OK, we're constructing types of relationships and projecting them back on the past or otherwise outside of their original context. That applies every bit as much to romantic friendship and to asexuality as to lesbianism. And heterosexuality.
You say that romantic relationships are elevated and sure! I'll buy that! But women's sexuality sure isn't highlighted in a positive way by any society I've lived in, and the whole idea of romantic friendship has at times played into the frankly creepy idea of female "purity" way more than I am personally happy with. I have an uneasy relationship with the term although I absolutely recognise that it can have value outside of that area; but seriously, this is not a problem-free thing either.
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Date: 2010-09-14 01:30 pm (UTC)You say that romantic relationships are elevated and sure! I'll buy that! But women's sexuality sure isn't highlighted in a positive way by any society I've lived in, and the whole idea of romantic friendship has at times played into the frankly creepy idea of female "purity" way more than I am personally happy with. I have an uneasy relationship with the term although I absolutely recognise that it can have value outside of that area; but seriously, this is not a problem-free thing either.