US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 6: Lesbian & Gay Rights in the 1970s

But lesbianism is also different from male homosexuality, and serves a different function in the society. "Dyke" is a different kind of put-down from "faggot", although both imply you are not playing your socially assigned sex role. . . are not therefore a "real woman" or a "real man. " The grudging admiration felt for the tomboy, and the queasiness felt around a sissy boy point to the same thing: the contempt in which women-or those who play a female role-are held.

— Radicalesbians, "The Woman Identified Woman" (1970)

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