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Source: On Our Backs Guide To Lesbian Sex, edited by Diana Cage
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androgynealienfemme · 10 months
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"We go from store to store, trying to things on and inspecting them. I give my opinions on dresses and shoes, blouses and lipstick colors. Sometimes I say things that make the other women look at me, agape, as though my mouth has been possessed by that flighty queen from Queer Eye even while the rest of my body still looks like any other big dumb boy's. I say that I like a skirt but I wish it were bias-cut instead of A-line, or that I am not fond of the fashion for surplice tops, or that the post-WWII idiom in shoes this season is amusing but rarely looks good on actual feet, or that I like the look of a bolero jacket. I know the names of colors, heliotrope and coral and Nile blue, and I can say without hesitation whether a lipstick might look better matte with a bit of powder.
These other women look at me with wonder, their boyfriends and husbands having made a fetish out of refusing to learn such words under any circumstances, as though merely pronouncing the word "periwinkle" or "princess seam" could easily turn a strong man gay as a box of birds. They say to her, "That's your husband?" in voices that loiter between admiring and disgusted, as though they know that there's no force on earth that could make their men or boys take such interest in their clothing and they think they might really prefer that to the spectacle of me, filling an armchair, legs crossed ankle over knee, looking just right until I say "tea length."
The point is that she wants other girls to see what it looks like to have a boy so cracy in love with you, as I am, that he will spend an afternoon talking about capri pants to have a boy so delighted by you that he never calls you by your name, but addresses you always as "beautiful girl," or "my love" or occasionally and with great fondness, "boss." To have a boy who will happily fetch your next-size-down and carry your bags and charm the salesclerks at the register without flirting overmuch and just generally try to make himself as useful as possible, all for the dizzy and undying pleasure of making you happy. And even though I am not a boy, I look like one, and so I can be complicit with her in this kind of wonderful afternoon, part indulgence of her great beauty and style, part guerilla feminist activism.
Later, when we walk through the mall or down the sidewalk, me laden with packages that are clearly hers, I watch the eyes of the people we pass: the women who look at me with a certain longing, wishing they had their own boys to carry the bags. The men who look at her with an unmistakable hunger, wishing that they had the honor of schlepping for a girl like her, and then look at me with a certain edge of disbelief, not quite clear about why I get to squire this marvelous example of femininity around when they are clearly wealthier, more handsome, better hung. I have learned to meet all of these gazes with a calm kind of sweetness. There's no point in defensiveness or sheepishness or challenge. I'm the one holding her bags."
"Being a Shopping Switch” Butch is a Noun essays by S. Bear Bergman (2006)
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cobwebgf · 6 months
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Femmes who dress up for their partner!! Makes my heart burst. When y’all wear a perfume that you know will make us feral. When you wear our favorite color. When you wear cute underwear and matching sets. You guys have my heart.
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butchinblue · 6 months
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anyone like hairy dykes?
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seyelence · 9 months
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girl bossing
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Source: On Our Backs Guide To Lesbian Sex, edited by Diana Cage
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saminha · 22 days
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my butch asked me to tell them about my experience as a femme 🥺💞
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cobwebgf · 6 months
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Oh my god you don’t understand. I’m so desperate to just bend a pretty femme wearing a cute skirt over and rip her underwear off. To spread her pussy lips and tease her holes with the tip of my strap.
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Things that I hate about being butch/masc-
1- The loneliness. Every time my friends start talking about makeup i go silent because I don’t understand or care about makeup.
2- The assumptions. When I say I’m masc and don’t wear makeup and wear men’s clothing people automatically assume I’m a pick me. When you say your butch people treat you like you’ll be violent to them when butchness is about being masc in a non violent way
3- The way men treat you. Butch women seem to give straight men an ego boost because they think we’re trying to be them
4- The weird looks in public especially around them women’s bathroom or women only spaces
5- How toxic femmes can be. The amount of femmes who bully the shit out of masc women because they think we’re “not real women” or “heteronormative” saddens me, especially as a butch 4 femme lesbian.
6- The doubt. I hate girly things and it always makes me feel I might be a trans man but I’m not.
7- the tokenisation from my fem friends.
8- The constant expectation to treat femmes as if they’re literal gods and us lowly mascs are unworthy of you because you dress for the male gaze! (Only my crush or gf gets that treatment, sorry!)
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muppetcube · 1 year
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Sometimes you see a butch that's so hot that you just tear up it happens
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martyr0l0gy · 1 month
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seyelence · 8 months
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listening to high vis and yearning over long haired girls
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