Look, I fundamentally do not care about how exactly butch and femme as labels were used "back in the day" and I fundamentally do not give a fuck whatever the newest prescriptivist take that this fresh hell of a webscape has birthed is
"Has butch been used by men? Are men allowed to use the term "butch"?"
Motherfucker, I don't care. Butch originally just meant "masculine" and was used for straight dudes. Any queer usage by men or people of any other genders came later. I don't really care when exactly it started being used in a queer sense and I don't care where you draw your arbitrary lines in the sand as to who is allowed to be butch.
Prescriptivism is a blight upon this world rivaled only by all the other fucking brainrot that exclusionists and radfems come up with on a daily basis.
Men use "butch" as a label. They identity with it.
Trans men, gay men, queer men, bi men, demi-men, intersex men, nonbinary men.
Women use "butch" as a label. They identify with it.
Trans women, lesbian women, queer women, bi women, demi-women, intersex women, nonbinary women.
Nonbinary people use "butch" as a label. They identify with it.
Butch is a noun. It can be a whole identity, butch is love and butch is life and butch is our community.
And butch is solidarity as well.
Who do you think you are to tell others they are wrong for it?
Some of you will say "be gay do crimes" and then turn around and become the volunteer hall monitor "who gets to use this word, queer police" 🤓🤓🤓 you look like this, you're silly, find something better to do like actually protecting our community from fascist agitators who LOVE the shit you're dedicated to right now cause when it all comes down to it: it is divide and conquer all the same.
