#and thats why acofaf episode 8 rues speech to the chorus was peak political femness for me. Im sorry?? you think im assosciated with your

[cosmik-homo]

I think one of the things, in my, like, reading and thinking about Femme identity and particularly recognizing and empowering streaks of thinking about the Femme identifier outside the context of relationships and attractiveness, I think a main thing that comes down from the very historical roots of butch and femme and really gives meaning to statements like "Intentional gender preformence and reclamation" or ''Emotional care-taking and strength" or whatever is, like, the idea of Femmeness as a kind of Treason, or Rooting For An Enemy. like, the economical basis of 50s butch-femme culture, where openly butch women couldnt integrate in society financially as much, pushed out for their disobedience, and representing the active pushing against it, and part of the complamentary contribution was of femmes using this mobility of feminine camoflage, seemingly fitting in, gave em to procure resources and bring them bck to their butches and back to their queer communities, and by saying femme femininity is still to me kind of this Camouflage, i don't mean that it isn't genuine, cuz like. ideology settles on top of personality. first u like glitter than you do Femme. but it signifies, in my opinion, what 'preformence' and 'visibility' and stuff are really about: a femme is in on the joke theyre playing on society by using femininity for the benfit of queerness- ones own queerness, or partnership, or friends and community, or queering systems and politics, its all about a kind of, campy trickery- stealing a certain placement and gear and using it- sometimes publicly and campily, sometimes just inside ones own brain- for your own agenda and prosperity.

the "can you give me femininity?" "for gender role?" "...yes (actually having queer fun and destroying your values and bloodlines like a boss)" of identitities.