#my whole gender is butch

[comradekatara]

ohmygod not to KEEP harping on this zukka/klancr thing but YES you’re right the gender thing. exploring queerness in characters who have already expressed onscreen a complicated relationship with gender can be such a great thing, and like you pointed out both of them share similar “nerdy” interests like poetry, theatre, etc that don’t quite fit their gendered expectations for themselves. sokka canonically likes shopping and matching accessories. and yet for some FUCKING reason the tags insist on having sokka be hypermasculine and zuko be hyperfeminine, for reasons i can only hypothesise are racist to both zuko and sokka (feminisation of the east asian man and the masculinisation of the brown skinned indigenous one, to begin with). it’s so incredibly irritating when both of them have interesting and canon relationships with gender and gender roles/presentations. anyway. will leave your inbox alone now. thank you for your time!!

yeah like i think saying that sokka is “masc” is ridiculous but then ppl will try to compensate for that by claiming that actually ZUKO is masc which is really funny also. they both struggle to conform to this standard of masculinity that has been imposed on them. like obviously sokka embodies some “traditionally masculine” traits (his general aptitude for warfare and all that it entails, his ability to kill both animals and humans, his role as provider/protector) but largely those traits have been honed through years of being forced through circumstance to live up to that standard. just as zuko’s musculature or aggression or anger is his way of embodying a standard he has always felt pressure to live up to. but zuko’s like a wells for boys faggot and sokka’s if a teenage boy was a dyke was an old curmudgeon who yells at the miscreant youths to get off his lawn. neither of them are “masculine” but it’s less about them embracing femininity and more about them realizing that these patriarchal standards are constructed and arbitrary and actively harmful (to them and to the world). which isn’t to say that embracing one’s masculinity is necessarily a bad thing, because i do believe that toph would butch it up more as she gets older and comes to terms with her own masculine presentation. but when people say shit like “sokka goes from performing manhood to learning how to be a real man” i just pause bc like. if anything sokka goes from performing manhood to learning that he doesn’t have to be a man at all (while nonetheless still desperately embodying roles in accord with the patriarchal logic he so deeply internalized that he may never fully extricate, even if he wakes up one day and actually straight up decides he is gonna start identifying as nonbinary or whatever). but like. he’s definitely not buff and stacked and ripped. he gives off sickly orphan vibes well into middle age smh. and also zuko having long hair OBVIOUSLY doesn’t make him fem…. but the blue spirit is basically his drag queen persona and his wrists are so limp it actively inhibits his ability to firebend so make of that what u will.

#unreachedgalaxy #asks #sokka is basically a lesbian and zuko is THEE prototypical faggot #so it’s not that they’re both ‘not masc’ in the same way #like zuko is cis and sokka is. who can say. #but they do both struggle with conforming to masculinity for whatever reason #so it’s disingenuous to position them as masc4fem in either direction #it is simply far more complicated than that #sokka #zuko #toph #butch toph is so important to me…. there’s a whole ask in my inbox about toph’s gender that I still need to get to….

[jopzer]

girljamie to go with girlroy ... i'm of two minds when it comes to s3 girljamie , i am both in favor of big chop AND she leaves it long but lightens it still... idk. bangs be upon her either way ig

(more of richmond's women's team can be found here <3)

#my art #jamie tartt #ted lasso #soccer yuri been on my MIND lately. eating me alive. #NEED ted lasso to come out with a spin off for the women's team already. #need soccer yuri or i'll waste away. #also. for da record. i am of the transgender persuasion. #i have a gender studies degree. #i understand the nuance. #i think its fun to cisswaps AND trans aus. everyone take a breath. #that being said. do want to take a crack at butch!roy/transfem!jamie #also i do believe in season 2 jamie undercut also #which is a point in favor of the big chop so she doesn't have to deal with growing it out #but ALSO. i love bottle blonde long ass barbie hair jamie #idk. maybe i'll settle on a design sometime #i think dani or sam is next to receive the yurification beam #zava might be good #if the team was full of lesbians and zava was like. ive literally never looked at another woman besides my wife the whole vibe would be dif #soccer yuri

[ileaveclawmarks]

Photography by Lydia Garnett

Models: Silver and Marlo

#leather dyke #ftm t4t #butch dyke #butch lesbian #gender nonconforming #lesbian photography #lesbianism #i dont think ive ever seen 2 sexier people in my whole life LOL

[butchladymaria]

