#the second i meet them whereas if im on some girls acc n shes got 'femme4femme' in her bio 9/10 times i scroll down her blog n its very tha
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I was wondering if you could elaborate on what you mean by you don’t think femme4femme is a thing? Like do you not agree with it or not think people have that experience, or is a historical or terminological disagreement?
no like theres plenty of feminine women who want to fuck other feminine women it just doesnt really have much to do with the butch/femme subculture and like most people who are going out of their way to announce that they're femme4femme are just doing it in a defensive like uhmm i only like pretty cute soft pink uwu girlsss 🥺 way thats just terminally irritating 😭 ur the default majority already so it like comes hand in hand with this idea that butch4femme couples are like somehow privileged and proximal to heterosexuality or something ... and to me in that context femme is just meaning like that ur a feminine woman in purely aesthetic terms so like idrc if ur using that word to describe who u wanna bang in the appropriate context, but i dont think it constitutes a femme identity in the butchfemme way which literally only exists in the first place out of courting rituals between butch and femme women. so yeah its historical/terminological for sure, hopefully what i said makes sense<3
i do think its worth considering like how internalised lesbophobia and the stigmatisation of gnc women etc might be affecting this and like i say, a lot of the like aggressively femme4femme ppl are young gays w a lot of internalised lesbophobia who need to make it clear that theyre like an acceptable pretty soft whatever lesbian not like those dykes, but thats not me saying that ur problematic for not fancying butches or something - like were the roles reversed id be the exact same bc feminine women just arent what's attractive to me n thats fine. but the reason a lot of our hackles go up at that term is because through experience we've come to associate it with dehumanisation of our partners and dismissal of our desire, etc. a lot of ppl have some kind of variation and maybe like really androgynous girls or all sorts of girls who are both feminine and masculine or whatever whereas i feel like if ur out the gate dismissive of anyone whos not hyperfeminine that is just to me more likely a sign that uve got some stuff to deal with. but thats for u & like ill never dismiss someone purely based on who theyre attracted to thats crazy but if ur framing it in a way thats clearly defensive against proximity to the gnc women in ur community or something then yeah i dont think you have any right to the subculture which they built and defended as a safe space from people exactly like u!! i hope that makes sense and any follow up qs are totally welcome if i said anything that confused u or u dont agree, i hope i dont come off hostile or anything 🥺 also i just realised i have a really bad habit of oscillating between second and third person when i start talking about an abstract group so jic im not referring to YOU, anon but to like a vague ye <3
#ask#anon#butchfemme#feminine lesbians who like other feminine women can still be gnc and have complicated gender bla bla etc etc etc#i just mean this one specific history and subculture it doesnt make any sense for u to claim if u have no interest in butches#and like im alwayssss saying terms just exist to describe experiences so im not like gatekeeping ur experience or whatever#im just saying the term femme in that sense has no meaning to me outside of the experience of like relating to butches in a certain way#so idrc if ur like#saying that on ur dating profile to communicate who ur interested in w/e#its just the girls who come on here and are all omggg can we stop erasing femme4femme femmes!!!! or whatever#please turn on any lesbian tv show ever and tell me where this erasure is queen#i feel like im struggling to explain the type of person bc its like ...iykyk#but usually if i meet someone who just happens to like fem girls theyre not going to be all OMG I ONLY LIKE PRETTY PURE SOFT DELICATE GIRLS#EYELINER HIGH HEELS MINI SKIRTS CHRISSY CHALALAPECKA<333#the second i meet them whereas if im on some girls acc n shes got 'femme4femme' in her bio 9/10 times i scroll down her blog n its very tha#and ik these girls would define me . a stone femme . as like butchy femme or soft butch or w/e#because the fact that im obviously the 'girl one' when i stand next to a masc one is how im conceiving of myself#rather than like what would a str8 guy think if he saw me walking down the street#sorry this is sooo long i just feel like its such a Thing and like all of us know without saying exactly why i dont like it but i do wanna#explain what that is so it doesnt look like im just being a hater to girls who like that pic of the girl putting makeup on the other girl#or w/e#im an ally to ur culture just wish it was more mutual <//3
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