autoxtc

nah i think my boyfriend was driving and i guess your brother was messing with him hahahahaha, i think if anything your brother was the one who opened the gate for me once a long time ago, he has black wheels right, blacked out tails? i think or is it maroon i cant remeber

anyway, yeah and when i showed my boyfriend the picture of your car, he was like oh that wasnt him who was messing with me....he doesnt really care though ahahah all good.... anyway i think he passed by your house on robindale, and saw two tc's parked there, so he told me oh yeah my neighbors got two tcs in the corner house....i was like oh nuh uh...so yeah i figured it was your brother, and plus you said in an earlier reply that your brother was working on his car while you were rotating wheels when you guys got cited, so yeah i figured it was your brother who had one too

yeah i know you dont have no speed bumps on your way to your house....my boyfriend and i just take the long way around through tenaya and the way to his house is speedbumpless....*sigh* the smooth roadness. sometimes we just tear it up and down there to test out some new additions to the car, or when we swap wheels or do tire rotation to make sure we've torqued the lugs right

aen

ii went to see if i could find some tC's in the neighborhood a couple days ago...i coudln't find a single tc hahahah but then again. it was like 2 AM. so i guess htey weere all inside with all the stupid wacky HOA things we got now.

HyPnOtIk

iTrader: (4)

Ill be out in vegas this weekend !! is anything good going on out there ? Maybe a scion meet i can hit up and meet all of you ?

aen

theres one on saturdays. but its kinda just a meet and eat and bull____ and bull____ and bull____ and bull____ type of thing =P

HyPnOtIk

iTrader: (4)

oh where is it at ? i may be bored when i go out there so i might want to hit it up . Who goes out there to this meet ? Is it all Scions ?

aen

kinda..it's alot of scions go to the vegas turbo toyotas dyno thread and ask them, they are all meeting up and know more about it, they show up more than me.....i'm ussually off to the side and show up from time to time. =X

autoxtc

hypnotik, if you wanna run your tc at the autox on saturday at primm, youre welcome, preregistration is probably closed already, open registration is 5 pm drivers meeting 6:30, 7 pm first car out on course... we're expecting just about over 100 people driving (not including their guests) or more, last i heard about two days ago was there were 75 registered drivers... so it should be fun, not as much seat time as a day time event, but anytime we could get seat time its worth it!

saturday, august 25 5 pm
$45 for non SCCA members
$35 for SCCA members (thats me! hehe)

anyone else who wants to come out and watch or just see what its all about, you can always come out to watch, just make sure you get a wrist band at the table and sign the waiver and stay outta the cars ways on dont hang out on course hehe ( we've had a couple of course workers get hit by cars in past autox's in different states, so far lv region has been good about keeping people outta dangerous situations like that, somewhat dangerous but super fun dodging cars and running after cones!)

for anyone coming out, ill be in the silver tc with all the mazdas, ill probably be the only tc racing tomorrow night

aen, yeah 2 am hehehe everyone's cars are probably in the garage already...either that or my boyfriend and i are crusing out for a random night drive that late at night, you can always catch my car parked either on the street or in the drive way at his house during the week after 6 or 7. (ill probably be out there tonight cleaning my windshield, hit a few bugs two nights ago canyon crusing

aen

whats this autox thing? i want to go

autoxtc

www.lvrscca.org all the info you need is pretty much on there

a summary:

what some people consider it is "dancing cones" this is where a lot of the professional race car drivers (i.e. champ car) start off. a course consisting of cones, involving tons of driving skill. turns, straights, slaloms, sweepers, hair pins. not a high speed course, but we do have very very fast drivers that come out and very nice old and new vehicles. from exige's to old skool honda civics (dave hironaka, fastest / best driver at an autox, drives an Street Touring 89 honda civic, whoops everyones behinds)
its super fun, worth the money, night events are crowded compared to day time events, but its all good. you'll have lots of fun! even just watching or riding along with people is fun, and the next time you come out you'll probably wanna run your car. we've got heavily modified cars to staight up stock cars racing, so anyone qualifies to race. just as long as you pass tech and have a helmet (which they have rental helmets available for an extra $10) and you'll be running against people from your own class, with similar modifications, so its not unfair. come out and watch for a little bit, you'll see what i rant and rave about so much (im an addict, autox is my drug)

lots of people that come out and actually race for the first time, quickly find out that driving skill is what it all comes down to. and you'll see why i get so irritated when people blame the reason why they lost on their cars and not themselves! heheh

hopefully my boyfriend (christian) and i (jaimie) will see you out there. i figured none of you guys know my name! hehe

btw, a little late, "hi my name is jaimie"

aen

=D hi jamie. you told me your name

im hieu

as in hugh hefner, hugh grant or the first syllable of huey the duck.

