{"id":1339,"date":"2005-06-11T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2005-06-11T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T17:12:00","slug":"thoughts-on-lesbian-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"thoughts on lesbian cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

made an intriguing post<\/a>. And I want to get input from my subscribers and friends on this one: lesbian culture. What is it? Does it even exist? Why does the ‘l’ always come after the ‘g’ in glbt? <\/p>\n

As I was boiling water for my pre-packaged couscous it occurred to me that another perspective on this could be that gay men are more herd animals than lesbians. That of course led to the question of why. The money thing does seem like a likely explanation. The idea of culture being defined by mass marketers is pretty sad, but may be more accurate than I like to think about. <\/p>\n

I guess my point is to question the value of a unifying culture for homos. Alot of the same resources that define the common experiences of gay, american, men of at least the middle class are also available to lesbians. There is a lesbian floor on gay.com, is it much used? If not, is that actually a bad thing? There are lesbian bars, but I hear they are fewer, don’t get as much business, comparatively speaking, and are generally less successful than gay bars. That speaks to me of the supply of lesbian bars exceeding the demand. I guess I’m asking what it is about the gay cultures (for conveniences sake, we could talk about geek, bear, drug, gym bunny, bar, and drag subcultures) that is so great? <\/p>\n

I have lesbian stereotypes, though I have no idea if they are valuable descriptive groupings, let alone if they cluster into communities: lipstick, earth mother, diesel dyke, punkette, angry activist. To me those all imply a way of being, but not a way of being together. Comparing that with my conceptions of the gay male communities formed out of the cultures I listed above, I have at least as much of an association of common activies, or communication techniques as I do for descriptive elements of the stereotypes in the gay male categories. Is this because I don’t know dick about lesbian culture (no pun intended) or is it that there are lotsa lesbians who identify with these categories, but don’t congregate, because they don’t feel the urge to congregate, or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

made an intriguing post. And I want to get input from my subscribers and friends on this one: lesbian culture. What is it? Does it even exist? Why does the ‘l’ always come after the ‘g’ in glbt? As I was boiling water for my pre-packaged couscous it occurred to me that another perspective on … Continue reading “thoughts on lesbian cultures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}