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ordereduniverse · 11 months

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“For all our boyish clothes and mannerisms... we women did not pass as men or boys... our point was not to be men; our point was to be butch and get away with it... A dyke learns much of her social function from other dykes... Whether she ever has the chance to enter a Gay bar or not, she imitates dykes, not men. She may identify with traditionally dyke figures: Diana the Huntress, Beebo Brinker, Gertrude Stein, Bessie Smith, Natalie Barney, Queen Christina, Joan of Arc, Amy Lowell, Oya, St Barbara, modern athletes, and other leaders... the social message she bears and is delivering is not ‘I am a man’ but rather ‘Here is another way to be a woman.’”

-- Judy Grahn

#compulsory femininity #female masculinity #gender non conformity #gnc #lesbian culture #lesbian womanhood #many ways to be a woman #judy grahn #butch

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honeyglot · 2 years

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get it here

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scramratz · 12 days

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Wait till these radfems find out I still identify as a lesbian

#poking the wasp nest at this point #transmasc nonbinary #i dont usually correct people when they call me a trans man #i mean im hitting all the checks for being a trans man except the identifying as a man part #that might change in the future idk i have literally no connection to womanhood except through my lesbianism #just call me a dyke

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butch-with-a-deep-voice · 2 months

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Something about my femme having gone back home has made me realize something so important about butch/femme love I didn't really register at first.

How much my gender as a butch was affirmed by my femme. She sees me for who I am in a light I'm not sure literally any queer peer I've had prior has. My two-spirit womanhood, my butchness, just felt... natural around her. The masculinity, the "silly" chivalrous tendencies, the way I naturally wanted to dress. It was all affirmed just by being in relation to my femme. I had literally zero gender dysphoria for basically the entire week. It was glorious.

I actually had one of the worst dysphoria days in months yesterday afterwards, almost like a whiplash effect. But, this also helps serve as a reminder of just how right butch is for me. How happy I feel specifically as a two-spirit butch, in relation to my femme.

Once again butch/femme has proven itself holy.

#there were so many tiny and big things that affirmed by butch womanhood this last week #it was honestly lifechanging #oh vampling... 💕#bite me #butch #lesbian #trans butch #butch/femme #butch lesbian #stone butch #butch/femme culture #butch/femme things #two spirit

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lesbiciousbeginnings · 3 months

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Blurry af but these are kinda hot

#me #lesbian #butch #dyke #re: that last reblog. gnc womanhood is dope.

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the-sappho-of-lesbos · 10 days

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If you are into feminine men that doesn’t mean you are a lesbian that means you like feminine men

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

#come on now #not only are you implying womanhood equals femininity you are implying lesbians are attracted to femininity only #wild card to play

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genderqueerdykes · 1 year

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it really is okay to be a girl and to want to be a girl. society likes to tell us that being a woman is undesirable. that women can't be funny, smart, nuanced, or have a personality. that women can't have interests. women can't be this and women can't be that- none of that's true in the slightest- talk to any number of women and you'll see that's just not the case. women are as varied and nuanced as people can get.

it's okay to want to do the "shallow" things that people hate women for. it's also it's okay to want to be a woman who doesn't shave or care about their appearance. it's okay to be a butch woman. it's also okay to want to be hyper feminine and wear very well crafted makeup and well planned out outfits. it's okay to be a smart woman, it's okay to be a funny girl. it's okay to be the weird girl. it's okay to WANT to be a woman and ENJOY womanhood, no matter how you express it, no matter what body you're in or how your womanhood presents itself.

trans women, genderqueer women, intersex women, butch women, gnc women, cis women- it's okay to enjoy being a woman. it's okay to find joy in womanhood. it's okay to be a woman in your own way, too, stereotype or not- even if other people say you don't act like a woman or aren't one- it's okay to love being a woman. it's okay to love womanhood.

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queerism1969 · 10 months

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#misandry #violence against women #sex based oppression #womens rights #feminism #gay girls #nonbinary lesbian #sapphic #lesbian #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #womanhood #intersectional feminism #feminist #radical feminism #radblr #radical feminst

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marzipanandminutiae · 8 days

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what are your thoughts on the lesbian master doc?

sorry if you’ve already talked about it! <3

The what? Hold for googling.

...upon googling, this seems well-intentioned but needlessly complicated and prescriptive. I get that Words Have Meanings and Lesbian Has A Definition, but the phrasing of "lesbians are allowed" to feel this or "you can be a lesbian if" that just turns me off in a big way.

