I am sick to death frequently irritated at the common misconception of hearing people tell me lesbians don't exist.

The conversation went as follows... with a few bits cut out!

Me: Yeah, she's allowed her opinion but she shouldn't air it so verbally when she's a public figure who should be supporting equality.
Him: Well at least she can't mean lesbians.
Me: What?
Him: She can't have a go at lesbians?
Me: Why not?
Him: They don't exist.
Me: This is to do with Queen Victoria isn't it?
Him: Yeah.

In my head my next line was "You dumb fuck! You'll believe anything you're told!"* but what I actually said was "no she didn't. It's a popular misconception. An urban myth."

As soon as we got back I had to go for a little lie down.

There are two tales to this myth. One is that Queen Victoria refused to sign the criminal law act because she didn't believe that woman did that sort of thing with each other. The other story is that the politicians didn't know how to explain lesbianism to Vicky so just left it out the act.

Both of those stories are bollocks!

If she'd have refused to sign anything they'd have been a political uproar as the monarch had no powers to overrule parliament and as for de-lesbianising an act that would have been hiding something from the Monarch which is classed as high treason and would have resulted in the death penalty!**

The truth is that in the 70's a group of rug munchers got together to fight for equality and they happened to do it while stood by a statue of Victoria. You can blame Juzzzy the media for taking things out of context!

Now lets all agree that bean flickers do actually exist or there will be a few more bloggers who would only be in my imagination and that just isn't good! There is no debate over this. Lesbians exist!

If you want to debate anything then debate why lesbians have their own title yet gay men have to share. Women and men can be gay but only a woman can be a lesbian. Why?

*A bit like Scoobydoofus! - just ask him about Sharon McTwain!
**Before anyone starts on me the death penalty is totally gone. Treason is no longer a hang-able offence and hasn't been since 1998! Interestingly enough until 1971 you could be hanged for causing a fire in a naval dockyard!