hot take: there need to be more butch women in media that are explicitly both butch and attracted to men.Ā
not at the expense of writing butch lesbian characters, it shouldnāt be one or the other. (hell, itād be interesting to have both a butch lesbian and a butch straight woman in the same cast.) but i keep seeing people sayĀ āmake this butch character a lesbian! if you make her straight thatās boring and cowardly!ā
andā¦ i donāt know what fucking planet those people are living on where media is full of butch women, like actually butch women, not just Furiosa and Gwendolyn Christieās oeuvre. I donāt know on what fucking planet media regularly has women who donāt perform femininity shown in loving relationships with men, and their lack of femininity isnāt A Thing.Ā
Ā how many girls are growing up and seeing that if they want to be A Woman who Loves Men they have to be femme? seeing that the only people who are dressing and acting and existing the way they want to are lesbians and trans men? whileā¦ you know, not being lesbian or transmasc, or not knowing that theyāre lesbian or transmasc.Ā
like most people are still straight???Ā
Please log off of tumblr and learn what words mean. No straight is or will ever be butch. You can uplift masculine straight women without stealing words from lesbian culture.
