I don't understand why it's so hard to call people by their chosen names. I'm starting to go by my (gender neutral) Hebrew name, but some people will never get the hang of it.

@@SewardWriter there's no real reason except, at best, forgetfulness/ignorance, and at worst, a blatant lack of respect. Either way it sucks, and I feel your frustration.

@@jokig yes, I am disrespectful

@@SewardWriter Why was she like this? Gluck, I mean. Her mind was clearly troubled.

No one dares to be other than "respectful", even if 99% of the sex/gender crap is absolutely absurd.

Same reason why a lot of fictional works nowadays (manga, fanfictions, etc.) about homosexual men are usually not accurate, because they are mostly written by heterosexual (or even homosexual) women due to a lack of homosexual men willing to express themselves. Just as mentioned in this video, sadly, homosexuality among men is reviled upon way more than women.

Yeah, I’m lesbian myself and I’m sick of not being able to be in a loving relationship with my wife without some creepy person making a sexual comment about the fact we’re a lesbian couple. The most authentic depictions of lesbian love are usually made by either lesbians or queer people.

Hi how are you doing?

Thank you so much for the beautiful comment! That topic will certainly get revisited in the future! Ig you're interested, I also made a short video on David Hockey's Portrait of an Artist! It portrays the love story between David Hockney and Peter Schlesinger. Enjoy!!

Thank you so much!

It’s shocking. Absolutely mentally it stuff.

Thank you! That's very sweet! I'm happy the work is appreciated!

Do you have any other sources you used for your investigation? I want to learn more about the artist but I can’t find more videos about them

@@moth9659 yes! i finished it a year ago so i’ll have to look for the bibliography but i’m sure i have it somewhere. i’ll look for it and i could send it to you, do you have an email address? they’re mostly articles but i think there’s a couple videos too.

I'm very happy that Gluck's video is the one you're coming back to! I absolutely agree with you! That portrait is extremely nuanced and ambiguous and those two things really gives it its strength! Thank you for your feedback and thanks for the encouragement!

No thank YOU Valentina!

Thank you Vito!!

Thank you so much Jimmy!!

I think it's got something to do with society seeing men as predatory. Women are viewed to be meek, so lesbian representation is not really frowned upon in today's media. It's more noticeable in children's cartoons where lesbian couples are being explicitly showed as couples like PB and Marceline.

@@bweeeeniee1131 but legend of Korra got cancelled (on Nickelodeon) because she was lesbian 😭

@@Lizzifer7 that was around 2012-2013, where anything queer was not allowed. However afterwards there was a noticeable trend of queer women in kids shows as opposed to queer men

​@@bweeeeniee1131 historically it used to be that women's sexuality was invisible when it didn't involve a man or some form of penetrative sex. I think that baggage still carries over today.

There are a number of things that lead to this. -The fetishization of lesbianism as mentioned in the video that means a lot of heterosexual men don't mind lesbian relationships because they find them hot (while also simultaneously often assuming that a woman can't possibly actually be satisfied with relationships with other women and seeing lesbianism as a phase or thing that exists for the purpose of threesomes). -The general wider acceptance of women showing affection in physical ways with each other. It's perfectly normal for women to hold hands, kiss each other on the cheeks, cuddle, etc. without any accusation of homosexuality as men might receive. So when that's taken one step further to kissing on the lips it can easily be seen as quite chaste by some. (See r/sapphoandherfriend for a lot of examples of this.) -The underlying misogyny behind a lot of homophobia. A huge part of the reason that gay men are shunned is because liking men is seen as a feminine trait, and we live in a society in which femininity is seen as generally worse than masculinity. When a woman takes on a masculine trait (here: liking women) that can be easily seen as an upgrade (see also: girlboss culture). Essentially it's the same reason why women can wear pants but men can't wear dresses.

There's many afab non-binary people that are very prominent in media I'd argue more than amab non-binary

​@@Punpun_sugar id argue we should focus less on nonbinary people's agab in general. Dividing nonbinary people into another binary kind of defeats the point imo

@@Cxrpzzz I'm just pointing out a common occurrence that I see in media. I'm not dividing anything

Yeah I thought she couldn't be more cool and ahead of her time than I already thought, and now I discover she even recognized non-binary gender identity!? Hell yeah, f*cking icon!

Shut up.

I would agree that it isn't bad because of your outlined reasons. But it is undeniable that outside of the lesbian community the word generally means women loving women and so using the more widely recognised umbrella term of queer was I think a better move for communicating to a wider audience that Gluck did not identify as a woman.

Either that, or room mates!

they sound like

I’m sorry that you have had such horrible experiences with the term, but ‘queer’ is no longer considered a slur by much of the current generation of lgbt people. For example, ‘queer theory’ is a general term used for lgbt studies that isn’t inherently offensive. I wouldn’t mind being labeled as queer, and many of my LGBT friends wouldn’t either, as long as it’s not used in a derogatory way. I don’t think he meant any harm, and by using queer as an umbrella term he’s validating non-binary people.

@@anotherworldhopper5344 by who. It is to a whole lot of us.

I believe it all depends on the context

to bring a negative connotation to “queer” is more harmful in my opinion. it is as much as an umbrella term as homosexual is. but I see where you’re coming from

@@clareification I hear you but to pronounce everyone queer because they perhaps identify with one of the 5+ letters (lgtbq+)is not right. Many of the us don’t want to labeled queer. Everyone should have the respect paid to them to be able to choose as how they wish to be referred. Just as people get to choose their gender identifier.

Hello friend! The video is not out yet, but, as I will explain in the video, I'm using the term queer just because Gluck refused to be labelled a woman. I felt bad calling someone who refused to be called a woman (and rejected their female name) a lesbian. Just for the sake of simplicity, I use queer as an umbrella term for nonheterosexual.

Thank you. He doesn’t recognize that individuals should give their permission before labeling anyone as queer. It is not an excepted term.

@@TheCanvasArtHistory Queer is a male sexuality, which has been purloined by radical feminists (Butler et al.). That changes nothing, queerness is a male problem and as shown by the lesbianism dabates in the UK parliament in the 1920's, not a female one. FYI: Transindentity has nothing to do with sexuality. Do not mix the two (as here). But otherwise well researched.

That's what they called themselves???

So long as don’t practise sexual acts. You forgot that.

Stop being ridiculous .. they cannot practise sexual acts . It seems tome this is what it represents.

We have always been plural pronouns to people of heat achievements. You dumb call a lung by his name but His Majesty's, suns or whatever the culture deems good

search up ' singular they ' if it's so hard to understand. you sound ignorant.