SlaveMasterUK
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I don't feel there's much I can add to this that has not already been said, but I can iterate again that asking a question that is effectively "what makes lesbians lesbian" is very much a broad and categorising question. Particularly where you suggest the majority of lesbians have short hair: I don't know the statistics behind this, but I'd say that if you wanted to know the mode lesbian hairdo, this is because you're going to create a "real world stereotype" in your story.
There are lots of people, male and female, who have different hairstyles. You could say, for example, that you were writing a story about motorcyclists and you wanted to know if it is true that the majority of motorcyclists have long hair. If you proved this to be true, and wrote your story with a long-haired motorcyclist BECAUSE of the statistics, you would be stereotyping. I am a motorcyclist and I don't have long hair.
As has been said before, lesbians are like everyone else - they will wear what they like, have their hair how they like, date who they like and do the things they like to do in bed. There are a huge number of preferences, kinks, fetishes etc. that abound in heterosexual people; they apply also to gay/bi people.
I would also disagree with Colleen's suggestion that male lesbian writers are writing for men. I write lesbian stories for a collective audience of males and females, gay, bi or straight. I would say a small majority of my feedback is from women, a large minority from men, and a bit in between that is anonymous.
Incidentally, my lesbians tend to be young, attractive and feminine. Usually one of them is heavily into domination and denial - fetishes that straight people have, too.
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There are lots of people, male and female, who have different hairstyles. You could say, for example, that you were writing a story about motorcyclists and you wanted to know if it is true that the majority of motorcyclists have long hair. If you proved this to be true, and wrote your story with a long-haired motorcyclist BECAUSE of the statistics, you would be stereotyping. I am a motorcyclist and I don't have long hair.
As has been said before, lesbians are like everyone else - they will wear what they like, have their hair how they like, date who they like and do the things they like to do in bed. There are a huge number of preferences, kinks, fetishes etc. that abound in heterosexual people; they apply also to gay/bi people.
I would also disagree with Colleen's suggestion that male lesbian writers are writing for men. I write lesbian stories for a collective audience of males and females, gay, bi or straight. I would say a small majority of my feedback is from women, a large minority from men, and a bit in between that is anonymous.
Incidentally, my lesbians tend to be young, attractive and feminine. Usually one of them is heavily into domination and denial - fetishes that straight people have, too.
ax