if i went there, id probably hit a bunch of cones and mess up bad. and im sure out of instinct id blame it on a bad tire or no gas or soemthing retarded. but honestly, how mnay of us drive salom on a daily basis. =P

its instinct lady hahah

autoxtc

ahahahah yeah... actually chris and i have done slaloms down robindale, when no one is around going back to his house... its great when they set up the cones just perfectly spaced apart and havent begun tearing up the road yet, its just heavenly

but to be honest though, autox does play a huge role in everyday driving, especially with all the dumba--es out here in vegas that dont know how to drive (when you need to swerve outta the way when they dont check their blindspots ergs me so!) plus it teaches people to not only pay attention to whats in front of them but everything around them, sides, back, front, and paying attention to whats way way ahead. it improves driving abilities and reactions, and teaches you what your car is capabale of. anyway, think of it as a fun, aggressive driving school!

anyway, dude dont even worry about taking out cones your first time, 6 months into autox i missed a whole entire section of the course! my first time i missed sections, taken out sections, even the people that have been doing this for 6 to even 20 years have still taken out whole entire sections of the course, it happens, its all a part of learning right? when it rains it gets even more interesting on the course, a friend of mine spun her MSP and so did Dave and his underpowered honda civic. autox is awesome, i believe everyone should try it atleast once. you may like it you may not, but that on you ya know what i mean. i did drag at MM a few years back and at the time i thought it was awesome, but as soon as i tried autox, i never wanted to go back to the strip again. its fun running up against cars in a straight line, shows just how fast your car really is, and its nice to know how much you can do in a quarter mile. but autox brings out a drivers true skill. its fun to compete against the other drivers there too, BUT ive recently learned the only person i really need to compete against is myself. and the people at autox are more friendly, more approachable, and the environment is so much better, you feel more welcome there than anywhere else, no matter what car or modifications you have, as long as you got a good attitude

HyPnOtIk

iTrader: (4)

I ended up not going out to Vegas so i wont make the event . Maybe next time . I beleive i will be out there for SEMA though so ill post up if im out there for that !

aen

THAT WAS YOU GUYS?!?!

=| i was playing videogames one day. don't remember when but was watching a scion do that. a lotus do that and a frreaking lambo do that. then a civic try and hit the cone and gave up

not all at the same time. over the span of a couple of hours/days.

autoxtc

ahahah as long as it was a silver tc, then it was me

green mx6 that was christian

lambo and elise...the elise i know does it, that car is made to do things like that. lambo i would expect it too, especially if the driver knows how to drive the car

ahaha fun times, if they set up cones like that again, and chris and i come home late, you can expect to see us slalom, its just so tempting

btw autox was awesome last night, the course was smooth and flowed. boyfriend still whooped my butt this time. but eh it was super fun!

aen

ahh im going to go one day i swear. maybe after i get the turbo in..

olaHalo

chris and mark plan on going.
their aiming for the cone killer awards

olaHalo

dude i bet you suck ***** at autox.
drag is for fast cars? so let me drive your car on the drag strip and then you drive it and we'll see who gets the faster times. _____
stop writing ____ing biographies in your posts. a few sentences will be ok


haha im totally attacking your ___ for no reason im jk

aen

=|

don't take him seriously! he's an idiot.

olaHalo

stop following me.
ever since i called you meaty youve been horny for me!

