Touch-me-not is a concept from the Black lesbian community and I can’t speak to that at all. ‘Pillow princess’ is ridiculous. Your sexuality is you like someone else to get you off? How convenient and rude and lazy. You don’t even try? Don’t even offer? A stone butch is different— there can be a lot of reasons why a woman wouldn’t want anyone to touch her, but I can’t think of any trauma or injury which would result in only being able to receive.
This cutesy name for it also speaks to its inauthenticity. Like it was made up for tumblr, in fact. All the straight gals looking for their category of ‘queer’, this is really enticing eh? Lesbian princess! Excellent for the making of aesthetic mood boards, but without all that genital interaction. If one of my dyke friends told me she was dating a woman who identified as a pillow princess I would expect to hug her through some heartbreak later when princess found a dude.
We talk about this on the podcast this week, in fact. You are listening to our podcast, right?
I think it's so funny people, specifically cishet women view lesbians as unavailable to men and then act shitty to lesbians because they're jealous because they think that means we have to deal with less misogyny from men.
Sometimes you get women who go, condescendingly: "You're so lucky, you don't have to deal with dating men."
But like, half the time, they're not even talking specifically about dating men, they're just talking about dealing with misogyny but also, have you ever heard of internalized lesbophobia? Have you ever heard of being closeted? Have you ever heard of abuse? Have you ever considered that maybe we're lucky we get to delight in women and that's what you should congratulate us for? Have you ever considered misogyny is embedded in this fucking society and that lesbians, who're considered "unattainable women" to men are an extreme fetish for loads of cis men and whether or not we date men doesn't mean we get to escape most or even any of the misogyny you're talking about. Like, some of these women would be stunned if they actually listened to lesbians and fucking dykes in general and acknowledged the misogyny we face.
But no, so many times they shut down the conversation before it even begins and make it clear they believe we're lucky for being dykes "because it means we have to deal with men less." Like, bitch, please, that's not how it works, just sit in your ignorance instead of sharing it. It makes me pissed, ngl.
i maintain that a league of their own is the best butch representation i’ve had my entire life. the sneaking boxers, talking about girls, dealing with long hair even though it’s shit (i see you jess), they’re so me coded.