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sub-butch-blues · 1 month
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luckyheart-67676 · 1 year
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Made some Lesbian sun and moon aesthetic biflux flags
Because I liked the aesthetic of the butch and femme Lesbian flags
Sun/butch
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Moon/femme
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cannabisbutch · 2 years
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Butchbears are some of the most powerful beings in the galaxy
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poisonbutch · 2 years
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re: avoiding other butches & femmes post - yea me too. i know that i'm gonna have to grin and bear being gendered as female if other butches & femmes, and i don't know if i'm a lesbian or not but for Trauma Reasons the second somebody tries to push me into a label i'm gone.
u get it. honestly im kinda tired of people just assuming that if theyre butch or femme, that theyre automatically a woman and/or a lesbian. like ..... youre assuming that someone is something without really even asking, and if were going to build a community off of not assuming someones gender/sexuality/etc. shouldnt we just Not Assume? Huh?
ive had people get upset with me and tell me that i cant use butch because im not a lesbian. i tried to reply in a normal manner and be like "hey.. actually thats not right and ppl in the queer community historically have used it. that also feeds into terf rhetoric too." they asked for sources, and when i gave them what they asked for, i was told they werent valid because they were from tumblr. like, ok, then you give me sources that are: easily accessible and not warped by terfs or cis white gays about queer history, buddy.
i didnt say that to them, but i wish i had. i basically lost a few friends, then basically a friend group just because i started using butch as an identifier. which, by the way, i had considered and thought about after reading stone butch blues. oh leslie were really in it now.
anyways. sorry bout the rant there i am just passionate about this
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genderqueerdykes · 3 months
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honestly as a butch, i just gotta say it: that "chivalrous knight in shining armor" crap is objectifying as hell and it's not fun, cute, or validating to apply to us, it provides a burden for us to bear, it makes us paranoid, tired, weary and feel like we're being reduced to a stereotype, or like we're being forced into a mold.
i'm not a knight just because i'm a transmasculine person who looks tough and can theoretically protect femme queers. i'm literally just standing here, being transsexual. i'm not inherently "chilvarous," i don't have any obligation to protect people just because i adopted the label "butch". what if i'm weak? what if the butch needs to be protected? what if the butch is disabled, traumatized, or just scared? i'm a wheelchair user.
why can't femmes protect their butches? why does it always have to be the butch being the chivalrous knight in our yearning posts and poems? why do we have to weave a performative ass narrative of the masculine partner swooping in to protect their defenseless feminine partner? how the HELL is this progressive or subversive at all? this is literally reinventing the binary.
the way the (white) cis lesbian community treats its butches is alienating as all hell. we are not here just to protect other people. we are not inherently protectors. we are not all strong. we are allowed to be weak. we are allowed to be scared. we are allowed to be hurt. we don't HAVE to protect our femmes, if we like femmes at all. not every butch is attracted to femme people in the first place.
butch isn't a lifestyle, it's not a set personality type. it's not a specific set of actions; it's just queer masculinity, that can be expressed by a multitude of queers for a multitude of reasons. it's not one specific set of traits. masculinity is not just found in protecting others and acting tough, it's also in being soft, vulnerable, weak and tender.
just let butches be people, don't turn us into objects before we even get out of the gates. all of this removes the human element of being butch. if the queer community can't afford that, we can't get it from anywhere, because we sure as hell aren't seen as humans by cisheteronormative society.
don't force me to see myself as a knight when i'm the one who needs help just because i'm masculine, or just because i'm a man.
butches need help, too.
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elysianmadness · 7 days
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Happy lesbian visibility week/day to every lesbian around the world! I hope you're going to have a wonderful week, wherever you are. Your lesbianism is perfect and needed in the world. In this household, we love and appreciate the diversity of the lesbian experience <3
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saffigon · 4 months
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reminder that mspec lesbians and male lesbians and he/him lesbians and trans(masc/neu/fem) lesbians have existed for decades and are fucking amazing lesbians that deserve space in the lesbian community
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gloaming-sometimes · 5 months
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dear lesboy (and tbh any other nuanced identity) exclusionists who think your vein of thought is the majority in queer spaces id like to inform you that today at lunch with my (entirely queer) friend group the topic drifted to me being a butch lesbian and one friend goes "wait i thought you were a guy?" and i said "i am" and another friend interjected "dudes can be lesbians too" and that was that. no further probing about my identity, nohing about how im "invalidating transmen and lesbians", or whatever. everyone just accepted that thats how i identify and i dont owe an explanation for it and moved on. i promise u its not that deep 👍
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everyponie · 5 months
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to be queer is to be free
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oc uses he/it pronouns
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lesbianpolls · 6 days
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happy lesbian visibility week to all lesbians!! all lesbians are important and valued members of the lesbian community!! this includes trans lesbians, intersex lesbians, he/him lesbians, nonbinary lesbians, lesboys and male lesbians, transmasc lesbians, multigender lesbians, butch and femme lesbians, aspec lesbians, polyamorous lesbians, mspec/bi/pan/omni/abro/etc lesbians, gaybians and straightbians, any and all good faith lesbians!! you belong in the lesbian community!! fuck the exclusionists!!
