Lesbians Demand their Name Back
"Lesbians" aren't female homosexuals
>>"Residents of the beautiful Aegean Greek island of Lesbos are suing the
Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, a pressure group, in an effort
to reclaim their name, long besmirched as a word for female homosexuals.
"My sister can't say she is a Lesbian. Our geographical designation has
been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with
Lesbos," Dimitris Lambrou, one of the plaintiffs, told the Associated
Press. The Lesbians are seeking a court order to prevent the homosexuals
from usng their name.
Just as some American Indian groups object to sports teams using images
and words associated with Indians, so too the Lesbians resent the cultural
appropriation of their name, which is used to construct a whole modern
sexual self identification, part of the postmodernist "indentity politcs"
at the core of political correctness.
The word "lesbian," meaning a female homosexual, comes from the work of
Sappho (image, right), a poetess born on the island in the Seventh Century
BC. While agenda driven analysis of Sappho's poems has classified her as a
homosexual, this is far from clear from the texts, and there is debate
about whether Sappho was a "lesbian" in the sexual sense at all. Indeed,
one legend has Sappho meeting her end by jumping off a cliff in despair
over unrequited love for Phaon, a man!
(Needless to say, the Phaon legend is discounted by "lesbian" scholars and
their allies, on ideological grounds. It doesn't fit. Similarly,
homosexuality was viewed as a behavior, never as a lifestyle, not only in
the Classical world, but universally until only recently. The American
Psychological Association declassified it as a mental disorder, only after
intense pressure from homosexual activists, in 1973, after a vote.)
Looseness with the facts is a well-known and often hilarious hallmark of
both the homosexual agenda and with political correctness in general.
Phony words with meaningless etymolgies are presented, like "homophobia,"
intended to put a pseudo-diagnostic gloss on a point of view which is
targeted for suppression.
Perhaps the best known "real Lesbian" is Michael Chiklis, star of The
Commish and The Shield, whose father's family hails from the island. Other
Lesbians, less famous in this post literate age, are Theophrastus, the
successor of Aristotle, Terpander, Christopher of Mytilene and Saint
Theoctiste."<<
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http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4420
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