"Lesbians with Canes" Question

An Extremely Serious Thing to ask, be aware of the dykes on attack!

It's called Nordic walking BTW

[quote] someone posted a pic of canes, or to be more exact, metal walking sticks %0D %0D I posted it. They are walking sticks/poles and they have replaced canes among the lesbians. I know 4 lesbians who are now walking-pole bound, for various disabilities/aging annoyances. One supposedly had strokes because she vomited too much (she was talking massive doses of painkillers which were not prescribed for her. That'll make you puke ). %0D %0D Another has degenerative joint disease.%0D %0D Then there's fallen arches/plantar fascititis/flat feet/bunions/metatasitis. %0D %0D Then there's a mystery disease which remains undiagnosed which presents with "dizziness and balance problems."%0D %0D The walking poles are all the rage now because they are adjustable, you don't need a doctor's script and you can buy them on auction sites selling used stuff.

I first heard about the lesbian-cane connection here on DL and didn't really get where it came from, as I'd never observed high cane usage in the lesbian community.

I finally encountered a lez with a cane. She could not have been more stereotypical if she tried: mullet, flannel shirt, overweight, men's shoes. This was in Petsmart, so I imagine she probably had a couple of golden labs stuffed in the back of her Subaru as well. It was so hard not to laugh because I kept thinking of all the "cane face" DL remarks.

Yes, R4, that is just hilarious, you stupid fool

[quote]mullet, flannel shirt, overweight, men's shoes. This was in Petsmart,

Describes many, many , many straight women. Did you go up and ask her if she liked pussy? Get back to us on that will ya. Thanks.

[quote]Describes many, many , many straight women.

Oh, please.

my mother has had trouble walking lately and sometimes uses a cane. It's taken everything in me to keep from asking her if she likes pussy now.

I laughed out loud R8. Or as the kids say, LOL.

What a laugh riot, R8!%0D %0D It really is hysterically funny and hilarious when someone has trouble walking!%0D %0D what fun!

/metatasitis%0D %0D That was supposed to be metatarsalgia. I have cancer on the mind and it morphed into a whole different word.

R7 has never been to the midwest or the south.

The lesbian cane references on DL arise from a famous EST in which a lesbian, who used a cane, ordered bread pudding at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse

Lesbians are over-represented as cane users, which is my observation. I laugh every time, and wonder how many cane-using lesbians I would have had to observe to have come up with "cane face"?

I started the cane reference and fibromyalgia stuff years ago. I was in health care at the time at a major super-busy uni hospital in NYC and couldn't help noticing that fat women made up most of the "fibromyalgia" brigade, that a lot of them were lesbians and that lesbians used canes far more often than men or straight women of the same age. I told a physical therapist friend and he told me it was what he saw as well. After that, we would sort of shrug when we would get an overweight lesbian patient who used a cane and had fibromyalgia. %0D %0D We believed they were the most unhappy not-very-sick people we'd ever seen. I mean, we saw lots of patients who were unhappy. They were seriously ill or they were having problems with the insurance company or whatever. But the overweight cane-weilding fibromyalgic lesbians just seemed so unhappy about all of life. It was sad.

Whenever I visit my smalltown midwest hometown, I am shocked how many straight women look like dykes, especially in the winter.%0D %0D That said, I gleefully report all personal sightings of be-caned lesbians to several close friends.

I thought it was hilarious when I first found DL and read about the lesbians with canes because I'd actually experienced such a thing. A couple of years before I was right out of high school and working at a Blockbuster inside of a Kroger. A lesbian couple would come in regularly -- and one of the women was always in one of the motorized shopping carts. She would ride around the store and when she wanted a movie that was high on the shelf, she would use a cane to knock it down! It was frustrating, because she would always cause a mess. I'd offer help but she would just ignore me. Her partner was hilarious, though.

Yes, having severe arthritis and not being able to walk normally or well or sometimes not at all and a motorized cart is necessary is all very funny and hilarious.%0D %0D And not being able to walk well or normally because of degeerative joint disease where a cane is needed is uproariously funny.

The "cane" idea comes from images like this.

I remember something years ago involving a lesbian, cane, bus and Hawaii

OP, simple answer: A lot of lesbians like motorcycles. They have motorcycle accidents, and then they need a cane.

I thought the original explanation was that so many of them played softball and all that sliding into home plate ruined their hips.

R5/10/18- one pissed off dyke with a cane, a cat and fibromyassia.

Base-sliding, cycle-riding lesbians

[quote]I thought the original explanation was that so many of them played softball and all that sliding into home plate ruined their hips.

