~ The Beauty of Female Masculinity ~ Images and Videos

[Enigma]

~Dedicated to the Beauty of Female Masculinity~


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[The_Lady_Snow]

I am female masculinity... Images not included

[Andrew, Jr.]

Great video! Thank you for posting it. I really enjoyed watching it. :hangloose:

Andrew

[Enigma]

Great video! Thank you for posting it. I really enjoyed watching it. :hangloose:

Andrew






Isn't it? I adore beauty of all kinds, my very favorite, the kind that comes from the heart.



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:rose:

I would love to see more images; its all good!

:danceparty:

[amiyesiam]

The galleries are a good place to start

[Damara]

Enigma....what a wonderful thread.

I would love to add to it with the following picture and writing I recently found. I also want to make sure that I give the proper attribution to the author and site where this is posted. Their name is Robin and the site is: http://open.salon.com/blog/robin_sneed/2009/04/17/the_butch-femme_mystique

http://www.kareneverett.org/images/img_sweet.jpg

I do not know the answers to the intellectual questions about who I am

I cannot be any other person

I have labels

Sometimes, I am called a soft butch

Lesbian

Dyke

In other moments

I am called someone who is destroying the fabric of our nation

On the inside
I am a boy who is in love with a girl
Just
that
human


-Robin

[Enigma]

The galleries are a good place to start

OMG, amiyesiam, you're not kidding! I just found the gallery!! Thank you for that.


(Off to peruse....)


:byebye:

[diamondrose]

that video was absolutly amazing, thank you for sharing it!

[princessbelle]

Wow to the video

There is nothing more beautiful, amazing, dynamic, sensual, breathtaking, stunning, attractive, drop dead gorgeous than ...female masculinity.

Thank you to all who posses that and who enlighten and transfer that energy into a wonderful species of life.

[waxnrope]

This is wonderful, Enigma! Thanks for posting it and starting the thread. I hope that there are more contributions forthcoming!

[Passionaria]

KD Lang and Cindy Crawford

http://www.morethings.com/music/kd_lang/kd-lang-cindy-crawford-close-shave.JPG

[Spirit Dancer]

Sophia Wallace: Strong Connection
Some great photos and reading
http://www.outimpact.com/activism/sophia-wallace-strong-connection-1119-23

[BullDog]

Sophia Wallace: Strong Connection
Some great photos and reading
http://www.outimpact.com/activism/sophia-wallace-strong-connection-1119-23

Thank you Spirit Dancer, I love her work. I found her website with more:

http://www.sophiawallacephotography.com/

[The_Lady_Snow]

FEMALE MASCULINITY


http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=842&ppuser=40

[Spirit Dancer]

http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/SpiritDancer46/1882960924_84c590ff8e.jpg

[Spirit Dancer]

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l19/gnavarro_02/Pam.jpg

[betenoire]

~Dedicated to the Beauty of Female Masculinity~

I'd like to see something like this with a wider cross-section of ages. I mean, nobody in those videos could have been older than 25. Hot older people need to represent and stuff!

(Although, you know the one with the mohawk close to the end? I would like to teach that one a thing or two about a thing or two. And then shrink 'em down for handy depositing in my handbag. For whenever I need a snack. Sorry, was that creepy of me?)

[Nat]

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[Nat]

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[Nat]

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[Nat]

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[waxnrope]

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[Passionaria]

http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/frida/frida_suit.jpg

http://lisawallerrogers.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/frida-1924.jpg

[waxnrope]

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[waxnrope]

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[waxnrope]

sorry, I kinda got off topic ... don't trash me; my mind drifts these ways. LOL.

[Passionaria]

nT601x6H7ps

:vigil: I second that emotion, AMEN!!!

[Lady Pamela]

http://rabbitwrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/drag-king8.jpg

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l65lcctA1e1qzk5h3o1_500.png

[weatherboi]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WQ6X165QL.jpg

[weatherboi]

http://www.twizart.com/images/messy.jpg

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5j7gomBMG1qzk5h3o1_500.jpg

[SuperFemme]

HoyWHfzww04

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3s1kr6oIL1qau4yro1_500.jpg

[ruthie14]

*Fanning myself* Ya'll are making me hot!

[chefhmboyrd]

i love women
i think they all have Hotness
sometimes they just need to find it in themselves and let it out!

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3j8jvqpu51qzk5h3o1_500.jpg

[Gemme]

I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thank you for posting it.

Now, I'm off to gaze at the hottie to the side of me instead of those on video and/or celluloid. :tease:

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3iqhjsaAC1qzk5h3o1_500.jpg

[Daywalker]

:vampirebat:

LeLhmUglJQE

:batman:

:daywalker:

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l349exGP1k1qzk5h3o1_500.png

[Kenna]

http://www2.bakersfieldcollege.edu/jstratton/images/rosie_riveter.jpg

[dykeumentary]

I am making a short holiday video-card for the Femmes who are into "silver fox" female masculinity. Send me a photo of yourself or a masculine female silver fox you know, and i will include it. Please message me and I'll give you the email address to send them. Thanks!

[HumV4me]

mmmmmmmmmm love love love this thread!

[Miss Scarlett]

mmmmmmmmmm love love love this thread!

Me too...how on earth did I miss this thread too? This is like the 5th I've discovered in the last couple of days...

[Spirit Dancer]

http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo86/suzannewestenhoefer/suzanne01-web.jpg

[Lady Pamela]

http://hunterforjustice.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553bc36a388340120a5c02fa0970c-800wi

[AnaLee]

I'm happy to see the title of this thread. I have known many butch/ftm/femalemasculine folk who would get upset when the word "beautiful was used to describe them. I think they are very beautiful ... mmm mmm mmm very beautiful.