and autoxtc
wtf. no power mods because you dont need them to go straight?
The earliest known written references to not going straight due to power mods was between women come from ancient Greece. Sappho (the eponym of "sapphism"), who lived on the island of Lesbos, wrote poems which apparently expressed her sexual attraction to other females but some ancient accounts also describe her as having had love affairs with men. Moreover, Maximus of Tyre wrote that Sappho's relationships with the girls in her school were platonic[citation needed]. Modern scholarship suggests a parallel between the ancient Greek constructs of love between men and boys and the friendships between Sappho and her students in which "both pedagogy and pederasty may have played a role."[3][4] Lesbian relationships have also been cited in ancient Sparta. Plutarch, writing about the Lacedaemonians, reports that "love was so esteemed among them that girls also became the erotic objects of noble women."[5] Accounts of lesbian relationships are also found in poetry and stories from ancient China, but are not documented with the detail given to male homosexuality. Research by anthropologist Liza Dalby, based mostly on erotic poems exchanged between women, has suggested lesbian relationships were commonplace and socially accepted in Japan during the Heian Period. During medieval times in Arabia there were reports of relations between harem residents, although these were sometimes suppressed. For example, Caliph Musa al-Hadi ordered the beheading of two girls who were surprised during lovemaking.[6] In Europe, the twelfth-century author Etienne de Fougčres' treatise on women, Livre des maničres (written circa A.D. 1170) derided lesbians, likening them to hens that act like roosters. This reflected a general tendency of European authorities, both religious and secular, to reject the notion that women could be properly sexual without men. [7]


Public policy
In Western societies, explicit prohibitions on women's homosexual behavior have been markedly weaker than those on men's homosexual behavior.

In the United Kingdom, lesbianism has never been illegal. In contrast, sexual activity between males was not made legal in England and Wales until 1967. It is said that lesbianism was left out of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 because Queen Victoria did not believe sex between women was possible, but this story may be apocryphal.[8] A 1921 proposal, put forward by Frederick Macquisten MP to criminalize lesbianism was rejected by the House of Lords; during the debate, Lord Birkenhead, the then Lord Chancellor argued that 999 women out of a thousand had "never even heard a whisper of these practices."[9] In 1928, the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity in a highly publicized trial, not for any explicit sexual content but because it made an argument for acceptance.[10] Meanwhile other, less political novels with lesbian themes continued to circulate freely.[11]

Jewish religious teachings condemn male homosexual behavior but say little about lesbian behavior. However, the approach in the modern State of Israel, with its largely secular Jewish majority, does not outlaw or persecute ___ sexual orientation; marriage between ___ couples is not sanctioned but common law status and official adoption of a ___ person's child by his or her partner have been approved in precedent court rulings (after numerous high court appeals). There is also an annual ___ parade, usually held in Tel-Aviv; in 2006, the "World Pride" parade was scheduled to be held in Jerusalem.

Western-style homosexuality is rarely tolerated elsewhere in the Muslim world, with the exception of Turkey where there are no laws or discriminative policies against lesbianism. It is punishable by imprisonment, lashings, or death in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Though the law against lesbianism in Iran has reportedly been revoked or eased, prohibition of male homosexuality remains.


Reproduction and parenting rights
See also: Parenting by same-sex couples
Many lesbian couples seek to have children through adoption, but this is not legal in every country.

In some countries access to assisted birth technologies by lesbians has been the subject of debate. In Australia the High Court rejected a Roman Catholic Church move to ban access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for lesbian and single women. However, immediately after this High Court decision, Prime Minister John Howard amended legislation in order to prevent access to IVF for these groups, effectively overruling the High Court decision and enforcing the Roman Catholic position, which raised indignation from the ___ and lesbian community as well as groups representing the rights of single women.


Sexuality

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In BedSexual activity between women is as diverse as sex between heterosexuals or ___ men. Some women in same-sex relationships do not identify as lesbian, but as bisexual, queer, or another label. As with any interpersonal activity, sexual expression depends on the context of the relationship.

Recent cultural changes in western and a few other societies have enabled lesbians to express their sexuality more freely, which has resulted in new studies on the nature of female sexuality. Research undertaken by the U.S. Government's National Center for Health Research in 2002 was released in a 2005 report called 'Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and Women 15-44 Years of Age, United States, 2002'. The results indicated that among women aged 15-44, 4.4 percent reported having had a sexual experience with another woman during the previous 12 months. When women aged 15–44 years of age were asked, "Have you ever had any sexual experience of any kind with another female?" 11 percent answered "yes".

