i just genuinely don’t understand how you can call yourself a femme and not love butches. there is no femme if there is no butch !!
Some people here really treat butchfemme dynamics... weirdly. Especially the butch label.
Butch is queer. Butch is not inherently a "daddy" a "boy", a he/him. Butch is not predatory, always dominant, buff, tough, scary.
It's cool if you identify with any of it, but it seems that many people just take it all as face value. They lack historical knowledge.
Being butch or femme is not inherently sexual or indicative of what your position in bed is/should be. That is a heteronormative idea and if you think so, you really should reevaluate it.
Butches in leather jackets, butches in sweaters, butches in tshirts, butches in trans tape, butches in button downs, no matter what a butch is wearing, they always radiate safety. Protection and community and support. And that is why I love them
Lastly, as a reminder, we gotta rise above "see there's a Black character!" as a judgment of a piece of media's inclusiveness. Okay, but did they play a role that had interiority or did they just serve as a device for the nonblack main characters and their stories?
I don't believe in giving credit for the bare minimum of "being present" anymore lol. It's okay to have standards, it's okay that everything you like won't reach them, but you don't have to lower your standards for good Black characters to "just having them"!
Just wanted y'all to have that last paragraph from my review as its own post 👍🏾
Art about transformation I think
🤡: her father is literally dying stop drooling.
me: Okayyyy?? she’s still fucking gorjus? Let me lust over this woman for five minutes without your bitch ass yapping.
this is SICKENING
So a white woman was recently caught on camera calling a 5 year old the n-word multiple times at a playground, and then used it a few more times when confronted by an adult. She also said if the 5 YEAR OLD CHILD didn't want to be called the n-word "he should not have been acting like one"
Now she's set up a gofundme FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS to "protect her family" which has been picked up by the right-wing podcast circuit and has attracted the exact kind people you think. Donating amounts like $1488 and calling bipoc "savages" and "animals", straight up reciting the 14 words, and quoting MLK Jr as a backhanded justification.
Remember a time when saying a racial slur even in the past was ground for at the very least social scorn? Now people like this feel emboldened. I feel like it's only going to get worse.
This was on the same day that the Trump administration ended school desegregation in Louisiana
Saying
"trans men do not hold the same power as cis men in society and will still always be seen as trans men in many ways, therefore trans men absolutely can and do experience misogyny throughout their lives"
Does not equal
"trans men are more oppressed than any other trans identity"
Oppression isn't a competition, stop trying to erase the fact transandrophobia exists when you don't even know what it is
No one's saying trans women are less oppressed
This isn't the Olympics
seeing femmes who hate butches is so hilarious to me because you cannot call yourself a femme if you do not like butches. that’s not how it works. you can absolutely be femme4femme or not want to date butches but i’m talking about femmes who just don’t like butches AT ALL. in ANY way. one of the points of being a femme is protecting all other lesbians, ESPECIALLY butches!! and vice versa for butches protecting femmes!! we rely on each other and always have!! historically!! and more importantly–how can anyone hate butches???? truly baffling.