Do we have a "Boston Marriage" in all senses of the term then?
Well, hrm, depends on how you look at it. Boston is one of the few places in the US where a "Boston marriage" can actually be recognized legally, so by that measure, i guess it is still only so informally.
she and her partner were telling me about this female couple one time who wouldn't call themselves "lesbians" but insisted they were "gay women". Apparently they were very proper and well to do and went to theatres a lot or something...
And i suppose they wanted to distinguish themselves from those bohemian (c whut i did thar?) poorly-behaved feminist lesbians.
But even the term "woman" itself isn't a "real term".
Indeed.
I suppose the people from that island have a point, but I don't think they have a chance of getting "their word" back. After all, what would we call ourselves then?
One relatively un-problematic other term, until a real word comes along, would be the archaic "sapphist." Not ideal, but then, in this line of endeavor, nothing ever is.
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Well, hrm, depends on how you look at it. Boston is one of the few places in the US where a "Boston marriage" can actually be recognized legally, so by that measure, i guess it is still only so informally.
she and her partner were telling me about this female couple one time who wouldn't call themselves "lesbians" but insisted they were "gay women". Apparently they were very proper and well to do and went to theatres a lot or something...
And i suppose they wanted to distinguish themselves from those bohemian (c whut i did thar?) poorly-behaved feminist lesbians.
But even the term "woman" itself isn't a "real term".
Indeed.
I suppose the people from that island have a point, but I don't think they have a chance of getting "their word" back. After all, what would we call ourselves then?
One relatively un-problematic other term, until a real word comes along, would be the archaic "sapphist." Not ideal, but then, in this line of endeavor, nothing ever is.