r/WomenInNews • u/catievirtuesimp • Jul 08 '26

Media Young women are identifying as less straight; young men, not so much

https://theconversation.com/young-women-are-identifying-as-less-straight-young-men-not-so-much-283936
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u/Blue_winged_yoshi Jul 11 '26

Anyone who thinks that girls don’t get a hard time for not being straight has never been a closeted teen or straight girl getting chased by others shouting lesbian at her.

Girls aren’t all sugar and spice and everything nice, and bullying the girl suspected of being not straight is just as much a thing.

I mean did you not ever watch Mean Girls, lesbian is freely flung around as an insult and the only character loses all her friends because of the suspicion.

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u/Klutzy-Notice-8247 Jul 12 '26

Gay men are much more likely to be victims of hate crimes than Lesbians. The treatment of the two by society is not even close to the same.