Thanks for this thread
Sweet thoughts
Ana

[Miss Scarlett]

http://hunterforjustice.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553bc36a388340120a5c02fa0970c-800wi

Billy Tipton!

Great pic, interesting story...

[girl_dee]

http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx165/LOL_56/peppermint_patty.gif

[iamkeri1]

I LOVE images of female mascullinity, and the pictured individuals are fab. For myself, I prefer fewer piercings, especially in the mouth and tongue area.

I think the topless pics are particularly interesting. The poses which support the aura of masculinity, are sur prisfoxesing and delightful to say the least.

These pics so far do focus on a single age and class (style even )and like some others I am really looking forward to seeing images of silver foxes.

Nat the Ciara video you posted is astonishing in its intensity and multiplicity of female masculine images. I loved, loved loved it. It encouraged me to go to youtube looking for more Ciara. I found this fantastic video by Ciara and LaLa (Vasquez) in support of gay teens.
Smooches,
Keri


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[Miss Scarlett]

http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx165/LOL_56/peppermint_patty.gif


OMG...my first crush!

[desperado010652]

interesting but agest and very offending to older butches.

[girl_dee]

OMG...my first crush!

Mine too!!! Her pal Marcy calls her *Sir*...

*swooooOOOooOn* :drool:

[Jess]

I'm not following this, what exactly is offensive?

I didn't find anything offensive either. As one of the "older" butches, it does my heart good to see such appreciation for female masculinity. It also makes me a bit nostalgic for the days when I felt that strong in my body.

I love the generation following us who are bringing visibility to the shadows we have cast.

[citybutch]

....ditto....

Interested to see an answer to the question....

I didn't find anything offensive either. As one of the "older" butches, it does my heart good to see such appreciation for female masculinity. It also makes me a bit nostalgic for the days when I felt that strong in my body.

I love the generation following us who are bringing visibility to the shadows we have cast.

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/117/1/7/My_gal_Giola_posing_for_me_by_aidavdbrake.jpg

[Martina]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4664004509_ec400d2454.jpg

[Miss Scarlett]

Mine too!!! Her pal Marcy calls her *Sir*...

*swooooOOOooOn* :drool:

I always liked that about her too...

[girl_dee]

another old crush o'mine .....http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f91/kaylyne/facts%20of%20life/NMJopic.jpg

[Random]

I love this picture of Kate..

She has always felt like such a combo of masculine and femine to me..

She was my first confusing crush... I didn't know if I wanted to be her or be with her... I just know she made me confused... grin... in a good way...


http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/images/directors/04/33/sylvia_scarlet_hepburn.jpg

[iamkeri1]

Sally Kohn - Hot Hot Hot
Smooches,
Keri


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[iamkeri1]

http://movementvision.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/SallyKohn-831.jpg

[iamkeri1]

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[AtLast]

I have to say that it makes my heart and soul giggle to see this thread!

I remember the first time another woman complimented my female masculinity- I realized there were women out there that thought I was just fine as I am.

Thank you femmes of the world!

[Reader]

A gratuitous bump for the femmes.

Rachel Maddow

http://www.rachelmaddow.com/

[Daywalker]

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/261922_164224070315332_100001832211292_386080_3134 8_n.jpg




:daywalker:

[Reader]

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/261922_164224070315332_100001832211292_386080_3134 8_n.jpg




:daywalker:




...slight derail...when I saw this fabulous photo, I immediately thought of Ariel in NYC. Anyone remember that awesome old dyke bar on 19th street? I don't think it is there any longer.

[Star Anise]

http://crashpadseries.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/afrodisiac/afrodisiac3.jpg

http://crashpadseries.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/Jonah/Jonah3.jpg

http://crashpadseries.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/mik/MJ_1512.jpg

http://crashpadseries.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/musclebeach/IMG_5610.jpg

http://crashpadseries.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/puck/IMG_7328.jpg

Last one I swear:

http://crashpadseries.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/shawn/ST_9310B.jpg

[sweetiefemme]

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa50/juliehernandez7/singer/pink.jpg

[redrose]

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/30878_10150186085440223_284822440222_12152785_1209 403_n.jpg

[SelfMadeMan]

Just popping in to say that I think female masculinity is HOT!! Thanks for sharing everyone!

[Heart]

X Factor 2011 Sarah - Come Together (Live Show 2) - YouTube

[weatherboi]

http://justatitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/suze.jpg

[*Anya*]

Hawwwwt!!!

Heart (and other parts) be still!!

[dykeumentary]

Here I am, an ever-more-creaky old butch, on wash day.
I'd love to see photos of other butches from this site doing sports.
http://youtu.be/427ciDo9bfY A Dyke Does Her Laundry

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[bbdoll]

WOW BUTCHES ROCK !!!
~Dedicated to the Beauty of Female Masculinity~

[INUREYESIC1000CHURCHES]

WOW BUTCHES ROCK !!!

Ty bbdoll, we rock gently, we rock slowly, we take it EZ don't you know, that we have never been in love like this B-4... lol an oldie but a goody...:bouquet:

[StoneOne]

this thread it makes me feel right at home. Love to all the beautiful femmes out there.

[1ladyface]

I've never dated a butch with clothes that clean *before* the wash. Where's the mud and plaster and sawdust? ;)

[Nat]

That's how I do laundry :) but no shirts with numbers. If only I'd seen this at 15, I coulda known :)

[dykeumentary]

I've never dated a butch with clothes that clean *before* the wash. Where's the mud and plaster and sawdust? ;)

So you've never dated an athletic butch during indoor soccer season? I recommend it. Might be hot.
Sounds like you go for construction worker-types. Thank you!

