Good luck with this one
Three residents are suing a lesbian group for appropriating a term that they feel should apply only to people who come from their island, i.e., “Lesbians.” They just don’t like it when Lesbians are confused with lesbians. (To my knowledge, lesbians are unconcerned about this confusion.)
About 90,000 people live on Lesbos, and I don’t know any of them. But I do know dozens of lesbians, and if only 5% of the world’s women are lesbians, there are 169 million more of them. Whether or not the Lesbians prevail in court, the demographics of popular speech are against them.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
It’s probably the pinnacle of political incorrectness (to say nothing of insensitivity), but to highjack a phrase from Howard Stern… “…200 years from now, it will still be funny.” Those folks in Lesbos really ought to go get themselves a life, or perhaps there’s a Guinness Book Of World Records category that includes most ridiculous lawsuit brought. They just won, and now, their 15 minutes is up.