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Women who are "aggressive" or who play the masculine roles are referred to as butches, bulldaggers or stud broads.

BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 2009

This imposition of a heteronormative framework upon lesbian relationships is not only insulting, it is especially dangerous as a cognitive device for understanding lesbian battering, because it feeds the common myth about abusive lesbian relationships that "butches" are batterers and "femmes" their victims. 21

'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

Nothing butches up your wounds like an official duct tape band-aid.

Boing Boing 2009

Bulldaggers, tomboys, drag kings, butches, gender queers, and dapper dykes ruled the runway in West Hollywood on Friday night at the Invincible fashion show.

Pandora Young: This Ain't No Paris Runway -- L.A.'s Butch Fashion Show Pandora Young 2010

If the only thing you can attack Obama with is lies, petty rumors and hopeful dirty information on him then you gays and butches are up a creek without a paddle.

A Clinton backer turns to McCain 2008

Nothing butches up your wounds like an official duct tape band-aid.

Boing Boing 2008

Allie said, "Have you all been reading about how yet another bunch of academics are writing about us out here on the front lines, this time talking about how we are secret butches and femmes?"

GINNY BATES: BACK TO HOW IT ALL BEGAN Maggie Jochild 2007

Feel free, also, to tell them that if us queers do not get our rights we will rise up: the big bad butches will rip the tires off your car.

So friends list, do you find this appropriate? shweta_narayan 2009

I had an understanding that was mostly instinctive based on the many lovers I've had who have come out as male ... but I won't pin it on them, I also have a craving of cross gendered power relations that found an acceptable framework through my relationships with the butches I've been in relationship with.

WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN Maggie Jochild 2007

Apparently the cocktail of faith-based greed begat by the raygun era and ramped up by the butches was too much for the addictive mindset of americans to recover from.

OpEdNews - Diary: New Hampshire, Kucinich & ABC's Dirty Trick 2008