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Entries Tagged as 'Butch/Femme'

Butch/Femme relationships versus lesbian relationships

August 24th, 2008 7 Comments

Now before you go and bite my head off yelling at me that butch/femme relationships are lesbian relationships let me tell you that I am well aware of that fact.
Having been involved in a butch/femme dynamic I am still wheeling from the stark differences between what it’s like to date a butch and what it’s [...]

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High femme vs Stone Femme: one interpretation

June 23rd, 2008 6 Comments

There are countless ways to define the femme identity/gender and as many ways for each woman to express it in her own way. But for the purpose of this single blog I will define these two versions as such:
High Femme: a femme lesbian who is ultra feminine in her appearance and behavior. May chose to [...]

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a femme in the streets but a butch in the sheets

May 29th, 2008 4 Comments

I would say that I am a femme/top. Whoa. What? Is that possible? Hell yea it’s possible. Normally this is not a problem, especially when two femmes are dating. I mean, someone’s got to bring the strap-on! Or even sans strap-on, someone’s got to be the aggressor. That person is usually me. Or at [...]

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Hard Femmes

May 8th, 2008 6 Comments

Since butch women are my current obsession, so to speak I’ve been thinking about the differences between butch and femme. What those labels imply, what it means to be either or both or neither in many cases. I’ve heard from a lot of women on both sides of the table and I have to tell [...]

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Femme vs. Butch …. shouldn’t it be Butch + Femme?

May 8th, 2008 10 Comments

What I’ve noticed when I talk to most lesbians is that they have a strong opinion on butch women. Maybe it’s just because we’re in LA, where the cultural idea of femininity is not only abundant, it’s extreme. If you doubt what I’m saying just look around at all the silicone walking around on two [...]

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Do you choose the femme identity or does it choose you?

May 3rd, 2008 6 Comments

I was looking on Amazon for a book about the butch/femme dynamic and I saw a book called “Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity” and I was struck by something a reviewer wrote. What she said that caught my attention was:
“My femme friends who are also in their 30’s and I have discussed whether or not [...]

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