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One type of woman loves women and earns her living in an executive or professional capacity. The proper label for her is "lesbian" or alternatively a dyke, sister, homosexual, queer, gay woman, or per-

son.

And of course there are factory workers who love women. If they are themselves women, they may be called "lesbians" or alternatively a dyke, sister, homosexual, queer, gay woman, or person.

Age is a critical factor in any system of classification of human beings. Therefore, those women under 30 who love women will be called "lesbian" or alternatively a dyke, sister, homosexual, queer, gay woman, or person; while those over 30 will be called "lesbian" or alternatively a dyke, sister, homosexual, queer, gay woman, or person.

There are women who pur-

IN AMERIKA THEY CALL US DYKES...

In the premiere issue of The Purple Cow last July, I was surprised and pleased to find an item about the Columbus Pacesetters, the football team I play for. In the article I was referred to (much to my amusement) as, "a sterling "a sterling example of a Dyke in action." This description was written without my prior knowledge by a friend of mine. Well, I like publicity because I like women to come to our games. So, I was surbegan expressing shock and indignaprised and not pleased when friends tion at this presumably libelous description of me. They would never call me a dyke. They were sure I wasn't one. I wasn't going to let people think I was, was I?

am,

I was. I am. We seem to have a semantic problem. Because I chase their clothes at the Limited or thought that this item, in a gay Madisons and who love women. They woman's newsletter, was saying, "this are called "lesbians" or alternative-is a gay sister that plays for this ly a dyke, sister, homosexual, queer, not, "this is a brutal, mangay woman, or person. Those who buy their clothes at Dunhill instead are called "lesbian" or alternatively a dyke, sister, homosexual, queer, gay woman, or person. And that vast group of women who love women and obtain their wardrobe from Goodwill are known as "lesbians" or alternatively a dyke, sister, homosexual, queer, gay woman, or person.

I must apologize for the incompleteness of this list. There are in fact a number of women who simply cannot be fit into any of the above catagories. But fortunately, these unclassifiable women who love women may be placed under the heading miscellaneous and called "lesbians" or alternatively a dyke, sis ter, homosexual, queer, gay woman, or person.

by Dinae Trubov

ish freak" (me??) Because I refer to all gay women as Dykes, as a political stand, not because they meet all or even indeed any of the specifications on someone's stereotype checklist. Straight people who were afraid of us and didn't know what to do with us gave us the name because they thought we should be hurt and shamed. Since then we've thought and talked it over together and decided that no one should convince us that we are sick, or immoral, or criminal. We decided that it was alright to be gay and we know we've made the choice to express it and we like and are proud of ourselves after we seperate what is real fromall the myths we were told. So, we took the word away from those who would hurt us and we use it to express our common identity and our pride, because we are strong enough to do it and because if we

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