Tafari Carswell

Butches reclaim their identity by rejecting the norms placed on womanhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must be soft, fragile, and gentle, butches are hard, strong, and assertive.

Femmes reclaim their identity by SUBVERTING the norms placed on womenhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must dress ‘girly’ and have long flowing hair and wear makeup and heels in order to be attractive to men, femmes say “I’ll be soft and beautiful and feminine, but it’s not for you, it’s for other women.”

That’s why butch and femme are lesbian only identities. Not only did lesbians make them, but they are inherently tied up with rejecting men and decentering men in our lives. They’re identities that both revolve around being women-aligned and only attracted to other women-aligned people at the specific and aggressive exclusion of men.

@str8p you are a man. being trans doesn’t make you less of a man, and if you think it does, you have some internalized transphobia to unlearn. you are not a lesbian. you may have identified as a lesbian in the past, but as you are a MAN WHO IS NOT A LESBIAN, you have no place speaking on these identities. you don’t have any place telling lesbians how to identify when you aren’t fucking one lmao

Butches reclaim their identity by rejecting the norms placed on womanhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must be soft, fragile, and gentle, butches are hard, strong, and assertive.

Femmes reclaim their identity by SUBVERTING the norms placed on womenhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must dress ‘girly’ and have long flowing hair and wear makeup and heels in order to be attractive to men, femmes say “I’ll be soft and beautiful and feminine, but it’s not for you, it’s for other women.”

That’s why butch and femme are lesbian only identities. Not only did lesbians make them, but they are inherently tied up with rejecting men and decentering men in our lives. They’re identities that both revolve around being women-aligned and only attracted to other women-aligned people at the specific and aggressive exclusion of men.

@str8p you are a man. being trans doesn’t make you less of a man, and if you think it does, you have some internalized transphobia to unlearn. you are not a lesbian. you may have identified as a lesbian in the past, but as you are a MAN WHO IS NOT A LESBIAN, you have no place speaking on these identities. you don’t have any place telling lesbians how to identify when you aren’t fucking one lmao

Butches reclaim their identity by rejecting the norms placed on womanhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must be soft, fragile, and gentle, butches are hard, strong, and assertive.

Femmes reclaim their identity by SUBVERTING the norms placed on womenhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must dress ‘girly’ and have long flowing hair and wear makeup and heels in order to be attractive to men, femmes say “I’ll be soft and beautiful and feminine, but it’s not for you, it’s for other women.”

That’s why butch and femme are lesbian only identities. Not only did lesbians make them, but they are inherently tied up with rejecting men and decentering men in our lives. They’re identities that both revolve around being women-aligned and only attracted to other women-aligned people at the specific and aggressive exclusion of men.

@str8p you are a man. being trans doesn’t make you less of a man, and if you think it does, you have some internalized transphobia to unlearn. you are not a lesbian. you may have identified as a lesbian in the past, but as you are a MAN WHO IS NOT A LESBIAN, you have no place speaking on these identities. you don’t have any place telling lesbians how to identify when you aren’t fucking one lmao

Butches reclaim their identity by rejecting the norms placed on womanhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must be soft, fragile, and gentle, butches are hard, strong, and assertive.

Femmes reclaim their identity by SUBVERTING the norms placed on womenhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must dress ‘girly’ and have long flowing hair and wear makeup and heels in order to be attractive to men, femmes say “I’ll be soft and beautiful and feminine, but it’s not for you, it’s for other women.”

That’s why butch and femme are lesbian only identities. Not only did lesbians make them, but they are inherently tied up with rejecting men and decentering men in our lives. They’re identities that both revolve around being women-aligned and only attracted to other women-aligned people at the specific and aggressive exclusion of men.

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