Honey, what you're selling I ain't buying

It's no secret that certain men, despite knowing that one is a lesbian, will try to chat lesbians up no matter what; this comes from the precious male ego, too sensitive to acknowledge and accept that two women can be in a relationship and not need a man. Even men realise that they have a complex when it comes to their egos, after all Axe was called Ego for a number of years before its name change a few years ago. Now, it doesn't matter whether you're a lesbian or straight; the world is still dominated by men, these men of power are unwilling to give women a foot in the door as they know that some of these ambitious and educated women may just be on their way to a position of even greater power than their own. If you need proof that the aforementioned is true, then look no further than Hollywood where the majority of leading roles are still being given to men and as Dame Helen Mirren has famously said in a speech at the Hollywood Reporter's Sherry Lansing Leadership Award in 2010, "I resent in my life the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of some very brilliant female ones ... However, with all due respect to you many brilliant and successful women in this room ... really not too much has changed in the canon of Hollywood filmmaking that continues to worship at the altar of the 18 to 25-year-old male and his penis". In South Africa many lesbians face the harsh reality of men, their egos and refusal to believe that women don't need men for companionship, love, relationships or sex and that despite what some believe, that lesbianism is not a disease. Lesbians in South Africa face beatings and "corrective" rape despite constitutional guarantees of protection. Lesbians and transsexuals are routinely raped, tortured and subjected to other forms of violence and humiliation. A recent Action Aid report reiterates accounts that lesbians in South Africa have repeatedly given of being raped by men to “cure” them of lesbianism.You can read more about South African lesbians being exposed to curative rape in a short article about the issue: Lesbians exposed to curative rape