Pursuing someone who does not want to be pursued is sexual harassment, AT BEST.

If you're relying on "you KNOW a lesbian CAN'T be attracted to you" to stop straight cis men from harassing lesbians, or to "prove" that it was unwanted and wrong....

(1) A straight cis dude who's already harassing someone is already ignoring boundaries.

(2) A LOT of them still think that they're the magical guy who even a lesbian would be attracted to. Or that everyone has an exception.

But most importantly, what really fucking kills me:

(3) You're also "proving" that it's totally fine for that straight cis dude to sexually harass (at best) straight/bi/pan women. Because they COULD theoretically, be attracted to him.

You're paying for *your* hypothetical safety with *theirs.*

I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again:

Bi and pan women have the highest rates of sexual assault of any orientation.

By far.

If you argue that "bi/pan lesbians will make men think they can assault lesbians," you are essentially saying, "if straight cis dudes associate lesbians with bi/pan women, they will assault lesbians too!"

THIS IS NOT A GREAT LOOK.

If I knew of an organization that helped bi/pan people recover from sexual assault, or helped prevent the sexual assault of bi/pan people, I'd say something like, "people who have made that argument should maybe throw them a couple bucks."

But I'm pretty sure that there are no resources for anything like that.

Just the stats themselves are pretty thoroughly silenced, much less the idea of doing anything about it.

Here, though, are infographics I've made on those stats.