When did “Lesbian” become a rude word? I spent a week at the Edinburgh Festival, mainly for music, but I also attended 5 comedy sessions. In almost all of them the comic would say the word “Lesbian” and everybody would laugh. Laura Solon offered this joke. “If there is no one in a wood and a tree falls down and hits a Lesbian, does that prove they exist” (Cue laughter). Mark Thomas’s joke centred around the fact he had said the word “Lesbian” on breakfast TV. (Gales of laughter) But really all that had to happen was one woman say to another “are you a lesbian?” and everybody laughs. When did this happen and what does it mean? It’s like a croud of 3 year olds saying “bum” and falling about.
Sandra McNeill
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