#bloodborne #not exaggerating when i say that even wearing PANTS was seen as an exclusively masc thing btw #there are Multiple cases of women literally PASSING AS DUDES by wearing pants. IN THE ARMY NO LESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #this one lady who wore pants to farm was seen so outlandish it warranted public backlash #women were arrested for wearing pants and button-down shirts as recently as THE SIXTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i could go more into maria's outfit as a whole but the pants ALONE make her canonically masc By Definition in the historical context :) #if ur abt to be fucking stupid on this post im Just going to block u btw #having said that if anyone DOES have normal responses or questions i really love history and i have a lot of resources #comment/reblog/inbox/dm are all fair game <333 #in case anyone was curious what my inbox looked like after making that post #most of these are direct quotes :) its just silly to me #like holy [citation needed] #if u want to know more!!!! #i love her so much and im really tired of (overwhelmingly cis) people literally being so insecure in their own gender #that they just start reinventing gender roles in my inbox!!!!! #and everywhere else they can get their hands on #i think some of yall need to realize that uhhhhhhh #butch lesbians seeing maria as a butch lesbian is not fucking '''''''tokenism'''''''''''' or whatever #that is Literally Not What That Word Means #but it may be worth examining why you are so upset by it? #or barring that........have some genuine curiosity about the history of gender.......because its really cool to research imo

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Need people to consider. Lesbians MingCheng.

#like butch lesbian sect leader nie mingjue. thinking 'jiang cheng is the only other woman Sect leader. and the youngesg here.' #and takes jc under her wing. and jiang cheng is like 'oh thank god a Sect leader who doesn't make me want to rip my hair out.' #and also 'i cannot have a crush on my best friend's older sister for reasons one to infinity' (platonic sangcheng y'all!) #nie huaisang could still be a man in this au i think it adds a little spice to the whole situation. #ANYWAY. consider it lesbians mingcheng #mingcheng #nie mingjue #jiang cheng #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #i'm saying stuff #gender bend

[torahtot]

ok ive had enough of queering judaism. can we start judaizing queerness now. or something

#like. it feels like so much of this queering judaism shtus just layers an american/secular queer identity over judaism #which i guess is fine for certain communities. but it's only going to push you away from orthodoxy #and if as queer jews we already feel like our queerness makes us into secularized outsiders in our own communities #how does this help? is trying to get our communities to embrace an essentially secular american iteration of queer identity supposed to mak #us feel LESS like outsiders? it's not quite doing it for me #we need a queerness that comes from within judaism that is essentially jewish #ive seen a couple of articles recently from ppl talking abt how word/concept of butch doesnt exist in their language & culture #but they use it anyway #& like. i love being butch. it's important to me ill never give it up #& i am american too. but my whole identity as a butch he/him lesbian is exclusively secular american it came from the outsifr #which is definitely due in large part to the fact that my Gender Problems were really tied up w orthodox jewish gender roles #so naturally to get out of that i'd pull on something not jewish. but i wish there was another option? idk if that's possible #or how it would look #maybe that's why im obsessed w the idea of a butch w long curly payos.... 😦 #i forgot where i was going w this but yeah it's frustrating #this is a large part of why im wary of starting a queer Jewish club on campus bc the people who would wanna start it w mr #well no offense but they are insufferable about this #(incidentally they're also insufferable about chanukah. no surprises there) #nachi speaks #jew blogging #others have Actually written abt all this tho

[shapelytimber]

Ok there is no way to present what I did for my final exam in a coherent or sane way.... I drew gender Columbo having a divorce with a typewritter.

For my defence, every text we were given sucked ass so I just twisted one of the less sexist ones beyond recognition. And it involved butch Columbo and a typewritter lady yes (btw Dialtown is a fun game you should check it out and yes this design is very inspired by this game). I will not post everything I did, only the best parts :)

And the final comic I did in record Time lggkgkkvglkjji

Pardon my french, but I'm not rewriting all this by hand so here is the traduction : [Title : literally "beautiful talker" it means a charming liar, someone who talks a lot of shit with a lot of charisma] "Tell me the truth." "Pierre." "Answer me" "Answer me" (repeating a lot)

I just want to note that not a single positive emotion was involved in the creative process. We had to work on this for 9 hour a day without break, without being able to leave the room, in shrimp mode because the stools were too high for the tables. We had two days (16 fucking hours) of this torture and never in my life am I doing this again (at least not on these fucking stools). My back hurt, my ass hurt, my knees hurt, my fingies hurt.

So considering all this shit, this turned out not so bad

#Going from an annoying cis man to a bastard butch is my genius decision that helped me get motivated to do something I would like a bit #I now have feelings for gender Columbo #thanks Dialtown for giving me the inspiration for this unhinged charadesign #This whole thing felt like a stress induced fever dream #I always make wild and erratic choices when stressed #art #my art #digital art #illustration #art school #charadesign #web comic #original character #oc #comics #original comic #original art #lesbian #queer

[girlboyburger]

Its-using animals club!

Alas i feel your pain, especially when someone's go-to response is "isn't using it/its dehumanizing?"

right. like. it doesn't matter if you think it's dehumanizing. it's what i want to be called, and like my name, you'll call me by it / its or we will not be having further conversation.

to me, personally, that's like. kind of a huge part of the appeal? full respect to those living in the "it can be a moment, it can be the mountains or the sunset" because, me too! but also a massive appeal to it / its is i can easily sum my gender up as some kinda boygirlthing. it/its he/she. like an animal you don't know the gender of.

