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  • For lesbians, despair at the outdated butch-femme stereotypes.

    Gay roles on television need to be real Sue Perkins 2010

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

    Notes From The Archive: Some Of Those Nasty Rumors You Heard About Some Feminists Are True Tenured Radical 2009

  • 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.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- NO U-HAULS, JUST BORROW A FRIEND'S TRUCK Maggie Jochild 2007

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

    Archive 2007-12-01 Becca 2007

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

    A Sad and Pathetic Tale Becca 2007

  • 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? 2004

  • 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).

    Archive 2001-12-02 Steve Sailer 2001

  • 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 Steve Sailer 2001

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

    Sayoni Speak Sayoni 2010

  • Farrow recalls an anecdote of a butch-femme dyke scene at the corner of Yonge and Gerrard in the 1950s.

    unknown title 2009

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