An On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library, Duke University Bunch, Charlotte. In our society which defines all people and institutions for the benefit of the rich, white male, the Lesbian is in revolt. In revolt because she defines herself in terms of women and rejects the male definitions of how she should feel, act, look, and live. To be a Lesbian is to love oneself, woman, in a culture that denegrates and despises women.
Lesbianism puts women first while the society declares the male supreme.
Lesbianism threatens male supremacy at its core. When politically conscious and organized, it is central to destroying our sexist, racist, capitalist, imperialist system. They also say that Lesbians are not real women, so a real woman is one who gets fucked by men. The woman-identified woman commits herself to other women for political, emotional, physical, and economic support. Women are important to her.