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I think Sapphic fits better, yeah.
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Never heard of it, but if it's not archaic then I agree it can stay.
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I've seen some Twitter users that have the word sapphic on their bios, so if it's used that regularly on social media then it's not archaic.
Edited by Excessive-Menace THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!
Revert. Sapphic is far from an archaic word, people on Reddit and Twitter use it a lot.
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As far as I know at least, "sapphic" is a distinct term from "lesbian" (and definitely isn't an old-fashioned term), but I'm willing to take your word for it about it being an umbrella term. I say revert it.
Edited by ilovewildkratts1 Kaito is an alien and he is kinda spacey, coming from the universe to party and go crazy!
Bearing in mind that words only mean things because people use them that way: Yes, sapphic was an older synonym for lesbian (back when "lesbian" itself was used more broadly for any woman who had sex with women), then it was disused entirely for a while, then it was brought back with the intent of being used as Ikea Han describes above, and has in fact been used that way online for a while now. Dentaku's assertion that sapphic is, present tense, an archaic synonym for lesbian is inaccurate.
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A little while ago now, Dentaku made this edit
on YMMV.Bocchi The Rock for the LGBT Fanbase example.
All instances of "Sapphic" were replaced with "Lesbian", saying the former is an "old-fashioned" form of the latter. I reverted the change with the reason that Sapphic is actually an umbrella term for any woman who loves woman (which does include lesbians, but also labels like bisexual, demi, etc.)
And then just today, someone reverted it again with no edit reason.
Edited by IkeaHan