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flutterrloves · 7 days
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Happy lesbian visibility week to-
ftm lesbians, transmasc lesbians, mtf lesbians, transfem lesbians, genderfluid lesbians, nonbinary lesbians, multigender lesbians, 2spirit lesbians, gaybians, mspec lesbians, abro lesbians, asexual lesbians, aromantic lesbians, acearo lesbians, lesbians of color, butch lesbians, femme lesbians, futch lesbians, studs, ALL LESBIANS!
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sub-butch-blues · 1 month
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violottie · 30 days
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since my old blog got nuked, i gotta make this post again because yall refuse to be anything but ignorant
lesbian sexuality ≠ heterosexual men's sexuality
lesbian attraction to women ≠ men's attraction to women
trans men cannot be lesbians, because they are men. if you think so, youre a transphobe as well as a lesbophobe.
lesbian attraction is not perverse, predatory, dehumanising to or sexualising of women's bodies
men have never and will never be included in lesbian sexuality and attraction under any circumstance
(and if your mind immediately goes to trans women and transfems when reading the above, congrats, youre a transphobe)
butch, femme, stud and stone are lesbian only identities
similarly, dyke is a slur that literally means lesbian. if youre not a lesbian, you're not a, nor can you 'reclaim', dyke.
butches and studs ≠ men or man-lite
butch ≠ masculine
femme ≠ feminine
transmasc ≠ trans man, therefore transmasc lesbians are a thing and trans men cannot ever be lesbians
trans women and transfems have been & will always be included in lesbian attraction, sexuality and community
trans lesbians & transfems can be butch
he/him lesbians ≠ (trans)masc, butch, stud lesbians
black lesbians ≠ automatically masc, butch, stud or tops
"bi lesbians" or "mspec lesbians" do not exist.
the split attraction model is for aromanticism and asexuality only. if you identify as such, youre just a bisexual who doesnt wanna unpack your internalised biphobia so resort to lesbophobia to cope with your self loathing caused by harmful stereotypes about your sexuality, which is bisexual. if you claim they do exist, you're both lesbophobic and biphobic
thank you for coming to my TedTalk. im sure you didnt listen to a word i said.
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poisonbutch · 2 years
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the eternal struggle of being butch but being afraid to interact with other butches and butch spaces or even femmes just because im not a lesbian and i dont even remotely identify as a/with woman/womanhood
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genderqueerdykes · 3 months
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man hating lesbians are out, man loving dykes are in
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elysianmadness · 8 months
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"Lesbian means exclusive attraction to women!"
"No, it means non-men exclusively attracted to non-men!"
"It actually means queer attraction to women!"
"Lesbian means women and nonbinary people being exclusively attracted to other women and nonbinary people!"
Lesbian is a multifaceted label that can describe many different experiences. There is no one perfect definition of lesbian that will encompass the entire diverse experiences that lesbians can have.
I'm personally a genderqueer woman who's exclusively attracted to other women, but the lesbian next to me might be a transmasc lesbian who loves all genders except for men. And the lesbian next to them might be a bigender lesbian who's both a girl and a boy, who's exclusively attracted to women. Our experiences can all be described by the term lesbian if that's how we wish to describe it, but we might define it differently based on our own experiences. And guess what?
None of our definitions are wrong, but none of our definitions will encompass every other lesbian's experiences. A word can have multiple definitions without any of the definitions being wrong. And those definitions can be very vague or very specific. Labels are made to fit us- we aren't made to fit labels.
People who may have a different experience with the lesbian label are not your enemies. People in lesbian spaces who aren't exactly like you are not your enemies. The problem comes when you try to force one singular definition on every single lesbian. THAT is harmful. Sending death threats to other lesbians because they don't have the same experience as you is harmful. Not another lesbian having a different experience from you.
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