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[goldenhera]

Girls Kissing Girls: Explaining the Trend 
By Jeffrey Kluger

Britney and Madonna did it; so did Scarlett Johansson and Sandra Bullock. And so do women in bars, at mixers, on the street and, increasingly, in private - especially when those women are college students. The “it” is the kiss, of course, and even before Katy Perry celebrated the all-girl

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[maenads_dance]

STOP CALLING GROWNUPS GIRLS AND BOYS. This isn't just a pet peeve, it's also indicative of how easy it is for the writer of this article to take away the voices and agency of the women he's discussing.

Also, how much of this is just the assumption that two femme-appearing women must be bi-curious or straight?

[goldenhera]

how much of this is just the assumption that two femme-appearing women must be bi-curious or straight?

I would wager a good amount.

[ilurveyourmom]

Uggghhh all of this. When I see girl-girl I keep thinking "Are we at a slumber party?! And there are some totes cute boyz from the neighborhood??"

[pandaseal]

Ugh.

I kiss women becuase I'm attracted to women. The end.

[goldenhera]

Are you sure your not just trying to ~get the attention of men~ or ~engaging in copycat trendiness~?

[pandaseal]

Probably, I mean I am pansexual, which is only becuase I need men to notice me. How can I live my life without male attention?

[popehippo]

I don't care when straight women explore their attractions and sexualities. If they are attracted to women either partly or exclusively, good for them. If they find that they are not attracted to women at all, good for them. It's their bodies, their time, their emotions.

It's when people use it for their own monetary benefit while flaunting their straight priviledge that it pisses me off. Yes, I'm looking exclusively at you, Katy "I kiss women but only when my boyfriend watches me" Perry.

[maenads_dance]

I really really hate that song. I don't get why so many queer women have embraced it? Because she's reserving the right in that song to judge queer women while at the same time playing with them for her own amusement/pleasure.

[apricotflower]

The queer women I know that love it tend to just listen to the "I kissed a girl and I liked it" catchphrase and ignore the rest.

At least that's what I'm hoping, because I hatehatehate this song and have a very hard time trying not to judge queer people for liking it.

[popehippo]

Pretty much. I've had rows with friends who like Katy Perry and it's hard for me to say exactly how she irks me with songs like 'Ur So Gay' where it's so very clear that she's saying 'well you act like a bitchy woman, ergo, you MUST be gay', or maybe how the video for Kissed A Girl where it was ~all a dream~ and she rolls over back to her man, so glad to be out of it, annoys the ever living fuck out of me.

Yes, my countrymen, I LOVE artists who continue the stereotype that women who flaunt with bicuriousity are only in it for the hot men folk and not at all actually exploring it for their OWN pleasure while rolling in the dough for being ~edgy~.

[sandoz_iscariot]

I can't articulate a response to this article other than ASDFGHJKL;

[teithiwr]

I know, right? I tried, but keyboard smash happened.

[attacking]

a couple of dudes I know are super into "girl-on-girl" porn. they told me when they fantasized about women having sex with other women, they never fantasized about lesbians; in their heads the women were always straight or bisexual. lesbians weren't attractive to them because lesbians don't like men, and the men fantasizing about lesbian sex needed to feel as though they had a "chance" with the women (even in their fantasies). I always felt kinda... squicky about that.

to clarify - their thinking was more along the lines of "lesbians wouldn't have sex with me therefore they are useless to me," so it wasn't just a desire to "participate" in their own fantasies which I can understand.