Sequel idea!:

A Cane Of Their Own

Not just any cane. Pure cane, sugah.

OP, you fucking asshole. Just when this DL cliche finally dies, you have to resurrect it.

So, gentlemen: do you swish when you walk? Do you lisp? When you open your mouth, does a purse drop out? Do you secretly put on make-up every morning, and shave your armpit/leg/pubic hair? Do you pluck your eyebrows? Drown in cologne? Pre-lube? Can you suck the chrome off a trailer hitch? Do you wear a cravat? Capri pants? Smoke with a cigarette holder?

Are you light in the loafers?

R27 -- you forgot "dial the phone with a pencil."

R23, sorry, I'm not a dyke, I hate cats, and I do not have fibromialgia.%0D %0D I am just a decent human being who has the human decency not to make fun of people who have trouble walking due to degenerative joint disease and/or severe arthritis.%0D %0D Mobility handicaps are not funny in the least.%0D

[quote]Mobility handicaps are not funny in the least.%0D %0D Yet lesbians with canes are funny.

R27 - don't forget the caftan and turkey meatballs!

[quote]OP, you fucking asshole. Just when this DL cliche finally dies, you have to resurrect it.%0D %0D Like old lesbians with canes, the cliche will never die, but slowly keep moving on.

r29 is a humorless cunt.

[quote]not funny in the least

Are you sure you're not a dyke?

R29, you don't belong here. DL is POINTLESS BITCHERY. I have stated my boundaries.

The humorless among us are so compelled to respond to this thread, they're willing to risk the fibromyalgia flare-up in their fingertips that the typing might cause.

[quote]Mobility handicaps are not funny in the least.

A bunch of clowns in a tiny car say otherwise.

My step mom said she has fibromyalgia. I mentioned that I had read an article that the disease might not be real but an 'over-diagnosis' of doctors looking to make money.

My step mom took offense. My dad, standing behind her (he's a doctor) nodded agreement with me without saying anything.

r38, is your stepmom secretly a dyke?

Probably. She wears the pants in the relationship. He goes along with it because she pulls in millions per year.

The lesbians you see with canes are NOT using canes because of 'fibromialgia', R38.%0D %0D You are very mixed up and dimwitted.%0D %0D People who use canes use them because of degenerative joint diseases and severe arthritis, and a wearing away of all of the cartilege between certain joints (osteoarthritis).%0D %0D Fibromilagia is a feeling of pain thruout the nerve endings of the body - it does not cause anyone to use a cane.

[quote]The lesbians you see with canes are NOT using canes because of 'fibromialgia', [R38]. You are very mixed up and dimwitted.

I never said they were. I was responding to R36's comment about fibromialgia.

I'm not mixed up or dimwitted. I'm not talking about lesbians with canes at all. I'm talking about a stepmom who is married to a man.

You read like you have the intellect of Sarah Palin.

Sorry if that is sensitive to you. I feel your pain.

Pity Tracy Morgan didn't make a lesbian-with-canes joke. Now *that* would've been hi-larious. He wouldn't have been vilified on DL, he'd have been canonized!

Great place to meet other canefaces.

Oh, come on. I find it hard to believe I am the [italic]only one[/italic] on DataLounge who is intrigued by the "Lesbians with Canes" phenomenon, but has more questions than answers.

r38, is it your father who also thinks PMS is imaginary?

R45 is posting from a parallel universe.

No, R46, sorry to disappoint. He's a doctor who does not think fibromialgia is real. It has no bearing on any other diagnosis. He's not the only doctor to think that either. And it has nothing to do with lesbians or canes. Enough of that topic, you can go back to defending lesbians from others. I never attacked them.

Oops! That was me at R45 because my thread cue, at the time I wrote that, was showing only one response to my query.

But please carry on - all responses are much appreciated!

Canefaces want the cane thing to go away, but it actually never will. EVER. Canefaces are here to stay.

Gayface will never go away, and almost all gay men have it, even the ones that think they are so "straight acting". So what's your point?

R48, what type of doctor is he? cardiologist?%0D internal medicine? ob-gyn? anesthesiologist?

Wow. There sure is quite a bit of wide-ranging information so far, and all of it interesting. I think, however, it might be helpful if I further elaborate on one aspect of my original post:

The woman I referred to had no motor impairment at all. Although she appeared to be about thirty to fifty pounds over what is widely considered to be the ideal weight for someone of her height, she did not seem to be at all negatively impacted by it. She also never indicated at any time that she had fibromyalgia or anything similar. On the contrary, she always seemed to be in excellent health. I can%E2%80%99t remember her ever indicating otherwise. In fact, many times when we found ourselves working together on the same project, she would mention that she felt so good mainly because she always made an effort to eat food she prepared herself from the freshest and least processed ingredients she could buy. I had no problem believing her about it because even though she was in her early fifties then, I wouldn%E2%80%99t have thought to question it if she%E2%80%99d told me she was in her thirties.

