First-World Lesbian Problems (Part II)

• Everyone assuming you can fix their car.

• Wanting to be in the Dykes on Bikes but having neither a motorbike or a motorbike licence.

• Deciding whether to be on a float during Mardi Gras, where you won’t get to see all of the parade. Or to try to watch it from the crowd, where you won’t get to see all of the parade.

• If you are butch; being told you look like a man.

• If you are a femme; being told that you don’t look like a lesbian.

•  Other women thinking you actually want to sneak a peek at their disgustingly sweaty body in the gym change rooms.

• Having your mother still trying to set you up with eligible male bachelors, believing that it just takes ‘the right man to come along’.

• Pretending that you haven’t looked up the ‘Interested In’ info on Facebook of all your female co-workers.

• Being told you are too pretty to be a lesbian by someone who is too stupid to see that those two points are not linked.

• Trying to find a roommate you are not attracted to.

• Guests suddenly becoming uncomfortable after seeing a turkey baster in your kitchen drawer.

• Being informed that your sexuality “is just not natural” by a woman who had a C-section for her IVF child.

• Listening to your friends plan their weddings.

• The possibility of your partner having the same first name as you.

• Having to exert absolute self-control maintaining eye-contact when in conversation with a cleavage-bearing woman.

• Not being able to grow your fingernails long.

First-World Lesbian Problems

• Sharing a wardrobe.

• Having to explain to straight people that neither of you is the ‘man’ in the relationship.

• Having to decide whether to chop off your hair and be recognized as a lesbian, or keep your hair long and be assumed straight.

• Listening to one of your family members awkwardly refer to your partner as your ‘friend’ or ‘roommate’.

• Having to converse with a work colleague who keeps casually mentioning Ellen Degeneres as a way of trying to tactfully decipher your sexuality.

• Being asked by acquaintances, “Do you have a boyfriend?”

• Knowing that the L Word character you like the most is not the same character you are most like.

• Getting distracted by porn every time you Google anything remotely lesbian related.

• Never knowing if it is yet safe to drop the word ‘she’ in, after continually using the gender-neutral term “my partner.”

• PMS:  Pre-Menstrual Synchronisation.

• Trying to slink out of a room when the discussion topic suddenly becomes “How do lesbians have sex?”

• When saying “my girlfriend and I”, wondering if the person listening understands you mean partner and not a ‘girl friend’.

• Consistently finding yourself attracted to the only straight girl at the gay bar.

• Having to again listen to a man ask the disgustingly inevitable; “Can I watch?”

• Wearing your girlfriend’s wedgie-inclined pair of underwear by mistake.

• Deciding what your kids will call each of their mums to avoid confusion.

• Trying to participate in a conversation with your straight friends about “that hot guy with the dimples.”

• Australia’s biggest first-world problem: Tony Abbott.