During the 'partner' discourse I kept seeing cishet women say they can't use 'boyfriend' because it feels juvenile/adolescent but I don't see lesbians say this about 'girlfriend' and I'm wondering why.
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So, as you allude to, there's much more of a history behind the word "girlfriend" used among women with an intentional ambiguity of the level of intimacy involved "Girlfriend" is organically lesbian culture, let's say, while "boyfriend" is a recent import into het culture
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Anyway it's obviously a thing One of the biggest laugh lines in the movie Young Frankenstein is Frau Blücher revealing that the original Dr Frankenstein "vas... MY BOYFRIEND"
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