“I want to be seen in the world as safe instead of strong” SafeProtectionButch Book:Butch is a Noun Source: Butch is a Noun
“I had great femme mentors, I had good role models of gentle men, I found ways to be a butch that did not require being an ass in public, ways of masculinity that were not misogyny - which is what I see more often than I used to these days, this way of butches distancing themselves from any and all things feminine by embodying the worst excesses of men, from relatively harmless ones like spitting on the street and wearing too much cheap cologne to behaving as though women were an entirely separate species of second-class citizen, the objects of jokes and derision.” MisogynyMasculinityFemmeButch Book:Butch is a Noun Source: Butch is a Noun
