thexfiles:

straight women, if you really want to pride yourselves on being Great Allies, i implore you to consider the following:

• stop using the term ‘girlfriend’ to refer to your lady friends. it’s confusing for us and makes it that much harder for our relationships to be taken seriously
  
• stop joking that you and your best friend are Totally Lesbians. our relationships are not yours to make some cutesy little joke with your friends
• yes, this totally includes using the  👭 emoji on pictures of you and your straight friends on instagram. why do you do that
• stop using the term ‘girl/woman crush’
  
• stop making out with your straight friends to get guys off
  
• stop fetishizing our relationships
• stop assuming that the one lesbian or bi girl you know at school is going to hit on you. chances are, they want absolutely nothing to do with you
• and stop assuming it’d be the end of the world if she did