There is a growing body of research and writing on lesbian sexuality, which has brought some debate about the control women have over their sexual lives, the fluidity of woman-to-woman sexuality, the redefinition of female sexual pleasure and the debunking of negative sexual stereotypes. One example of the latter is lesbian bed death, a term invented by sex researcher Pepper Schwartz to describe the supposedly inevitable diminution of sexual passion in long term lesbian relationships; this notion is rejected by many lesbians, who point out that passion tends to diminish in almost any relationship and many lesbian couples report happy and satisfying sex lives.


Culture

The Black Triangle was used to identify "socially unacceptable" women in concentration camps by the *****. Lesbians were included in this classification. Since then lesbians have appropriated the black triangle as a symbol of defiance against repression and discrimination in the same way that the pink triangle has been similarly appropriated by the LGBT community as a whole.Throughout history hundreds of lesbians have been well-known figures in the arts and culture.

Before the influence of European sexology emerged at the turn of the Twentieth Century, in cultural terms female homosexuality remained almost invisible as compared to male homosexuality, which was subject to the law and thus more regulated and reported by the press. However with the publication of works by sexologists like Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, and Magnus Hirschfeld, the concept of active female homosexuality became better known.

As female homosexuality became more visible it was described as a medical condition. In Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Sigmund Freud referred to female homosexuality as inversion or inverts and characterised female inverts as possessing male characteristics. Freud drew on the "third sex" ideas popularized by Magnus Hirschfeld and others. While Freud admitted he had not personally studied any such "aberrant" patients he placed a strong emphasis on psychological rather than biological causes. Freud's writings did not become well-known in English-speaking countries until the late 1920s.

This combination of sexology and psychoanalysis eventually had a lasting impact on the general tone of most lesbian cultural productions. A notable example is the 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, in which these sexologists are mentioned along with the term invert, which later fell out of favour in common usage. Freud's interpretation of lesbian behavior has since been rejected by most psychiatrists and scholars, although recent biological research has provided findings that may bolster a Hirschfeld-ian "third sex" interpretation of same-sex attraction.

During the twentieth century lesbians such as Gertrude Stein and Barbara Hammer were noted in the US avant-garde art movements, along with figures such as Leontine Sagan in German pre-war cinema. Since the 1890s the underground classic The Songs of Bilitis has been influential on lesbian culture. This book provided a name for the first campaigning and cultural organization in the United States, the Daughters of Bilitis.

During the 1950s and 1960s lesbian pulp fiction was published in the US and UK, often under "coded" titles such as Odd Girl Out, The Evil Friendship by Vin Packer and the The Beebo Brinker Chronicles by Ann Bannon. British school stories also provided a haven for "coded" and sometimes outright lesbian fiction.

During the 1970s the second wave of feminist era lesbian novels became more politically oriented. Works often carried the explicit ideological messages of separatist feminism and the trend carried over to other lesbian arts. Rita Mae Brown's debut novel Rubyfruit Jungle was a milestone of this period. By the early 1990s lesbian culture was being influenced by a younger generation who had not taken part in the "Feminist Sex Wars" and this strongly informed post-feminist queer theory along with the new queer culture.

In 1972 the Berkeley, California lesbian journal Libera published a paper entitled Heterosexuality in Women: its Causes and Cure. Written in deadpan, academic prose, closely paralleling previous psychiatry-journal articles on homosexuality among women, this paper inverted prevailing assumptions about what is normal and deviant or pathological and was widely read by lesbian feminists.

Since the 1980s lesbians have been increasingly visible in mainstream cultural fields such as music (Melissa Etheridge, K.D. Lang and the Indigo Girls), television (Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, and Portia de Rossi), sports (Martina Navrátilová and Billie Jean King) and in comic books (Alison Bechdel and Diane DiMassa). More recently lesbian eroticism has flowered in fine art photography and the writing of authors such as Pat Califia, Jeanette Winterson and Sarah Waters and Stella Duffy. There is an increasing body of lesbian films such as Desert Hearts, Go Fish, Loving Annabelle, Watermelon Woman, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Everything Relative, and Better than Chocolate (see List of lesbian, ___, bisexual or transgender-related films). Classic novels such as those by Jane Rule, Vin Packer, Ann Aldrich, and Ann Bannon have been reprinted. Moreover, prominent and controversial academic writers such as Camille Paglia and Germaine Greer also identify with lesbianism.


