Let mga women and nb people use butch/femme terminology
We are not hurting lesbians and we deserve words to express our gender presentation.
@diary-of-a-basement-dweller You do realize that:
a) mga women were in the same fucking community as lesbians until radfems decided to politicise lesbianism? There is no “lesbian culture” that does not include mga women, if we are talking about the past.
b) nb is fairly new thing. a lot of “women” in the past probably would have identified as nb or genderqueer if they had the terminology.
Just because we didn’t technically “exist” or were erased constantly from LGBT+ history, why should we have no right to language that’s always been ours? More importantly, why should we be gate kept from a this language now?
This is just such a ridiculous thing to advocate for. Femme and butch just refer to gender presentation and I see no reason why we shouldn’t use them when the definition applies to us,
Seems like a good post to remind people that the term femme was originally used by a lesbian to refer to her bi girlfriend.
