Thursday, October 29, 2009

Femme Desires and a little about Butch Femininity

I received both these comments on one of my youtube vids and figured I'd address them here since the second comment/question gets asked often enough.

First let me say regarding the hating men comment, lesbians in general do not hate men, straight women who have to deal with men in relationships because of their attraction to men generally are the women who hate men.

Now as far as why would a Femme lesbian desire to be with a Butch lesbian and not a man? Because she is gay and is attracted to women. Butch women, are women. None "look" or "act" like men. They look and act like Butch women period! Femmes are physically and emotionally attracted to Butch femininity. Butch femininity is the femininity that dare not be discussed, ANYWHERE! The femininity that under the standardized patriarchally restrained and ONLY visible femininity, isn't even recognizable as a brand of the feminine!!!!!!

This is why again and again and fucking again Femmes are asked the ignorant question of "why not date a REAL man" when they date Butch women. Because the femininity they seek, desire, want, need in their partner is a femininity that like the women who own it (Butch women) does not exist outside Femme/Butch circles! And sadly due to the male-centrism that has invaded Femme/Butch spaces in the drugged and mutilated form of ftM women (women who pathologically HATE women/womens bodies), Butch femininity is being eroded and destroyed and turned into/perceived as the "masculine"!!!

Butch femininity is softness; tenderness, loving, maternal, strong, comforting, tough, brazen and insolent. Butch bodies are women's bodies, sometimes with muscles and broad shoulders and sometimes not. Just because Butch femininity occupies the world in occasional ways as some men may, does not and cannot default Butch to masculine. Butch women are NOT men! Butch femininity is in a Butch's warm tender touch, the way she pampers her Femme partner without reducing her Femme to a thing with less power and less value. Butch femininity may differ in part from Femme femininity but it does not change the fact that the Butch is just as much a woman as is the Femme. A woman with soft skin, soft feelings, soft breast and a soft pussy, all things a Femme desires, only she desires those things wrapped up in a nice Butch shell. Given that, why would any person think a Femme lesbian would be just as at home in dating a man as dating a Butch woman?

Somewhere between Butch tenderness and toughness is where a Femme lays her hand, her head and finds a home.

dirt


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5 comments:

Jewels said...

Good post, Dirt!

undercoverpunk said...

you know what I like to say? well, I'll tell you.

BUTCH is HOT!
Man is not.

The distinction is crucial. And it makes ALL the difference in the WORLD.

Indeed, another FABULOUS post!!

shesadandy said...

I agree.

Don't forget though that men think Lesbians (butch or femme) are like they are. They think we're sex crazed perverts who want to steal control of women from them so we can control women ourselves.

I have had to tell a few that it's not about controlling another human at all. It's not even about sex for most of us (not as much as they think anyway). But they'll never learn, all that matters to them is sex (the act and the gender separations of man/woman).

Allaena said...

I love your blog! Very well put...I've never been able to describe that "femininity" when I would try to explain why I love to be in a butch woman's arms, why her love is so amazing...no man could ever give me what she can! Kudos!!!

MoM said...

Just wau too true and awesome..very well said.. I'm not good with words when it comes to explaining that....yes..I LIKE IT>>>....lololfrom Bear the soft Butch