When the LGBTQ+ community is talking about lesbians in this way, what hope is there for the rest of the world?Īnd this doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. Why is a bald – or butch – woman something to be ridiculed? And then, Will Smith leaping up to protect his wife’s honour – from what? Being teased as a butch? Defending her femme-ness and heterosexuality? Her honour being contingent on those things?Įven Pride in London was once heard to bemoan “ the hairy lesbians muscling in“.
Remember when AA Gill dismissed Clare Balding as “a dyke on a bike”? Or Trump’s repeated digs at Rosie O’Donnell? We might even consider the underlying lesbophobia of the Chris Rock and Will Smith debacle. Or queer women are entirely desexualised.
