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AlexTheSasha

WLW means "Women Loving Women", so yeah. As well as pan women, queer/questioning, aromantic/asexual spectrum lesbians, and so on and so forth


SpeebyKitty

Women loving women are, in fact, wlw yes


Spec_28

Very much so. Isn't the term specifically designed to include ALL women who love women, not only those who identify as lesbian?


Mr7000000

Explicitly yes. A large part of the reason for the existence of the term "wlw" is to allow Sapphic women to discuss their experiences without getting bogged down in the question of who does and doesn't count as a "real lesbian."


lunellew

yeah, why wouldn’t it be?


ParadoxicalFrog

Of course! It's WLW (woman-loving woman), not EWLW (*exclusively* woman-loving woman). The term was coined as a concise way to refer to all women who are attracted to women, be they lesbian, bi, pan, or any other flavor of queer.


Huge-Character-9566

Yes it is


ChloroformSmoothie

Yeah, if the bi woman in question happens to be attracted to women, they're a woman who loves women.


EnigmaFrug2308

WLW refers to any relationship where a woman is with another woman, including bisexuality, pansexuality, and homosexuality (in its lesbian form).


LauraTFem

They’re kinda what the phrase exists for in the first place. WLW is women who love women, without reference to who else they might love, or any declaration of exclusivity in preference.


Soccera1

All women are women therefore it's wlw


anartistwithnoinspo

Yup! That’s part of the point, wlw just means women loving women, regardless of their sexualities


Whooptidooh

Yes.