Calling yourself butch is so euphoric because, for a lot of us, you spend your entire formative years being treated as the bottom rung of attractiveness. A waste of womanhood. Maybe even easy to abuse. You learn to be quiet, but at least reliable. You overcompensate. You are the butt of the joke, and you have accepted that.
Then you enter a lesbian space, and for the first time, you are desired. Celebrated. Hell, people even find you sexy. It's such an initial shock but it makes sense of why people feel so attached to being butch.
The label acts as a badge of honor for making it out of the woods