[rustedrims]

I've never dated a butch with clothes that clean *before* the wash. Where's the mud and plaster and sawdust? ;)

If a Butch has plaster,mud and sawdust on his clothes then he knows how to wash it all out..Do you know why he knows how to wash it out.???. Because his Mommy showed him how to do it..My Mom showed me a long time ago..I have clean looking stained Levis..If you could imagine what that looks like..

[Inked_Trinity]

Here I am, an ever-more-creaky old butch, on wash day.
I'd love to see photos of other butches from this site doing sports.
http://youtu.be/427ciDo9bfY A Dyke Does Her Laundry

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/427ciDo9bfY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Here ya go! My sport of choice!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/224377_10150190128951838_517846837_7031707_3469563 _n.jpg

[AtLast]

All I know is that it is fantastic that there are women out there that appreciate and are attracted to female masculinity! THANK YOU, Femmes!

[CherylNYC]

All I know is that it is fantastic that there are women out there that appreciate and are attracted to female masculinity! THANK YOU, Femmes!

There is nothing sexier on earth than a masculine woman.

[Countyfem]

There is nothing sexier on earth than a masculine woman.

I second that!

[funkyfemme]

There is nothing sexier on earth than a masculine woman.

You got that right sister!!! Makes this femme swoon!

[smouldering]

Yeah i am with the rest of the femmes here.. Yes please!! :) Gotta love butches who are comfortable in their own skin and can keep us on our toes!

[chai~]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/416983_375535945806464_134154669944594_1500138_704 477531_n.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/91479436150830519_e2jQZtzu_c.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/261650_232426476784079_134154669944594_999708_3841 769_n.jpg

[*Anya*]

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lesbian.history/files/kurzawa_radclyffe.jpg

[*Anya*]

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lesbian.history/files/kurzawa_boots7.jpg

[*Anya*]

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lesbian.history/files/kurzawa_boots5.jpg

[*Anya*]

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lesbian.history/files/kurzawa_mabelsylvia.jpg

[*Anya*]

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lesbian.history/files/b11_hitchcockweb.jpg

[deedarino]

I wish they could all see us now.

[Talon]

I love this picture of Kate..

She has always felt like such a combo of masculine and femine to me..

She was my first confusing crush... I didn't know if I wanted to be her or be with her... I just know she made me confused... grin... in a good way...


http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/images/directors/04/33/sylvia_scarlet_hepburn.jpg


Great pic, Random. Such a beautiful face.

[LaneyDoll]

I love this picture of Kate..

She has always felt like such a combo of masculine and femine to me..

She was my first confusing crush... I didn't know if I wanted to be her or be with her... I just know she made me confused... grin... in a good way...


http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/images/directors/04/33/sylvia_scarlet_hepburn.jpg



Mmmm, yummy!

:sparklyheart:

[Beloved]

I love her. Yum.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyh0dzHyMz1ro6u32o1_r1_500.jpg

[girl_dee]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls5ape75uw1qd76lk.jpg

Betty “Joe” Carstairs (1900-1993): filthy-rich heiress, owner of a tropical island, ambulance driver in WWI, champion speed boat racer, infamous womanizer, tattooed biker, and - last but not least - lover of Marlene Dietrich, as well as the only person daring to call the Dietrich ‘babe’.

[mariamma]

Please know AtLast (and every butch/boi/stud in the world) that there are many femmes aching with appreciation of masculine women. :sunglass:All I know is that it is fantastic that there are women out there that appreciate and are attracted to female masculinity! THANK YOU, Femmes!

[Lady Pamela]

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lesbian.history/files/kurzawa_radclyffe.jpg

[Spirit Dancer]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/ingy_03/286571445.gif

[Spirit Dancer]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/ingy_03/vcvg36.jpg

[LaneyDoll]

http://futfs.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/a73db_48539-800w.jpg

:sparklyheart:

[Lady Pamela]

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lesbian.history/files/ethyl_waters.jpg

[Metro]

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3421/3954831369_fe7344f5ba.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/42981571@N08/3954831369/)

[Toughy]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls5ape75uw1qd76lk.jpg

Betty “Joe” Carstairs (1900-1993): filthy-rich heiress, owner of a tropical island, ambulance driver in WWI, champion speed boat racer, infamous womanizer, tattooed biker, and - last but not least - lover of Marlene Dietrich, as well as the only person daring to call the Dietrich ‘babe’.

Her other nick name was Tuffy. There is a book about her life. She also bought her very own island in the carribean.

The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale

[Passionaria]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/71768_495291572151_708457151_7051036_7607513_n.jpg

[bright_arrow]

There is nothing sexier on earth than a masculine woman.

Hell to the fuckin' yeah!

*whilst shooting happy sideglances at her sleeping butch beside her*

I was one hella lost femme 'til I was introduced to butches.. :sunglass: All I can say is Viva la female masculinity and those that let it shine through! and may you all know how wonderful, and wonderfully gorgeous, you all are.. I still think suits were absolutely made for butches. Can you say SEEXXXYYYY?!

All my love,
One appreciative femme

[girl_dee]

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/queen-latifah-cleo.jpg

[LaneyDoll]

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPjCSU0PZhaPVTG1ZYwn_dBNSNUkP75 6-Z9tknLgSU-AXi_mgOr2_gFfwB

:sparklyheart:

[chai~]

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/queen-latifah-cleo.jpg

sweet baby j#sus, I loved her in this movie!!!!!!

le~ sssaaaa~WOOOONNNN

[chai~]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/rosie-the-riveter-1943jpgBlog.jpg

I like to think this version of "Rosie" is a butch!
Those hands, those arms, thick neck!!!!
Oh yes please!!!!!

