There's a longform retrospective video on MOGAI that digs into this. Personal opinion: a lot of kids get carried away with trying to either a) make sure everything is sanitized and perfect by scrapping flags made by problematic makers (There was a brief attempt to make a 'new pan flag' that fizzled out for similar reasons)Ĭ) find a super definitive objective Right Answer and slap an -ist on people that aren't subscribed to it (softcore what the term exclu does depending on context).I don't mean shit like terfs, there's actual lobbying for loss of trans rights there but "yeah you probably don't need a term for 'doesnt think mspec lesbian valid' ". Edit: the starting point for the sunset lesbian flag is more like "the lipstick lesbian flag was a modified version of the tongue-in-cheek cougar flag done by a gay drag queen which in itself has format similarities to the leather and bear flags" but whatever. I have Ehh feelings about copyrighting a flag format like that, there's other flags with a white interior stripe out there(I guess it's the amount of stripes?)+it started with a flag people took issue with in the first place. The flag was made after the lipstick lesbian flag but before the lesbian flag remake. In conjunction with 1, "you're using a lesbian flag format when you have those Hot Takes on lesbians, as someone who is not only not a lesbian but a guy". The first blue flag iteration got co-opted, unsourced and people jumped on that. Edit: So yeah after some digging this isn't even the case, see: edit text.
This annoys the shit out of people because "yeah saying lesbians can kind of sort of like men defeats the point + can reinforce the dangerous mentality that they can be attracted to men".I get creepy dudes saying "but give me a chance/how do you know if you dont try it/you just need to try it I have decided this"( Yeah not joking when I say the mentality is dangerous) aren't in overlap with tumblr kiddies trying to welcome everything under the sun but you can see why people would take it badly. The creator did a bad, I don't know what the anti-blackness thing is about but they're allegedly a transmedicalist+said mspec(malespec?) or bi lesbians can exist. You get an idea when you search it on twitter.