Hello, welcome back to my blog. My name is A.J and I am a lesbian. It is currently lesbian visibility week and I want to talk about something real quick. What I am talking about today is headcanons, specifically the lesbian headcanon. Earlier in April, I talked about how headcanons don’t hurt anybody if it is not erasing anything canon.
First things first. What is a headcanon?
By definition, a headcanon is a sub branch of fanon. Basically, it’s when someone creates something that is fanon in their mind, it becomes a headcanon! Headcanon is not always accepted in the general part of the fandom and it stays in someone’s head and becomes a personal headcanon. A headcanon does not hurt anybody if there is NO canon erasure!!
An example of a good headcanon: Lizzie Saltzman is a lesbian
An example of a bad headcanon: Josie Saltzman is a lesbian
The difference between these two statements are that Lizzie is canon sapphic, but she is currently unlabeled, therefore we can say she’s a lesbian if that’s how someone wants to see her.
Josie on the other hand is canonically pansexual. It’s been stated by the actress of Josie, Kaylee Bryant and the show runners. Saying “Josie is a lesbian,” would be erasing her pansexuality, therefore it would be pan erasure or anti-pansexual.
Another example would be saying Hope Mikaelson is a lesbian. That would be inaccurate and biphobic because Hope is canonically bisexual. That would be bi erasure.
Someone saying a character with a non canon sexuality is a lesbian doesn’t hurt anyone. And nobody is forcing you to agree, either. There’s a difference between a headcanon and completely erasing something that already exists.
People who have been with men can realize they’re a lesbian. It’s called compulsory heterosexuality (attached is a video) Or comphet for short.
What is comphet? The definition of comphet:
To explain comphet in a short sentence, it is essentially the idea that women should find a man, by societal standards. I myself, have been someone who’s suffered from comphet.
Headcanons such as sexuality does not hurt anyone if the character doesn’t have a canon sexuality. If someone wants to see Lizzie Saltzman as a lesbian, they can. You shouldn’t take that away from somebody. At all.
This is all I have to say for this matter. Just please know that some headcanons are super personal to some people and invalidating it hurts not just the person who has the headcanon, but others around as well.
Thanks for reading.
A.J
Happy lesbian visibility week.