[girl_dee]

http://www.qualiafolk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/SkylerCooper.jpg
Skyler Cooper, one of nine African American Lesbians featured in the 2003 documentary, Butch Mystique by Debra A. Wilson (bklynboihood.tumblr.com/post/18830293304/fineboi-skyler-cooper-from-the-butch-mystique)

[Toughy]

http://www.qualiafolk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/SkylerCooper.jpg
Skyler Cooper, one of nine African American Lesbians featured in the 2003 documentary, Butch Mystique by Debra A. Wilson (bklynboihood.tumblr.com/post/18830293304/fineboi-skyler-cooper-from-the-butch-mystique)

You should see Skyler in person...............damn that is one hot butch

[Maverick]

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStVDQjzy4Pk6cUN0gVMcoFDRUl5VPGK MIcbI2shJAqFG_wg_ri

[~ocean]

dayummmmm skyler cooper .......oh babyyy

[LaneyDoll]

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/LaneyDoll/300-KristenStewart-ELLE1-jpg_220127.jpg

:sparklyheart:

[iamkeri1]

This video is a little long, but its a tribute to butches, as well as being presented by a butch. Love me some butches!
Smooches,
Keri


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[rustedrims]

That Pic is SEXY AS HELL..!!!!!..

[Quintease]

This is from 100 Lesbian Films (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.379850282034081.95854.376430355709407&type=1)

I've also just realised that this (http://www.tophotbutches.com/)hasn't been updated since 2009. Anyone know what happened?

[CherylNYC]

I've also just realised that this (http://www.tophotbutches.com/)hasn't been updated since 2009. Anyone know what happened?

I don't know if Sinclair intends to revisit this project. She's been really busy with her writing career here in NYC. She recently put together a butch/femme erotica compilation. I'll ask her about it the next time I run into her.

[chai~]

I know they're young, but baby butches start somewhere!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/tumblr_m4j4biPdT21qhjq45o1_500.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/tumblr_lhnqexFZyR1qfvxnxo1_500.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/51228514481450830_rIM8XAiL_c.jpg

[Little Fish]

Oh how funny, I think I have those boots in the top picture....

[mariamma]

This is from 100 Lesbian Films (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.379850282034081.95854.376430355709407&type=1)

I've also just realised that this (http://www.tophotbutches.com/)hasn't been updated since 2009. Anyone know what happened?

Oh my goodness :) :) :) Me like-y so much. Thank you Quintease. It's official, I want a stud.

[Talon]

This video is a little long, but its a tribute to butches, as well as being presented by a butch. Love me some butches!
Smooches,
Keri


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Very nice, keri....I :heartbeat: Ivan Coyote.

[Novelafemme]

I know they're young, but baby butches start somewhere!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/tumblr_m4j4biPdT21qhjq45o1_500.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/tumblr_lhnqexFZyR1qfvxnxo1_500.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ashera1/51228514481450830_rIM8XAiL_c.jpg


:blush: ::::fans self:::::

[Nat]

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[girl_dee]

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0002/748/MI0002748673.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

[Ginger]

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0002/748/MI0002748673.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

It's the eyes, the look in her eyes.

[Metro]

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Bumpin'

[Butchone1969]

HoyWHfzww04

[Butchone1969]

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[Butchone1969]

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[Angeltoes]

Thank you...that was much appreciated. :heartbeat:

[Lady Pamela]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Jack_Halberstam_03.jpg/220px-Jack_Halberstam_03.jpg


Judith/Jack Halberstam, 2011 Judith Halberstam, also Jack Halberstam, (born 15 December 1961) is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California. Halberstam was an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego before working at USC. She (also sometimes using male pronouns) has made contributions as a gender and queer theorist and author.

Halberstam primarily focuses on the topics of tomboys and female masculinity and has published a book titled after the concept. In this work, she famously discusses a common by-product of gender binarism, termed "the bathroom problem". This outlines the dangerous and awkward dilemma of a perceived gender deviant's justification of presence in a gender-policed zone, such as a public bathroom, and the identity implications of "passing" therein.

Halberstam earned her BA with a major in English, at the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. She received her MA from the University of Minnesota in 1989, and her PhD from the same school in 1991.

The Queer Art of Failure argues that failure can be productive, a way of critiquing capitalism and heteronormativity. Using examples from popular culture, like Pixar animated films, Halberstam explores alternatives to individualism and conformity. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, looks at queer subculture and proposes a conception of time and space independent of the influence of normative heterosexual/familial lifestyle. Halberstam has been nominated three times for Lambda Literary Awards, twice for her most widely-known non-fiction book, Female Masculinity. She coedits with Lisa Lowe, "Perverse Modernities," a book series with Duke University Press.

[Breathless]

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[Breathless]

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i345/Breathless218/2004275408.jpg

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i345/Breathless218/p_e02.jpg

[bcelly1894]

Tc1IphRx1pk

Bumpin'

I love Grace Jones. Her undeniable Fire and Strength. As a young person growing up seeing her on tv and magazines, My descriptions of her were....STRONG, AFRICAN, BLACK, LESBIAN, POWER. I just always thought that she was gay like me, even though I was just a child. I didnt get her music. But in her photos she always seemed to be screaming, "F-You"!:thefinger: To the world, And I loved that.:poc-biggrin:

[SugarFemme]

K.D Lang or "K-Daddy" is MY future Ex-Daddy and she doesn't even know it. Yet. Don't be haters because she's MINE!!! LMAOOO





http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i345/Breathless218/2004275408.jpg

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i345/Breathless218/p_e02.jpg

[bcelly1894]

I would love to see a photo of selma hayek in a tuxedo smoking a big ole cigar, with her beautiful hair flowing over the front of her suit.

