straight women, if you really want to pride yourselves on being Great Allies, i implore you to consider the following:
stop using the term ‘girlfriend’ to refer to your lady friends. it’s confusing for us and makes it that much harder for our relationships to be taken seriously
stop joking that you and your best friend are Totally Lesbians. our relationships are not yours to make some cutesy little joke with your friends
yes, this totally includes using the
👭 emoji on pictures of you and your straight friends on instagram. why do you do that
stop using the term ‘girl/woman crush’
stop making out with your straight friends to get guys off
stop fetishizing our relationships
stop assuming that the one lesbian or bi girl you know at school is going to hit on you. chances are, they want absolutely nothing to do with you
and stop assuming it’d be the end of the world if she did
