What I learned about Lesbian and Bi women's health

[menthe_reglisse]

 I've just been skimming this Stonewall report on L and BW's health.  And what did I learn?  I learned that:

- Most lesbians and bi women have much bigger breasts than me
- Most lesbians and bi women do not have mouths or noses
- While generally silenced by this anatomical lack, those who are empowered by possessing a mouth use it to shout 'I am a

Comments

[childeric]

Most lesbians and bi women do not have mouths or noses

How do they smell, then?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that joke is 150 million years old, but I couldn't help myself

[menthe_reglisse]

Lovely, of course!

[barakta]

Nice global find and replace job I thought. They decided to send it to me in my role as BiCon post-receiver...

I've just skimread the Women's Aid survival book, that's great! I'll shove that in my folder of stuff.

[menthe_reglisse]

But not even a good find and replace - completely inconsistent.

There's also Broken Rainbow http://www.broken-rainbow.org.uk/ for queer survivors of domestic abuse. Don't know whether they're any good on Bi though (most Women's Aid orgs probably aren't either).

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[fayroberts]

They did it for the main text parts but forgot some of the titles...

[fayroberts]

You'll have to excuse me - I'm still laughing hysterically at the front cover.

I've learned something:

• Cartoonish tereotypes are okay if you mix up the hair and skin colour a bit, add a hijab to one and put another in a wheelchair (with funky hair, natch).
  
  
• Queer women who dress girly have better chance at having happy health care experiences.
  
  
• Only bald queer women harm themselves.
  
  
• Thrush is apparently a sexually transmitted infection (no, it bloody isn't - untouched virgins can get thrush!)

I'll add to my list of wonderment later...

(Incidentally, as a queer poly woman I've had some odd reactions, but so far the medical professions have mostly blinked and gone "okay...")

[menthe_reglisse]

Queer women who dress girly have better chance at having happy health care experiences
Ooh, I missed that implication. Knew I shouldn't have thrown out my remaining pair of heels. Hmm, maybe I won't have such a drastic post-baby haircut lest it leads to self-harm.

I think they mean 'transmissable' rather than 'necessarily transmitted'

[fayroberts]

Yep: page 5, where the dykey-looking ones look miserable (another use for those otherwise vestigial gobs) but the ones in dresses are smiley. Yay.

"...thrush which, in common with other sexually transmitted infections..."

Then they need to sort out their language. But we already said that...

[steer]

disappearing bisexuals

They can do that? Cool!

Hmm... exactly how much would I have to sleep with a man to get this power? It might be worth it.

[menthe_reglisse]

Well, it's pretty much always self-definition in Bi circles, so you'd just have to sleep with a man enough that you *felt* you were bi, then you'd develop the ability. Go on, give it a try!

[steer]

I always find it depressing when women advise me to sleep with men. It's like a rejection by proxy from the entire gender.

Gah... can't some kind of bi-o-meter be developed. Honestly, sometimes I think that people just go to bicon to mess around and enjoy themselves rather than undertake basic research.

[fayroberts]

Sounds fairly basic to me... ;)

[fayroberts]

Can I repost this?

[menthe_reglisse]

Of course.