[Femminator]

This Femme is really appreciating all the fine Butches on this thread. I went through it twice!

Never think that you are not appreciated by us Femmes, we cherish you as much as you cherish us.

[Slowpurr]

Please add Butch stars to my movie and TV viewing. No casting call necessary;just view the videos posted by ButchOne. I promise to watch faithfully.

PS Don't forget the FTM stars.

[Dance-with-me]

I can't post the pic directly from my phone but had to share this link of a young Rachel Maddow.

http://www.shewired.com/box-office/2012/09/21/shewired-shot-day-young-fierce-rachel-maddow

Holy Mother of Maude as much as I admire her in so many different ways now, I would have had a had time resisting shamelessly throwing myself at her back then - even though at the time this pic was taken in '98 she was 26 and I was 39. Still... :::fanning mysel::: whew.

Oh, hell, who am I kidding: given the chance I'd still probably humiliate myself over her.

[bright_arrow]

Found this and wanted to pass it along :)

"What is attractive about a butch lesbian?"

Ooh, what a delightful question. I love everything about butch women, and I always have. More feminine girls just don't do anything for me sexually- I can objectively admire their beauty and sexiness, but in the end, it's when I see a woman who is androgynous, boyish, or plain out manly, my heart starts to pitter-patter. So let me sing an ode to butches here, because far too often all I see is "Eww, yuck, I like my women to look like women!", and that's so sad.

I love butch hair. I like the way the women who wear it- whether it's short or long- use their hair in a completely different way than do feminine women- they don't flip it or toss it or curl it around their fingers, but sometimes they run their hands through it that special way. I love the way short hair looks so distinguished on a strong face that would otherwise be hidden by length, and I love the way a shaved butch head both reveals a butch's masculinity in attitude, and femininity in the face and head that emerge.

I love butch faces. I love the androgynous and tomboyish faces that are beautiful, elvish, almost- the girls who could be extraordinarily beautiful in femme drag. But more than that I love the butch faces that can't do that- that look ridiculous when painted up and framed by a wig. I love strong, square jaws that are firmly held rather than slack. I love high foreheads and thick brows that other people would probably want to pluck and shape. I love butch eyes, that are always so extraordinary. Not hidden by tons of makeup or weighted down with the way femme women often look away, it's like looking into their souls. I love the way a butch speaks with her eyes- those direct stares that say "I love you." or make you break out in a hot flush from across the room. I love butch mouths, which are the ultimate combination: soft and sensuous girl lips that don't act like girl lips- no pouting or worried thinning or other 'femme' signs.

I love butch bodies, every way they come. I like the way that the butch female form is somehow hidden in its clothing- from the T-shirt and jeans to the sharpest cut suit, you can always tell it's there, in the hips, the luscious curve of breast, but it's not on display the way femme clothing screams "boobs here! butt here!". I love muscles on a woman's body, more than the average sporty femme should have, bulging, tensing. I love butches who don't shave their legs or their armpits, who own the hair on their body, and how though it's long, most people don't realize it's downy soft, too, a beautiful covering. I love butch boobs, because they are such a prize, alternatively hated and ignored by their owners. I love little butch tts and big butch tts- I love the shape they make on a boxy body and I adore the juxtaposition of hard muscle, soft breast. I love to see a butch unwind her binding and the breasts to spill out like presents, and then get wrapped up again for the world, a secret only I've had access to. I love butch legs and torsos- they are so often trunk-like, solid. Even when they're scrawny, they have a centeredness, a strength. Muscled butch legs, smooth or hairy, get me every time. I love the way so many butches adorn their bodies, bodies that aren't supposed to be, but get decorated anyways- butch piercings and tattoos- a ring around a bicep makes me melt. I love the way butches smell- not cloyingly, sickeningly sweet like femmes' perfume or other body scents, but clean, fresh, sometimes musky and sour with cologne, but always different, always, somehow, natural.

I love butch fashion- I am quite simply and utterly delighted by the way women wear what's regarded as men's clothing. For anyone who's ever thought that butches are lazy dressers, I want to point out the woman who looks so utterly dashing in her suit and tie, or just a dress shirt and slacks, the boi who is able to rock a Justin Timberlake look, right down to the fedora, who makes a wifebeater look as tasty as it can be, who make men in theirs look sallowly concave at the chest. I love the studded belts that punk butches wear, the boys jeans that fit off-kilter around their hips just enough. I cannot begin to explain the heat it generates to see a butch in boxers, or better yet, boxer-briefs or boy's underwear, those legs branching up to the three-pronged cut, the flap lying flat and empty, or maybe bulging with a packer. I love the fact that nearly every butch owns a pair of boots, solid, thundering boots that look so army powerful and commanding when they wear them. I love a woman in men's clothing.

I love the way butches act. I love the particular way a butch woman acts "like a man", but with a woman's way- gentlemanly ettiquette and all. I don't know how to describe that it's not hardly even the butch qualities (sitting wide-legged and spread out, standing tall and firm), but rather how comfortable and natural she is being that way that makes it so good. I love the way butches are playful and funny but not coy or manipulative- I love their straight-forwardness. I love that "bulldagger swagger" so full of confidence and seriousness, that peacock strut. I love the way butches feel a masculine sense of obligation and duty and protection, but it doesn't translate into male ego. My heart squeezes at the way butches deal with their emotions- sometimes hiding it, swallowing it down, and that facade of pride and bravado. I love the way butches act- so confident, so gentlemanly, so tough. I love butch voices- the ones that are pitched too low, but refuse to take on the sort of drawl that would turn it into a throaty, sultry femme voice. I love the way butches can navigate the world- not in competition with men, but buddies and friends, and yet slide into women's land and have that identity, too.