[quote][R48], what type of doctor is he? cardiologist? internal medicine? ob-gyn? anesthesiologist?

It doesn't matter in this discussion. You'd tear him down for his opinion, no matter his profession, I can already tell. And I am of no desire to defend him.

Clearly fibromialgia is a very touchy subject with you. Just know that not all doctors think it is real.

As for me? I don't know and don't care, so I'm not picking up that debate.

R54, I am not the one who finds fibromialgia a 'very touchy subject'. You have me mixed up with another poster.%0D %0D I'm just curious as to what type of doctor your father is. Very strange that you refuse to say.

I don't think it's relevant and I know enough of this site to not take the bait.

Believe what you want of my dad, I posted a link to a fibromialgia research doctor who initially helped diagnosed the disease who now doubts it. That should be enough for this discussion.

what a friggin' WEIRDO R56 is

[quote]I am not the one who finds fibromialgia a 'very touchy subject'.

Uh, when you pretended R38 was saying something he didn't say and started an argument over what you imagined, yes, you are the touchy one.

[quote]Very strange that you refuse to say.

No it's not - he didn't say because you're too stupid to read and understand his original post, so you'd no doubt like to put down his father and start an argument over that, too.

Stop being either stupid or dishonest, whichever it is. Your meager intellectual skills leave you transparent.

R41/52/55/57 is just one of those unbalanced stalker types.

This is why DL is anonymous - to protect the sane users from freaks like that.

r55 the author info at the bottom of the link said 'chiropractic physician'.

Since many people here feel that is an oxymoron, that might be why the person didn't mention it.

I think the argument is whether or not these people are psychosomatic or whether it is a general body response to extreme stress, not whether it is a separate disease of unknown origin.

Fuck off, R58, your post is so convoluted and idiotic - you do not know what you are talking about. %0D %0D Fibromialgia should not be discussed in the same topic as use of a cane. They are unrelated.%0D %0D R59, there is nothing about my posts that stalkerish.%0D %0D Just because I want to know what kind of doctor R56's father is.%0D %0D I had a feeling his father might be a chiropracter. And the article he linked to for us is authored by a chiropracter.%0D %0D A chiropracter should not be believed about anything. %0D %0D By the way R59, you are too stupid to live.%0D %0D R58, I was pointing out that use of a cane has nothing to do with having fibromialgia. That fact does not mean that fibromaialgia is a touchy subject for me. You apparently lact the powers of reasoning and abstract thinking, R58.

R61 = lunatic

Fibromyalgia: A Touchy Subject

I finally have the title for my new book that will tell fibromyalgia sufferers how to identify their tender points.

Thank you, R61 and everyone at Datalounge!

While I too have seen a couple of overweight lesbians with canes in my lifetime, I think we make so many jokes about it here because we want to subconsciously project penis envy onto the lesbians, and the cane is an obvious phallic symbol.

But just want to confirm that the phrase "Cane Face" refers to a long and somewhat flat-ish face and has nothing to do with a walking aid.

I've seen lesbians with canes but I've never seen a slim lesbian with a cane. Mobility problems can be expected when you're carrying around enough weight to be two people.

I didn't start the whole cane thing, but I did coin the phrase "caneface" in my notrorios thread, "Caneface, Who's got it?

i've noticed that fibromyalgics are mostly middle-aged, never-been-married straight women.%0D it's caused by menopause, depression, bitterness, and cat litter.

If I remember correctly there is an AbFab episode where one of the Two Fat Ladies is walking with a cane in classic dyke style. As a gay man, I adore our lesbian sisters, and deplore the vicious misogyny on DL.

It's a penis-substitution thing.

What would you say are some of the defining characteristics of cane-face?

There's a lesbian w/ a cane memorial in Philadelphia.....

Caneface is basically that butch look in the face that bulldykes have. It's a certain mannish look that many dykes have. Usually it is coupled with canevoice ala Jodie fawsther. They'll say things like "yesh"....kinda of a dyke lisp.

Is this one?

Lol

Cane faces love canes because it supports their weight and is for swatting at people when you are upset.

Do they use their canes for anything sexual?

oh my!

Sure, we Lezzies love our canes!

In fact, we often use them in a fun-filled initiation ceremony we have here a Girls Juvenile Hall

Just some good-natured girl-on-girl fun to break up the monotony of Juvy