accepts that every man who calls himself a woman is literally a woman. They demand that such men are given access to all women-only spaces. Lesbianism is, under these rules, open to men. The patriarchs, those determined to deny women the rights to autonomy and who wish to control all aspects of women’s lives, win.

This patriarchal, anti-women, anti-lesbian wet dream is bad enough. That it has been lobbied for by organisations that were set up to protect women and rainbow rights is heartbreaking.

In New Zealand, there’s the homophobia of InsideOUT, the fall of the Ministry of Women, and this example (one of many) of National Council of Women’s persistent defence of male rights to violate female boundaries. And, of course, there’s the tragedy of Wellington Pride. Its mantra of celebrating Wellington rainbow whānau does not extend to the OG lesbians, those whose sexuality excludes males. Explicit declarations of female sexual independence are the most sinful of all things now, “anti-trans”. Hey, Wellington Pride, the patriarchy is very, very proud.

The members of Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa (LAVA) remain defiant. They don’t believe men can be either women or lesbians. They’ve been kicked out of Wellington Pride for saying such things. But the LAVA women think they too belong at Pride events. They’re taking Wellington Pride to the Human Rights Review Tribunal for discriminating against them because of their political opinion. In future issues, I’ll discuss other aspects of The curious case of Pride vs the Lesbians. Stay tuned!

No Pride without Lesbians
More about the case on LAVA’s dedicated page.

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