Another win against patriarchy.
Due to our country's long-standing love affair with misogyny, it is not surprising that lesbian womxn and their experiences are often trivialized. And because everything misogynistic is amplified on the internet, this has historically been true of lesbian representation online. And what better way to render nuance of lesbian experience invisible than through the objectifying lens of porn?
But no more: Google has finally modified"lesbian" searches to include more informative results, from its endless supply of typically pornographic ones. Twitter accountled a hashtag campaign named after it, spelling out how Google searches for"gay" and"trans" brought up educational results such as Wikipedia pages and articles, while the deck for anyone searching"lesbian" was stacked with sexualized, male-gaze pics of lesbians.
Fanchon Mayaudon-Nehlig, a spokesperson for the #seolesbienne campaign said she first launched the #seolesbienne hashtag when her wife helped her realize her shame about using the French word"lesbienne" in public."I discovered that I wasn't the only one: this feeling is shared with too many lesbians!"
Mayaudon-Nehlig went on to describe the experience of entering"lesbian" into Google as a teen hoping to explore her orientation, saying she was"disgusted" at what she found."I was not prepared, and it was unfair to discover so many porn websites," she explained. The #seolesbienne campaign gained further traction when it was discovered that, beneath Google's Pride banner commemorating the Stonewall Riots' 50th anniversary, was porn. The banner stopped appearing for lesbian-related content, and Google reportedly never explained why,
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