butch-femme

“For lesbians, despair at the outdated butch-femme stereotypes.”

The Guardian: Gay roles on television need to be real

“I understand when women have to come up with some kind of system to navigate through the terrain of intimacy, like butch-femme or S/M or other games.”

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“I remember reading about the hostility to "role playing" in the butch-femme pairing in either _Stone Butch Blues_ or _Zami_ or maybe both?”

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“The delightful butch-femme Timberlands are now in the trash.”

Archive 2007-12-01

“Okay, I know Amanda has so wisely brought this up, but ownership has been a part of marriage for a LONG time and no, Pietro, this is not the same as a power imbalance, I know a LOT of butch-femme couples and while they revel in the way they play with power, this is not about legal ownership.”

How did anti-SSM folks frame their case?

“James Michener's informative 1963 novel Caravans refers to it frequently (Here's an amusing excerpt describing Kabul's butch-femme warrior couples, who are the product of Afghan men seldom seeing what a real woman looks like).”

Andrew Sullivan and armed pederasts

“So, the butch-femme binary depicted in the media is not a universal rule.”

Sayoni Speak

“What I believe is outdated is the 'categorisation' of lesbians as types, by ourselves or the outside world, especially when it's in terms of some kind of butch-femme role play.”

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