A Conversation for M2M2 - The H2G2 Lesbigay Area

lesbos the island and the name kerfuffel

Post 1

BeowulfShaffer

I was wondering what people here think of the conflict over wether lesbian should refer to homosexual women or natives of Lesbos


lesbos the island and the name kerfuffel

Post 2

T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly.

From what I remember, of my classical studies, lesbians refers to homosexual women because Lesbos was full of lesbos smiley - winkeye


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lesbos the island and the name kerfuffel

Post 3

BeowulfShaffer

Attucaly it is because it was home to some lesbain poet.


lesbos the island and the name kerfuffel

Post 4

BeowulfShaffer

well attucaly she was bi or atleast thats what it seems to me.


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Post 5

T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly.

I thought there was some sort of group or society or some such?


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lesbos the island and the name kerfuffel

Post 6

BeowulfShaffer

No its cause of Sappho a poet from Lesbos who is widley consider to have been gay though what I know about her makes bisexuality seem more likely. But back to were I started who do you think the name belongs to and can it apply to both.


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Post 7

T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly.

Well technically the word refers to the people of Lesbos and did so long before it was taken to mean a homosexual woman. I suppose it now means both, although I doubt that the islanders like that.


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Post 8

BeowulfShaffer

Do you think that it is right for the islanders to prostest lesbain meaning homo


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Post 9

T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly.

Well I doubt it's overly funny being Lesbian if you're male despite other people, ie me, finding it amusing. It's even better when you point out that approximately 50% of Lesbians are male.


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lesbos the island and the name kerfuffel

Post 10

BeowulfShaffer

apperntly it also causes a lot of trouble for women from there


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Post 11

T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly.

Yes, I can see how that might be the case


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