Lesbians: Get Off Your Butts and Support Your Sisters
by Shimmie
As many of you know, I have spent the better part of a year trying to get this web site up and running. I’ve had a lot of great help along the way (Boiscout, for example).
There are those, however, that continue to disappoint. My case in point…there was a girl who I met at a Fleur de Lez party last year. She was new in town and wanted to get out and meet new lesbians. Awesome. No problem, right? She gladly used the site and myself as a launching pad. That’s not a big deal, as that’s really what we’re here for. What pissed me off was that now that she has her little circle of friends, all of a sudden she’s much too busy to click a mouse.
I recently asked (okay, begged) my friends to visit the site and leave a comment. Not a big thing. Not everyone did it, but I really didn’t expect them to. I have to admit, however, that it still was a little annoying. This girl, however, took that to a whole new level.
She texted me to tell me that she was so busy with work and school and whatever that she didn’t have time to check out the site. “What?” I thought. I was just going to let it go and chalk her up as a non-friend when I started to notice that she posted on Facebook ALL the time. That’s right, she could post on FB for days but didn’t “have time” to visit Fleur de Lez once.
Being the bitch that I am, I couldn’t let it go. I began texting her and asking if she had visited the site. When that didn’t get a response, I started commenting on her status updates on FB. I would say something shitty like, “I see that you’re schedule has cleared up a bit. Have you visited the site?”
I have yet to get a response from her.
Is she pissed at me? Probably. Do I care? No.
I am sick and tired of people in this community saying that there’s: A) nothing going on, B) no lesbians in town, or C) no organizations for lesbians as successful as the channels that are there for gay men. I call bullshit on that, people.
The truth is that there are lesbians in this community — a lot. There are things to do, just check out our calendar. And there are lots of groups or other support networks out there. What we’re trying to do with the web site is compile that information in one spot so that it can be easily found. We won’t be successful, however, if people can’t take the time to pull up the site.
Where’s our support? Where are our sisters?
Gay men have a monopoly on many things in our community because they get off their asses and attend or support it in some way. They do that even when they have boyfriends.
We girls could take a few pointers from the guys. Get up…get out…and if you can’t get out, find other ways to support the community.
As for the girl who has too much to do, just remember — Fleur de Lez was there for you when you had no one.
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