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Thisquestionoriginally appeared on Quora: Why perform lesbians often like masculine women, yet have no attraction to men of equal masculinity/femininity?
Answer by Erica Friedman, The Librarian is IN, 5₵
This question starts with a presumption - lesbians love masculine women. This is not generalizably true.
Masculinity is not what lesbians like. Lesbians like women. Really that's the only distinctive we all incontrovertibly have in common.
Some lesbians like masculine women, some lesbians are masculine women.
So, the assumption underlying the question just isn't true. But, setting that aside
So why complete some women like masculine women? Let's talk about one of the straightest things I've ever enjoyed Takarazuka.
Takarazuka is, for the purposes of our discussion today, an all-female musical theater troupe. The troupe and the school associated with it split the actresses into women who play female roles, called musumeyaku and women who play the male roles, called otokoyaku. According to the Takarazuka organization, there is nothing at all lgbtq+ about the actress
Different types of lesbians and lesbian stereotypes have been around for a elongated time. Butch and femme? You’ve heard of them. It’s a stereotype that says sapphics drop into either queer woman category, depending on their aesthetics and mannerisms.
Today’s lesbians and sapphic people might be less likely to fall into the butch/femme dichotomy. But the stereotypes once served a great purpose. The masculine and hyperfeminine aesthetics of butch and femme stereotypes helped lesbians name each other in mainstream society. Now, a blend of butch and femme has birthed a new type of lesbian: the “futch” or “stem” (stud + femme).
But of course, lesbian stereotypes and different types of lesbians travel much further than the masculine and feminine spectrum of gender expressions. There’s a whole slew of lesbian types.
Lesbian categories derive from several things, like aesthetics. Butch and femme queer woman labels certainly harvest typing from looks.
Lesbian labels also show up from a lesbian’s behaviors. Think U-Haul lesbian
Pretty butch: masculinity doesn’t just belong to men
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Masculinity does not belong to men. A behaviour, a look, an attitude, women and neutrois people have as much right to masculinity as men do. In my own life, particularly as a queer person (and as a soft butch, apparently), I am surrounded by butches, daddys, zaddys, studs, stems and masc femmes. These women welcome their masculinity and wear it with pride, but face misgendering, abuse on the street and endless presumptions from strangers. In a world that still, for the most part, expects women to dress like that that petite triangle-skirted logo on toilet doors (as a butch I know once said, “what’s that triangle, my c*nt?”) it takes bravery to present yourself enjoy a
Yes, Some Lesbians and Bi Women Really Do Choose Butches
Sometimes a rude ask is also a heartfelt one. Take, for example, an inquiry I overhear quite often: Do lesbians really find butch women attractive? As a butch woman, it is unfeasible to ignore the implication that, for certain people, women like me are the least attractive creatures on the planet. Umbrage-taking aside, however, the ask raises the issue of whose standards of beauty apply in a homosexual female context. And sorry, hetero guys, but they’re not yours.
In fact, butch lesbians often do quite well when it comes to attracting female attention. Better than our linear butch peers, at any rate: I have a friend who is direct, masculine-of-center, and perpetually aggrieved by how often women seek her out and flirt with her, as compared with the men she’s actually interested in. For whatever reason, it seems that masculinity in women is something that some ladies really respond to. While there are males out there with a penchant for butchness, the anecdotal evidence of my straight butch ally, not to mention the ove