i keep thinking about that ovarit post of terfs/gender crits talking about Butch lesbians who are too masculine or too sexual, not because it's particularly galling but because this is just what they do. they've been saying this since the 70s.
nothing in that post is new. reactionaries often create an idealized version of the past as a method of justifying their view of the present as well as their political actions. "Butch lesbians used to be so normal and good, until [things that have always occurred within the Butch community]."
they do this for a lot of reasons, partly so that they can discard the voices of cis Butch lesbians like myself who disagree with them. if they can position us as degenerates and predators who are trying so desperately to be men, they don't need to listen to us. we are tainted by the queer agenda. we have fallen from the grace of our true divine feminine nature.
they're also just reactionaries working to protect the cisheteropatriarchy and policing gender expression.
you cannot say that you are pro-gender non-conformity in women and then act like masculine women are trying to be men. it's inherently contradictory. sorry not sorry. my masculinity has nothing to do with men, this is who i am. you can't tell transmasc people "why can't you just be a masculine woman?" and then say i am trying to be a man because i am a masculine woman.
when i fuck a woman with a strapon, men have nothing to do with it. you can't recoil from completely common expressions of lesbian sexuality and say you're supporting us, and you had better not pretend you're standing up for our sexual independence. it's fucking disgusting. it's perfectly okay to not like strap-on sex for yourself, but it is not okay to build your politics around your disgust regarding how some lesbians fuck and pretend that isn't lesbophobia.
you think you're doing something new by framing us as predators? you think you're doing something new by saying we're trying to be like men? you think you're doing something new by wrinkling your nose in disgust at my sexuality?
i've known people like you my whole life, and yet here i am, utterly defiant of your expectations. don't pretend you're doing something to protect me when you're literally the source of my problems.