#i know i already rambled about it in the tags of the of post so i wont ramble too much more but #my realtionship with my gender is funky and has been a very very very VERY long road #but at the end of that road ive realized that. labels (for me) are overrated. theyve always kinda mean what they mean to the person using #them. and give a vauge understanding of what they mean to the person hearing those labels #like. i don't consider myself nonbinary. i *AM* binary to some degree #i also wouldnt consider myself trans fem or trans masc. i'm trans. i'm pretty often seen as both or either. so ah. if the shoe fits. #i'm wearing them with ripped shorts and a collar #not to mention leaning fem or masc or neutral for me is tied heavily to my relationship with others. #if i'm with a girl i fancy myself more of a butch and if i'm with a guy i fancy myself more of a bear (✨) #<- (that's a special lil fem twist. imagine i flipped my hair or smthn) #but. that's a whole other can of worms and i've already lied and started rambling in the tags #i love you queer. if no label got my back i know queer got my back. #ask #cryptidchiroptera

[chaos-in-one]

The way people will treat extremely new definitions for labels as the Only Acceptable Definition sometimes is fucking WILD

Anyways I'm a proud butch panagender (mix between pangender and agender) & genderfluid lesbian and ily all other lesbians who get shit for not fitting the newest box for what people expect lesbians to be <3

#'lesbian means non men loving non men only!!!' that definition has been in high use for like 3 years calm down #and my butch lesbian multigender ass is not giving up my label based on a brand new ass definition #some people aren't going to fit your idea of what a specific lgbtq label looks like and thats okay #and honestly some of you really need to get the fuck over it #putting so much damn energy into policing others identities based on the most popular definition SCREAMS privilege #I promise you some trans person online IDing as a lesbian while having a gender that is partially a man is not #going to be what makes the whole damn community collapse. or the cause for prejudice towards lgbtq people at all #anti lgbtq people actively discriminating against us is what is causing that not us #rant #mini rant #lgbtq #lesbian #multigender lesbian #genderfluid lesbian #genderqueer lesbian #butch lesbian #discourse #not putting this in all the discourse tags because certain discoursers I dont want to deal with keep finding it when I do that

[biracy]

Ultimately we're at a very weird point in posting where people seem to believe that there is any sort of meaningful distinction between "transgender" and "transsexual" in the eyes of cis people, but ALSO that every cis person on the planet is completely incapable of distinguishing between like a crossdressing cis Twitch streamer and a trans person. Neither of these are true but it's weird to see them coexist at once

#open mick night #lgbt #gender #can u tell i'm getting burnt out on the whole 'transsexual' thing. like glad u guys are having fun but i'm sick of how u all talk abt it #put 'burnt out on the whole 'transsexual' thing' and 'disillusioned to the whole butch and femme thing' on my callout doc btw. keep up

[grubloved]

degendering stuff esp tasks seems like a logical thing to do but i only recently discovered i could intentionally RE-gender stuff i do to make it more fun. so that is my breakthrough lately

#like i think despite my best efforts i couldnt shake the idea that i am somehow living the life i was expected to - housewifery #because of disability the majority of the helpful things i CAN do for my family are house tasks and i think the fact id been drilled to #consider those tasks my Feminine Destiny my whole life was making those tasks a lot more miserable than they needed to be #but they dont need to be either feminine or Null....they can be butch stuff i do butchly if i want :) #reframing the stuff i can do as useful solid dependable -> butchness has been good for my psyche in ways i was Not Expecting #turns out gender IS real its just mine wasnt initially on the menu #birdenest #scraps book #queer

[vamptastic]

I need to come out to my synagogue soon because my voice has dropped a noticeable amount and it's getting to the point where not saying anything raises more questions than not. The congregation is very progressive, albeit in a way that is sometimes too enthusiastic, and I need to find a way to let everybody know that both isn't a big attention-grabbing statement and lets enough people understand my deal that I don't have to field a million individual conversations

#I mean there's going to be questions and conversations obviously. I just want the least amount possible #Dgmr I'm reform Jewish in the Florida version of a blue haven (which is more uhhh purple). They'll be fine. #We have a booth at pride every year. Honestly they've all just thought I'm a butch lesbian since we joined when I was like 11. #Probably also think I'm nonbinary or something because I asked for the male traditional gift at my bar mitzvah #And wear kippot and yk. Call it a bar mitzvah #Idk. We had a guest come who was writing an article #And I told her my legal name then froze up when she asked my pronouns and told her to use whatever. Which definitely #Made her think I was nonbinary. Feel bad for leaving a bad impression esp since we discussed gender and Judaism #Like at this point I need to say something before the whole congregation starts they/themming me without asking #*Wrong impression. Whoops