I love the way butches have sex- how they know just what to do, and want to do it so very badly. I love the way butches use their hands like sex organs for delicate handlings. I love the outline of a strap-on contained in jeans or underwear. I love butches who can orgasm by jerking off their silicone c*cks, whose metaphysical erections are so strong in their minds that the touch practically translates. I absolutely am addicted to the faces of butch pleasure- the eyes rolling back in the head, the body shudders, the complete way a feminine orgasm rolls through a butch body, made masculine by it. I love butches who top but more I love butches who bottom or do both- I am drawn to butch women who know that being touched and penetrated and pleasured doesn't invalidate her butchness, doesn't feminize her, doesn't equal submission. I love butches who are into BDSM, who look fantastic in leather and who take slow, careful deliberation in their acts, who wear that power like an easy mantle. I love butches who love other butches as well as femmes- those girls who know the true pleasures of same-sex relations, when the sameness is in two butch bodies banging together, mirror images, same intense ferocity and heat.

But perhaps most of all, I love butches for who they are in this world. My heart aches and yearns for the strength I feel from them, how every day they walk the world looking the way they do and basically inviting- and then bearing- attacks for not giving up and conforming to feminine ideals. I love them for being who they are, and not letting anyone tell them that women do not have crew cuts, or women don't wear ties, or women must be this, or must be that.

Simply put, I am in love and lust with butches, and I don't care if other people aren't (you can't control what you like), but I want them to understand that butches can be- and are- desirable. Just a few quotes to close up:

" . . . a butch 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." - S. Bear Bergman, "Butch Is a Noun"

:kissy:

[*Anya*]

Brigid, thank you so much for the piece that you posted. It is so well-written and perfectly describes why my heart, soul and body is attracted to lesbian/dyke butches.

This excerpt from your post captures it best:

"But perhaps most of all, I love butches for who they are in this world. My heart aches and yearns for the strength I feel from them, how every day they walk the world looking the way they do and basically inviting- and then bearing- attacks for not giving up and conforming to feminine ideals. I love them for being who they are, and not letting anyone tell them that women do not have crew cuts, or women don't wear ties, or women must be this, or must be that.

" . . . a butch 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." - S. Bear Bergman, 'Butch Is a Noun'."

[Butchone1969]

pN-py8zojfk&feature=g-vrec

[easygoingfemme]

This and the Femme video you posted, totally made my night. Laughed and Cried I did.

[StoneOne]

Found this and wanted to pass it along :)

"What is attractive about a butch lesbian?"

Ooh, what a delightful question. I love everything about butch women, and I always have. More feminine girls just don't do anything for me sexually- I can objectively admire their beauty and sexiness, but in the end, it's when I see a woman who is androgynous, boyish, or plain out manly, my heart starts to pitter-patter. So let me sing an ode to butches here, because far too often all I see is "Eww, yuck, I like my women to look like women!", and that's so sad.

I love butch hair. I like the way the women who wear it- whether it's short or long- use their hair in a completely different way than do feminine women- they don't flip it or toss it or curl it around their fingers, but sometimes they run their hands through it that special way. I love the way short hair looks so distinguished on a strong face that would otherwise be hidden by length, and I love the way a shaved butch head both reveals a butch's masculinity in attitude, and femininity in the face and head that emerge.

I love butch faces. I love the androgynous and tomboyish faces that are beautiful, elvish, almost- the girls who could be extraordinarily beautiful in femme drag. But more than that I love the butch faces that can't do that- that look ridiculous when painted up and framed by a wig. I love strong, square jaws that are firmly held rather than slack. I love high foreheads and thick brows that other people would probably want to pluck and shape. I love butch eyes, that are always so extraordinary. Not hidden by tons of makeup or weighted down with the way femme women often look away, it's like looking into their souls. I love the way a butch speaks with her eyes- those direct stares that say "I love you." or make you break out in a hot flush from across the room. I love butch mouths, which are the ultimate combination: soft and sensuous girl lips that don't act like girl lips- no pouting or worried thinning or other 'femme' signs.

I love butch bodies, every way they come. I like the way that the butch female form is somehow hidden in its clothing- from the T-shirt and jeans to the sharpest cut suit, you can always tell it's there, in the hips, the luscious curve of breast, but it's not on display the way femme clothing screams "boobs here! butt here!". I love muscles on a woman's body, more than the average sporty femme should have, bulging, tensing. I love butches who don't shave their legs or their armpits, who own the hair on their body, and how though it's long, most people don't realize it's downy soft, too, a beautiful covering. I love butch boobs, because they are such a prize, alternatively hated and ignored by their owners. I love little butch tts and big butch tts- I love the shape they make on a boxy body and I adore the juxtaposition of hard muscle, soft breast. I love to see a butch unwind her binding and the breasts to spill out like presents, and then get wrapped up again for the world, a secret only I've had access to. I love butch legs and torsos- they are so often trunk-like, solid. Even when they're scrawny, they have a centeredness, a strength. Muscled butch legs, smooth or hairy, get me every time. I love the way so many butches adorn their bodies, bodies that aren't supposed to be, but get decorated anyways- butch piercings and tattoos- a ring around a bicep makes me melt. I love the way butches smell- not cloyingly, sickeningly sweet like femmes' perfume or other body scents, but clean, fresh, sometimes musky and sour with cologne, but always different, always, somehow, natural.

