One Twitter user shared a link to the document on June 1 in honor of Pride Month. Reading that masterdoc was like the biggest weight off my chest.' 'I read over it while in class at college and I ended up leaving to the bathroom to break down sobbing with relief when I realized I related to almost every single bullet point and that I was a lesbian. 'I remember questioning whether I was a lesbian or not for a long time and then I stumbled upon a link to that masterdoc,' someone else shared. I've gone through it and highlighted all the parts that match me so I can revisit it should I ever be in a situation where I doubt myself,' one Reddit user wrote last year. 'This is without a doubt my favorite Google Doc. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service.'īut the document has been shared across social media, including on Reddit and Twitter, where it has received plenty of praise from fans who insist it has changed their lives. The original link to the document no longer works - clicking on it leads to a Google page that says: 'We're sorry. Life-changing: A number of women say the document made them realize they are lesbians But we don’t want to actually date or have sex with a man ever.' 'Attraction is often coerced by societal conditioning and some lesbians have hypothetical attraction to men due to compulsory heterosexuality. It’s possible to recognize a man IS attractive but not be attracted TO him,' Luz explains. Subsequent sections better explore how cultural conditioning toward heterosexuality can have lesbians doubting their sexual orientation because it doesn't seem as clear cut as they feel it should be.
Luz later notes that 'many lesbians STILL struggle with compulsory heterosexuality even when they know they don’t want men.' 'Compulsory heterosexuality is what forces lesbians to struggle through learning the difference between what you’ve been taught you want (being with men) and what you do want (being with women), which is why so many lesbians have dated men at some point,' she writes. Checklist: The second to last section, 'You might be a lesbian if TL DR,' features a list of signs that a woman's attraction to men may be the result of compulsory heterosexuality