Media depictions
Lesbians often attract media attention, particularly in relation to feminism, love and sexual relationships, marriage, and parenting.


Cinema
See also: List of lesbian, ___, bisexual or transgender-related films
The first lesbian-themed feature film was Mädchen in Uniform (1931), based on a novel by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan, tracing the story of a schoolgirl called Manuela von Meinhardis and her passionate love for a teacher, Fräulein von Nordeck zur Nidden. It was written and mostly directed by women. The impact of the film in Germany's lesbian clubs was overshadowed, however, by the cult following for The Blue Angel (1930).

Until the early 1990s, any notion of lesbian love in a film almost always required audiences to infer the relationships. The lesbian aesthetic of Queen Christina (1933) with Greta Garbo has been widely noted, even though the film is not about lesbians. Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, referred more or less overtly to lesbianism, but the two characters involved were not presented positively: Mrs. Danvers was portrayed as obsessed, neurotic and murderous, while the never-seen Rebecca was described as having been selfish, spiteful and doomed to die. All About Eve (1950) was originally written with the title character as a lesbian but this was very subtle in the final version, with the hint and message apparent to alert viewers.

Playwright Lillian Hellman's first play, The Children's Hour (1934) was produced on Broadway. Set in a private girls' boarding school, the headmistress and a teacher are the targets of a malicious whispering campaign of insinuation by a disgruntled schoolgirl. They soon face public accusations of having a lesbian relationship.[12] The play was nominated for a Pulitzer prize, banned in Boston, London, and Chicago[13] and had a record-breaking run of 691 consecutive performances in New York.[14] A 1961 screen adaptation starred Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. The play's deep and pervasively dark themes and lesbian undertones have been widely noted.[15]

Mainstream films with openly lesbian content, sympathetic lesbian characters and lesbian leads began appearing during the 1990s. By 2000 some films portrayed characters exploring issues beyond their sexual orientation, reflecting a wider sense that lesbianism has to do with more than sexual desire. Notable mainstream theatrical releases included Bound (1996), Chasing Amy (1997), Kissing Jessica Stein (2001), Mulholland Drive, Monster, D.E.B.S. (2004 film), Rent (2005, based on the Jonathan Larson musical), My Summer of Love (2004) and Loving Annabelle (2006). There have also been many non-English language lesbian films such as Fire (India, 1996), ____ing Ĺmĺl (Sweden, 199, Blue (Japan, 2002), and Blue Gate Crossing (Taiwan, 2004).


Mainstream broadcast media
The 1980s television series L.A. Law included a lesbian relationship which stirred much more controversy than lesbian TV characters would a decade later. The 1989 BBC mini series Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit was based on lesbian writer Jeanette Winterson's novel of the same title. Russian pop-duo t.A.T.u were popular in Europe during the early 2000s, gaining wide attention and TV airplay for their pop videos because they were marketed as lesbians even though they weren't.

Many SciFi series have featured lesbian characters. An episode of Babylon 5 featured an implied lesbian relationship between characters Talia Winters and Commander Susan Ivanova. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 featured several episodes with elements of lesbianism and made it clear that in Star Trek's 24th century such relationships are accepted without a second thought.

Actress and comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in 1997 and her character on the sitcom Ellen did likewise soon after during its fourth season. This was the first American sitcom with a lesbian lead character. The coming-out episode won an Emmy Award but the series was cancelled after one more season. In 2000 the ABC Daytime Drama Series All My Children character Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) was revealed to be lesbian. While many praised the character's prominent storyline, others criticised the almost perpetual trauma and Bianca's lack of a successful long-running relationship with another woman. In 2004's popular television show on Showtime, The L Word is focused on a group of lesbian friends living in L.A., and Ellen DeGeneres had a popular daytime talk show. In 2005 an episode of The Simpsons ("There's Something About Marrying") depicted Marge's sister Patty coming out as a lesbian. Also that year on Law & Order the final appearance of assistant district attorney Serena Southerlyn included the revelation she was a lesbian, although some viewers claimed there had been hints of this in previous episodes.

