Banning the word lesbian
The EU is known for getting a little rigid on who can legally use words to describe products. The first product to feel its wrath was champagne. If it was not made in the Champagne region of France then it could no longer be called champagne, instead it was demoted to “sparkling wine”.
Now it seems if you were not born of the Greek island of Lesbos, you can not be called a lesbian. Now I can understand the people of Lesbos getting their nose a little out of joint by all these dykes running around the place calling themselves lesbians, but do they really think that going to court about this is going to get people to stop calling gay women lesbians?
Let’s say for a moment, that they do win their court case and only people born on Lesbos can be called lesbians. What do we call gay women? I personally love the word dyke, in fact I much prefer it to the word lesbian. Lesbian to me sounds kinda clinical. However, if the word dyke then becomes the accepted word for lesbian, I imagine we will have the Dutch in court saying that if someone is not a long wall or bank built in the Netherlands to keep out the sea then they can not be legally called a dyke.
So what should be the new term for gay women? I can’t imagine carpet munchers would go down well in polite company, although the evil side of me would love to see one of those uppity news readers or homophobic politicians have to use the term on air. Let’s hear what you think we should be called.
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Tags: dyke, EU, lesbian
