Lesbians: what if you're scared to let her know you're interested?

29 Feb 2024 · 4 min

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The video uses a short story about two lesbian characters—Sheba the sheep and Geraldine the giraffe—to illustrate how fear of rejection can prevent both parties from expressing romantic interest. Sheba is unsure if Geraldine likes her, while Geraldine is afraid to reveal her feelings, leading to a stalemate. The narrator then references scientific research on female sheep, showing that subtle signals (standing still) often fail to convey interest, contrasting with more overt male behavior. This analogy underscores how misreading or under‑communicating signals can block potential lesbian relationships. The video concludes by promoting the Conscious Girlfriend Academy, a program that offers dating and relationship skills specifically for lesbians, queer women, and women‑aligned non‑binary people, encouraging viewers to enroll to learn how to communicate desire, set relationship goals, and overcome fear.

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So I want to introduce you to a couple friends of mine and tell you about the dilemma they are facing. This is Sheba. She is a lesbian sheep. And this is Geraldine. She's a lesbian giraffe. And Sheba has a crush on Geraldine, but she doesn't know for sure if Geraldine is interested And Geraldine really likes Sheba, but she's really scared to say something. Because what if Sheba doesn't feel that way? Maybe it would mess up their friendship. And so Sheba and Geraldine are going along and spending time together, and Sheba's thinking, wow, I just can't tell how Geraldine feels. But I don't want to say something. I'm And Geraldine is thinking, well, I guess Sheba doesn't like me because, you know, I keep kind of hinting by standing a little closer to her, and I gave her a longer hug, and yet nothing happened. So what gives? Okay, so let me tell you about some research that was actually done on homosexuality in animals. And they did it with female sheep. Sorry, sorry there, Sheba. These researchers were trying to see how one sheep lets another sheep know that they are interested. And they found that lots of male sheep, also known as rams, were very obvious about their interest. And a male ram would just go mount another ram. But the female sheep, what they would do to indicate interest was Just stand still. So here is Sheba. She is just standing still, and nothing much is happening. And Geraldine here really doesn't want to get rejected, so she's not going to make the first move. And so guess what? This beautiful potential love is just. Just not going to happen. So how can you deal with this if you relate to Sheba's challenge or Geraldine's challenge? Well, we got lots of tools and tricks for you over in the Conscious Girlfriend Academy, which helps lesbians and queer women and all self-identified women or non-binary people who love women or want to, to actually learn to date and create the lesbian relationship of your dreams. So that Sheila and Geraldine can talk to each other more intimately and find out, hey, are we actually compatible? Uh, what do you think? Are you attracted? Well, I find you really cute. Well, okay, but that's not enough. Uh, what do you want in a relationship? Well, I want something deep and long-lasting. It's really important to me that we be able to talk things through. Shiba, oh yeah, I want that too, but honestly, uh, sometimes I get scared and I want to hide. Geraldine, thank you so much for telling me that. I think we should go take some Conscious Girlfriend classes together and learn more skills. Shiba, yay! Thank you so much for suggesting And so off they go, and we hope that they will see you on the other side in the Conscious Girlfriend Academy, where we support lesbian love.