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[quote=Anonymous]Married lesbian here. I am so tired of well-intentioned people who discover I’m a lesbian and want to tell me about the one lesbian they know, or about the movie that they saw 10 years ago that had a lesbian in it.

Both things happened yet again this evening, at a professional networking  event where all of the attendees have advanced degrees (so no claims or being unsophisticated in the usual sense). It comes up when people start talking about kids and spouses and I mention my own wife. My sexual orientation is otherwise irrelevant to my work life but I’m not willing to pretend I’m straight or stay silent when everyone else is talking about their families.

Rather than telling me about that one lesbian they know or the one movie they’ve seen, I wish that people would (1) ask about my wife just like they’d ask about anyone’s else’s wife (profession, hobbies, etc) or (2) say nothing at all.

Bizarrely, the most repetitive comments come from straight women. Guys almost always keep rolling and say they have a wife too, or else say nothing at all.

No need to criticize, this is just my complaint to the universe![/quote]

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