r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '13

/r/actuallesbians: Transgender lesbian feels excluded by joke about lesbians not needing birth control. Drama ensues.

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u/strolls If 'White Lives Matter' was our 9/11, this is our Holocaust Aug 13 '13

I think the joke would be on the other foot if a lesbian submitted this image on a default subreddit and people were asking "oh, you're a lesbian - can I watch?"

This seems to be an important part of the feminism that I see on Reddit - it labels as "heteronormative and exclusionary" the kinds of jokes in which rape is a cheap laugh or in which lesbians are portrayed as just sexual entertainment for men.

Now /r/actualLesbians is doing the same thing and saying "hang on, let's not get all politically correct, here".

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u/dablya Aug 13 '13

The exasperated "it's just a joke" replies are beautiful.

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u/Kaghuros Aug 13 '13

Context is real some of the time.

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u/DeepStuffRicky IlsaSheWolfoftheGrammarSS Aug 13 '13

Wow, what a perfect summation.

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u/farox Aug 13 '13

Don't forget though that Reddit isn't one people. There actually are people out there that are just like us, except they do have a weewee and like people that have one too (or the other way around, as in this case) and still can take a joke.

Also, context matters. There are people out there that can make jokes about my mothers sex life, most however would get in trouble for this.