Notable lesbian characters and appearances in the mainstream media have included:

Kim Daniels in the UK TV series Sugar Rush
Liz Cruz in Nip/Tuck
Willow Rosenberg, Tara Maclay and Kennedy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lindsay Peterson and Melanie Marcus in Queer as Folk
Maia Jeffries and Jay Copeland in Shortland Street
Lana Crawford and Georgina Harris in Neighbours
Amanda Donohoe (as C.J.Lamb) and Michelle Green (as Abbey Perkins) in LA Law
Dr. Kerry Weaver and Sandy López in ER
Dr. Kerry Weaver and Kim Legaspi in ER
Helen Stewart and Nikki Wade in Bad Girls
Paige Michalchuk and Alex Núńez in Degrassi:The Next Generation
Dorothy's college friend Jean in The Golden Girls
Alice Pieszecki, Dana Fairbanks, Bette Porter, Shane McCutcheon, Tina Kennard, Jodi Lerner, Helena Peabody, Phyllis Kroll, Jennifer Schecter, and several others in The L Word
Anna Friel and Nicola Stephenson on the UK series Brookside
Spencer Carlin and Ashley Davies in South of Nowhere
Carol, Ross' ex-wife and her life partner Susan on Friends
Sharon Stone and Ellen Degeneres in If These Walls Could Talk 2
Jennifer K. Buckmeyer in the made for TV special Coming Out
Marissa Cooper and Alex Kelly on The OC
Patty Bouvier, sister of Marge Simpson, on The Simpsons
Naomi Julien, Della Alexander and Binnie Roberts in EastEnders
Thelma Bates in Hex
Jessica Sammler and Katie Singer on Once and Again
Jasmine Thomas and Debbie Dingle, and Zoe Tate in Emmerdale
Maggie Sawyer and Toby Raines (implied) in Superman: The Animated Series
Beverly Harris, Nancy Bartlett and Jackie Harris in Roseanne
Maxine Proctor (implied) in In Diana Jones
Frankie Doyle, Angela Jeffries, Sharon Gilmore, Judy Bryant, Joan Ferguson, Audrey Forbes, Terri Malone in Prisoner: Cell Block H (TV series - 1979-1986)
Serena Southerlyn on Law And Order
Christina Ricci and Charlize Theron in Monster
Xena and Gabrielle in Xena: Warrior Princess
Penelope Cruz and Charlize Theron in "Head in the Clouds"
Piper Perabo and Jessica Paré in "Lost and Delirious"
the character Nia and Venus in My Baby's Daddy

Comics
For more details on this topic, see LGBT comic book characters.
Until 1989 the Comics Code Authority, which imposed de facto censorship on comics sold through newsstands in the United States, forbade any suggestion of homosexuality.[16] Overt lesbian themes were first found in underground and alternative titles which did not carry the Authority's seal of approval. The first comic with an openly lesbian character was "Sandy Comes Out" by Trina Robbins, published in the anthology Wimmen's Comix #1 in 1972.[17] ___ Comix (1980) included stories by and about lesbians and by 1985 the influential alternative title Love and Rockets had revealed a relationship between two major characters, Maggie and Hopey.[18] Meanwhile mainstream publishers were more reticent. A relationship between the female Marvel comics characters Mystique and Destiny was only implied at first, then cryptically confirmed in 1990 through the use of the archaic word leman, meaning a lover or sweetheart.[19] Only in 2001 was Destiny referred to in plain language as Mystique's lover.[20] In 2006 DC Comics could still draw widespread media attention by announcing a new, lesbian incarnation of the well-known character Batwoman[21] even while openly lesbian characters such as Gotham City police officer Renee Montoya already existed in DC Comics.[22]

Some writers and others (notably Chris Rock on Saturday Night Live) have commented that the Peanuts character Peppermint Patty is a lesbian (Peppermint Patties is a sometimes pejorative slang word for lesbians), although such an inference was never supported by the comic strip's content.

In 2006, the graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, was lauded by many media as among the best books of the year. Bechdel is the author of Dykes to Watch Out For, one of the best-known and longest-running LGBT comic strips.

In manga and anime, lesbian content is called shoujo-ai (literally: girl-love) whereas lesbian sex is called yuri, which may have a derogatory meaning. A main theme of the Japanese graphic novel Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō is the developing romance between characters Alpha and Kokone.


