“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
“When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.” PeopleMenWorldLeftSpeakStuffBornBehindsTakenMen And WomenCharacteristicsApologyMisogyny Book:Butch is a Noun Source: Butch is a Noun
