Dykes To Watch Out For Quotes

So it's actually way easier just to humor these men who grew up watching movies where the girl doesn't like the hero until he's been persistent enough to make her like him. This is the grease that keeps the gears of the heteronormativity machine spinning, obviously, but it's just easier to slip out of an awkward situation with an awkward guy than it is to call out the misogyny inherent in what he's doing. It's a tough spot to be in, but also this is coming from an angry dyke who's also trans and who, at one point, had society try to use her as a vessel for that kinda of misogyny.

SUZY BYRNE: I think it’s interesting to watch GLEN emerge from an organisation which was not interested in civil partnership to one that became interested in civil partnership ‘but let’s not talk about marriage’, to then going, ‘Woohoo! Marriage! And children!’ That was actually really interesting. GLEN didn’t want to talk about kids at the time when they were starting the civil partnership issues. And that’s where a lot of women were very critical. At the KAL lunch, GLEN put little notices out. They were trying to find lesbians to go on the board because there weren’t any lesbians on the board. We called it ‘Rent-a-Dyke’ at the time.

it’s actually way easier just to humor these men who grew up watching movies where the girl doesn’t like the hero until he’s been persistent enough to make her like him. This is the grease that keeps the gears of the heteronormativity machine spinning, obviously, but it’s just easier to slip out of an awkward situation with an awkward guy than it is to call out the misogyny inherent in what he’s doing. It’s a tough spot to be in, but also, this is coming from an angry dyke who’s also trans and who, at one point, had society try to use her as a vessel for that kind of misogyny.