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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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Passive Butch vs. Aggressive Femme

June 9th, 2008 5 Comments

I thought that when I started dating butch women that things would be easier, clearer in some ways. That perhaps some semblance of psuedo-gender roles might be in place, making it easier to navigate through the single scene if I knew who did what when.
But no such luck. Not only does it not clarify my [...]

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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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