I love butch fashion- I am quite simply and utterly delighted by the way women wear what's regarded as men's clothing. For anyone who's ever thought that butches are lazy dressers, I want to point out the woman who looks so utterly dashing in her suit and tie, or just a dress shirt and slacks, the boi who is able to rock a Justin Timberlake look, right down to the fedora, who makes a wifebeater look as tasty as it can be, who make men in theirs look sallowly concave at the chest. I love the studded belts that punk butches wear, the boys jeans that fit off-kilter around their hips just enough. I cannot begin to explain the heat it generates to see a butch in boxers, or better yet, boxer-briefs or boy's underwear, those legs branching up to the three-pronged cut, the flap lying flat and empty, or maybe bulging with a packer. I love the fact that nearly every butch owns a pair of boots, solid, thundering boots that look so army powerful and commanding when they wear them. I love a woman in men's clothing.

I love the way butches act. I love the particular way a butch woman acts "like a man", but with a woman's way- gentlemanly ettiquette and all. I don't know how to describe that it's not hardly even the butch qualities (sitting wide-legged and spread out, standing tall and firm), but rather how comfortable and natural she is being that way that makes it so good. I love the way butches are playful and funny but not coy or manipulative- I love their straight-forwardness. I love that "bulldagger swagger" so full of confidence and seriousness, that peacock strut. I love the way butches feel a masculine sense of obligation and duty and protection, but it doesn't translate into male ego. My heart squeezes at the way butches deal with their emotions- sometimes hiding it, swallowing it down, and that facade of pride and bravado. I love the way butches act- so confident, so gentlemanly, so tough. I love butch voices- the ones that are pitched too low, but refuse to take on the sort of drawl that would turn it into a throaty, sultry femme voice. I love the way butches can navigate the world- not in competition with men, but buddies and friends, and yet slide into women's land and have that identity, too.

I love the way butches have sex- how they know just what to do, and want to do it so very badly. I love the way butches use their hands like sex organs for delicate handlings. I love the outline of a strap-on contained in jeans or underwear. I love butches who can orgasm by jerking off their silicone c*cks, whose metaphysical erections are so strong in their minds that the touch practically translates. I absolutely am addicted to the faces of butch pleasure- the eyes rolling back in the head, the body shudders, the complete way a feminine orgasm rolls through a butch body, made masculine by it. I love butches who top but more I love butches who bottom or do both- I am drawn to butch women who know that being touched and penetrated and pleasured doesn't invalidate her butchness, doesn't feminize her, doesn't equal submission. I love butches who are into BDSM, who look fantastic in leather and who take slow, careful deliberation in their acts, who wear that power like an easy mantle. I love butches who love other butches as well as femmes- those girls who know the true pleasures of same-sex relations, when the sameness is in two butch bodies banging together, mirror images, same intense ferocity and heat.

But perhaps most of all, I love butches for who they are in this world. My heart aches and yearns for the strength I feel from them, how every day they walk the world looking the way they do and basically inviting- and then bearing- attacks for not giving up and conforming to feminine ideals. I love them for being who they are, and not letting anyone tell them that women do not have crew cuts, or women don't wear ties, or women must be this, or must be that.

Simply put, I am in love and lust with butches, and I don't care if other people aren't (you can't control what you like), but I want them to understand that butches can be- and are- desirable. Just a few quotes to close up:

" . . . a butch 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." - S. Bear Bergman, "Butch Is a Noun"

:kissy:
This really hit home for me on some of the things we face day to day as it is impossible to hide who I am not that I would want to, I am who I was born to be and I am proud and standing tall I have delt with this just being one of the facts of life lol unti my facial hair started comming in big time and I knew this was comming not from T or meds just what I have always had and shaving everyday and it has started to work quite well.
This really hit at a good time for me I feel appreciated and loved

Thank You so very much to all the beautiful feminine woman
I Love All of you

[Metro]

http://thebutchlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/tumblr_l8upa4rkmg1qa6z2yo1_5001.jpg

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

[Metro]

http://thebutchlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/charlize.jpg?w=995

Charlize Theron

[Metro]

http://thebutchlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cropped-the-butch-life.jpg

Photo credit: thebutchlife.wordpress.com/

[Metro]

http://thebutchlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/tumblr_mblbdjcanb1qddduoo1_2505.jpg?w=584

Photo credit: Elizabeth Ohlson Wallin

[Bella~Vita]

http://thebutchlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/charlize.jpg?w=995

Charlize Theron

Someone hose me down with cold water ...... ssssssssssizzling:|

[Metro]

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM4NzMzMTkwNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzU4MDg1Mw@@._ V1._SY314_CR18,0,214,314_.jpg

Tilda Swinton

[LeftWriteFemme]

http://www.legacy.com/UserContent/ns/Photos/hepburn3.jpg

[LeftWriteFemme]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo5c52YaFX1qmwhpyo1_400.jpg

[LeftWriteFemme]

http://www.cardcow.com/images/set447/card00657_fr.jpg

[LeftWriteFemme]

http://images.colourbox.com/thumb_COLOURBOX1446905.jpg

[LeftWriteFemme]

https://gardenofglam.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/dsc02415-version-2.jpg?w=580&h=773

[LeftWriteFemme]

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSXbM4Yj0BkA22WvpxFKOP-VTwR-M5D_8gTMMOWdXmYc6_KbC0f&t=1

[LeftWriteFemme]

http://www.arnoldkramer.com/Postcard_Three_Women_Dressed_as_Men.jpg

[bright_arrow]

A friend shared this on Facebook. Oohlala! Thanks was given to mambagirl.com

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/12855_302023023231255_566484480_n.jpg

[bright_arrow]

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/skyler_cooper_(2).jpg

Skyler Cooper

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://www.tophotbutches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/81marymac.jpg

[princessbelle]

http://i619.photobucket.com/albums/tt277/niki_belle75/girlswillbeboys6.jpg

Collection by Sophia Wallace

[dykeumentary]

Why so serious, butches?!

