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Rebecca Cox

‘But, who’s the man?' As a queer woman, this is the question I most get asked

Rebecca Cox - (Matt Writtle)

If you saw me and my girlfriend walking down the street you’d think to yourself: ‘I can see who wears the trousers in that relationship!’.

And if you were a forward thinking, sensible person with eyes, you’d then think: ‘it’s both of them!’, because the chances are, that’s what we’re both wearing. However, in the last five years I’ve been in relationships with a woman, followed by a man, followed by a woman, and I know from experience (and uninvited commentary) that there are still a lot of people who when they see two women together think: ‘one of you must be the boss in this relationship. One of you must be the man’.

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