Anime
Main article: Yuri (term)
The third season of the anime series Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon S, features a lesbian relationship between the two heroines Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune.[23] However, the season was heavily censored when dubbed and shown on TV in the United States. Many of the scenes which would suggest this particular relationship were cut away and the two characters were depicted as cousins (this led to further controversy as many fans noticed the editing).[24][25] In many of the mangaka group Clamp's series such as Miyuki-chan in Wonderland or Card Captor Sakura, some characters are clearly lesbians, with fan speculation about others. In Miyuki-chan in wonderland, for example, Miyuki is constantly trying to escape the attention of scantily-clad female admirers;[26] while Tomoyo in CCS is famous for her ostensibly innocent but rather suspect obsession with playing "dress-up" with the lead character, Sakura.[27]


Video games
For more details on this topic, see ___, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender characters in video and computer games.
SaGa Frontier (a PlayStation title produced by Squaresoft) has a lesbian character named Asellus. Another character named Gina is a young girl who tailors Asellus' outfits, often discusses her deep attraction to Asellus and becomes her bride in one of the game's many endings. However, much related dialogue and some content has been edited out of the English language version.[28] The Playstation title Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (a prequel to Fear Effect) reveals that Hana Tsu Vachel, a main character in both games, had a sexual relationship with a female character named Rain Qin.


Exploitation in media
The portrayal of Lesbianism in media has often been to ostensably titillate male audiences [citation needed]. Some members of the LGBT community have argued that this trend in the usage of such plot devices is rather exploitive and unjustified. [29].


Feminism

Same-sex married couple at San Francisco Pride 2004.Historically, many lesbians have been involved in women's rights. Late in the 19th century, the term Boston marriage was used to describe romantic unions between women living together, often while contributing to the suffrage movement.

Same sex marraige has now been legalized in Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Canada, and South Africa but it is still not permitted by many countries. Continuing this tradition of inclusive acceptance, in 2004 Massachusetts became the first American state to legalize same-sex marriages.[30]

During the 1970s and 80s, with the emergence of modern feminism and the radical feminism movement, lesbian separatism became popular and groups of lesbian women gathered together to live in communal societies. Women such as Kathy Rudy in Radical Feminism, Lesbian Separatism, and Queer Theory remarked that, in her experience, stereotypes and the hierarchies to reinforce them developed in the lesbian separatist collective she lived in, ultimately leading her to leave the group.

During the 1990s, dozens of chapters of Lesbian Avengers were formed to press for lesbian visibility and rights.


Transwomen and trans-inclusion
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The relationship between lesbianism and lesbian-identified transgender or transsexual women has often been a turbulent one, with historically adversarial attitudes, but this seemed to be changing with the growing popularity of queer politics and analysis.

Some lesbian groups openly welcome transsexual women and may even welcome any member who identifies as lesbian, but some groups still do not welcome transwomen. The Lesbian Avengers have historically had a very inclusive policy.

Disputes in defining the term lesbian along with enforced exclusions from lesbian events and spaces have been numerous. Some who hold an exclusionist attitude often make reference to strong, typically second-wave feminist ideas such as those of Sheila Jeffreys, and Mary Daly, who has described post-operative male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals as constructed women. They may attribute transsexualism to mechanisms of patriarchy or do not recognize a MTF transsexual's identification as female and lesbian. By defining lesbian through these views, they subsequently defend the exclusion of women with transsexual or transgender-backgrounds.

Inclusionists claim these attitudes are inaccurate and derive from fear and distrust, or that the motivations and attitudes of transgender or transsexual lesbians are not well understood, and so they defend the inclusion of transwomen into lesbianism and lesbian spaces.

Both views are common. One incident due to this divisiveness arose during the early 1990s in Australia, when the wider lesbian community raised money to purchase a building devoted to lesbian women called The Lesbian Space Project. Before the organisation bought the building, a debate over inclusion of transwomen polarised the lesbian community, the building was later closed, the funds were invested and now generate money for an annual Australian lesbian grants program called LInc (Lesbians Incorporated).

An example often cited among the transgender and transsexual communities is the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, a well-known and primarily lesbian event restricted to womyn-born womyn. Camp Trans, an organization oriented towards transwomen, was started as a result.


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Stripping4BrettsTurbo

i take this in offense!
just because autoxtc doesnt have the best driving skills doesnt mean that all lesbians do!
i think that if she doesnt want any power mods thats fine. slower cars are easier for beginners anyway