I’m Not Usually One To Rant, But…..
I’m reading a current book from one of my favorite authors, and she described one of the characters as …. “overly butch.”
This is not a Sapphire author, and she’s very successful and well known, but how can someone be “overly butch?”
Why is being very butch, or very femme, somehow a negative?
I love butch-identified women. They are just plain hot, and they’ve melted me since I bought my first pair of Docs. But even if I didn’t, it’s none of my business what they feel comfortable wearing, or how they choose to present themselves to the world, and it’s inappropriate to comment negatively about it.
What I do know is it’s a LOT harder to move through this world as a masculine woman, and butches will always have my respect and support for the rampant ignorance they put up with, sometimes on a daily basis.
No one is “overly butch.” Brave, hot, admirable and strong as fuck, but never too butch.
Just sayin’.
2 Replies to “I’m Not Usually One To Rant, But…..”
I agree 💯%! I love butch women also and no I don’t think there’s any such thing as too butch! We get enough bashing from the straight world. We shouldn’t be bashing other lesbian women! We should be supporting each other!
Absolutely! I love butch women and always try to support them in my writing, as we should be doing every day in the lesbian community. I’m a tomboy, but I look very femme, and I’m very aware of the lack of judgment directed towards me that butch women have to deal with every damn day.
I’ll always be a butch fan and hope to change a little bit of that judgment through my writing if I’m lucky.
Thanks for the comment RN!