To me, the term lesbian can apply to you if you:

are somewhere on the vague Woman side of the gender spectrum (not necessarily she/her or calling yourself 100% A WomanTM)

are attracted to people on that same side of the spectrum. the term usually applies an exclusivity of attraction to women/woman-aligned people nowadays, but there's historical precedent for "lesbian" just meaning "woman who likes other women regardless of other attraction," so...that's complicated

the rest of it boils down to "what am I, a cop?" for me

"but this male fictional character-"

"what am I, a cop?"

"but in the past I had boyfriends-"

"what am I, a cop?" [I had boyfriends as a teen actually. for me, that turned out to not be real attraction. for some people, it might have been! not a cop!]

Again, I think whoever wrote it was trying to help questioning or confused people in good faith. But any attempt to make something so complex and personal, simple and universal, is inevitably going to fail

#ask #lesbian master doc #sapphic #wlw #lgbt #the only thing that annoys me is people with NO apparent connection to womanhood using the term for themselves #and even thenI have no interest in saying anything about it #who has the energy

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i-used-to-be-an-anti-feminist · 1 year

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I see so many well intentioned women talking about how modesty is important when it comes to men's objectification of them. Like, they will condemn men's lust, but say, "but we have to do our part too." I just need you guys to understand that there is literally no amount of clothing you can wear to keep men from sexualizing you. It sucks, but it's true.

I dress very modestly by the typical conservative Christian standard... Loose clothing, long dresses/skirts, nothing low cut, etc. Usually the only skin I expose is my forearms, neck, and face... But I am not exempt from being sexualized. I can't tell you how many times I've heard stuff like, "it's so hot when women leave things up to the imagination" and "I love your librarian/teacher vibe, it's so sexy." Men sexualize nuns and muslim women, who are completely covered. No woman is exempt from this.

Why is this important? So you can stop blaming yourself for men treating you like sexual potential instead of a person and hold men accountable for their own willful inability to control themselves.

To the Christian women, you are not responsible for men choosing to lust after you. Lust is a choice. I am same-sex attracted, and when I find myself attracted to a woman, I simply choose not to fantasize and lust after her. Men are capable of the same, they just like to shift blame.

As a Christian, I dress modestly as an act of humility more than anything else, but I know there is nothing I can do to control the sinful actions of men. Please stop blaming yourselves.

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daftpatience · 9 months

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im no good at making memes but here this is a useful image i made for when you see those kinds of posts circulating

#those kinds as in like memes from terfs that vaguely reference womanhood or lesbianism that is soured from the source being a terf #i dont wanna see no red names on my dash cmon guys #everyone thats tagging it sayin ur on mobile. im sorry for ur loss

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carlyraejepsans · 30 days

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Uh, context?

someone said people calling themselves bi lesbians are the reason lesbians get sexually harassed by straight men in bars and it was so painfully cruelly stupid and victim blaming that i saw red. and then i was like you know what fuck y'all, I'm not staying in this tar pit, because twitter had already been making me miserable for a while

can y'all stop showing me people gossiping about me behind my back. it's rude that they're doing it in public, but it's their business what they think of me & I don't want to see that either.

#note also that ''bi lesbian'' is a lable I've so far seen used almost exclusively by trans women and nb transfemmes #to describe their complex relationship between gender and queer womanhood when ''woman'' alone doesn't exactly feel like the right word #and that is very VERY niche. very few people actually use it it's rare you'll meet someone IRL who does.#so the whole internet complex and discourse circus that got built up around it—especially with excuses such as #''it's THIS very tiny minority's fault real (woman) lesbians get assaulted!!!'' was undoubtedly informed by transmisogyny #answered asks

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ot3 · 8 months

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this flavor of trans guy misogyny where they do rhetorical backflips to explain why them not caring about women is good, actually, and since cis men are also misogynists a lot of the time we should all just stop complaining about it.

#'no one bats an eye when-'#actually yes plenty of women but particularly black women and lesbians have a lot to say about the specific brand of misogyny #that you get from cis gay men. only no one listens to women who talk about misogyny. is the thing. s o.#IM LITERALLY NOT EVEN SAYING PEOPLE NEED TO PUT FEMALE CHARACTERS IN SHIT #IM JUST SAYING IF THEYRE GONNA BE THERE IT SUCKS WHEN THEY'RE ONLY THERE TO BE PLOT MOTIVATORS FOR MEN!!!! NO ONE GIVES A SHIT WHAT YOU DO!#like if you're a trans guy and you have a complicated relationship to womanhood and don't want to spend a bunch of time #in the headspace of female characters. i get that. i can understand that. i can sympathize.#but if ur response to seeing someone complain about misogyny is 'why should i have to care about female characters' then ur just an asshole #theres a time and a place to talk about the Unique and Woke Way That You Personally Dislike Women and it's not on my fucking posts!!!!

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butchrat · 2 years

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womanhood and the inherent tragedy of it