[Redsunflower]

Wow...what an amazing thread. The photos are fabulous, especially the old ones that give a real sense of butch/femme history. Every day's a good day to celebrate butch lesbians and I think I've just fallen in love with Ivan Coyote. Phew...hot or what?

I'm a newbie here and wanted to say thanks to Enigma for starting this thread and thanks to you all for creating this community. It looks like I'm going to have a lot of fun here. :sparklyheart:

[Girl_On_Fire]

http://www.kulturplakaten.dk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/meshell-ndegeocello.jpg

M'eshell Ndegeocello

[Girl_On_Fire]

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3iqhjsaAC1qzk5h3o1_500.jpg


Holy dear God yum! Just sayin' ;)

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://thebutchlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/533126_370126059701458_175785409135525_930598_2017 796745_n1.jpg

[lusciouskiwi]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/156918_327778927336388_1958671831_n.jpg

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://thebutchlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/angelica-huston.jpg?w=490

[deb0670]

http://advice.lovedetour.com/wp-content/uploads/Butch-girl.jpg

[deb0670]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkiycsua3F1qjasuwo1_1280.jpg

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://thebutchlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/katharine-hepburn.jpg?w=490

[lusciouskiwi]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/12881_432548773459507_1094673400_n.jpg

From: https://www.facebook.com/androgynousfashion

[*Anya*]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkiycsua3F1qjasuwo1_1280.jpg

Is it hot in here or is it just me?

Wow, just wow.

[Bèsame*]

Mmmmmm to the hip line tattoo. Is it hot in here or is it just me?

Wow, just wow.

[lusciouskiwi]

Mmmmmm to the hip line tattoo.

Mmmmmm to everything! I could nibble on her all day. :giggle:

[*Anya*]

Mmmmmm to the hip line tattoo.

Open on the dotted line?

I think i just found my new screen saver...

[eclectic_fox]

Oooh. I haven't been on this site for a while and just happened upon this thread. A feast for the eyes… yum!

[JinxieB]

Holy Moly...where is a cold shower when you need one...hahahaha

[bright_arrow]

Butch calendar?

http://itsallbutch.com/2011_calendar.html

ETA BF calendar? Oooh!

http://itsallbutch.com/2011_calendar.html

[spritzerJ]

Finally a calendar I could get into.

[Gemme]

Butch calendar?

http://itsallbutch.com/2011_calendar.html

ETA BF calendar? Oooh!

http://itsallbutch.com/2011_calendar.html

I liked the second one better. I didn't like the way some of the pics in the first one portrayed the femmes.

But I definitely loved the second one.

Good find, desd!

[bright_arrow]

I liked the second one better. I didn't like the way some of the pics in the first one portrayed the femmes.

But I definitely loved the second one.

Good find, desd!

I felt the same way about some of the pics and the femmes.

[Lady Pamela]

Billy Tipton

http://www.queermusicheritage.us/FEB2003/tipton-license.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Billy_Tipton.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tipton





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[SoSousMe]

Found this and wanted to pass it along :)

"What is attractive about a butch lesbian?"

Ooh, what a delightful question. I love everything about butch women, and I always have. More feminine girls just don't do anything for me sexually- I can objectively admire their beauty and sexiness, but in the end, it's when I see a woman who is androgynous, boyish, or plain out manly, my heart starts to pitter-patter. So let me sing an ode to butches here, because far too often all I see is "Eww, yuck, I like my women to look like women!", and that's so sad.

I love butch hair. I like the way the women who wear it- whether it's short or long- use their hair in a completely different way than do feminine women- they don't flip it or toss it or curl it around their fingers, but sometimes they run their hands through it that special way. I love the way short hair looks so distinguished on a strong face that would otherwise be hidden by length, and I love the way a shaved butch head both reveals a butch's masculinity in attitude, and femininity in the face and head that emerge.

I love butch faces. I love the androgynous and tomboyish faces that are beautiful, elvish, almost- the girls who could be extraordinarily beautiful in femme drag. But more than that I love the butch faces that can't do that- that look ridiculous when painted up and framed by a wig. I love strong, square jaws that are firmly held rather than slack. I love high foreheads and thick brows that other people would probably want to pluck and shape. I love butch eyes, that are always so extraordinary. Not hidden by tons of makeup or weighted down with the way femme women often look away, it's like looking into their souls. I love the way a butch speaks with her eyes- those direct stares that say "I love you." or make you break out in a hot flush from across the room. I love butch mouths, which are the ultimate combination: soft and sensuous girl lips that don't act like girl lips- no pouting or worried thinning or other 'femme' signs.

I love butch bodies, every way they come. I like the way that the butch female form is somehow hidden in its clothing- from the T-shirt and jeans to the sharpest cut suit, you can always tell it's there, in the hips, the luscious curve of breast, but it's not on display the way femme clothing screams "boobs here! butt here!". I love muscles on a woman's body, more than the average sporty femme should have, bulging, tensing. I love butches who don't shave their legs or their armpits, who own the hair on their body, and how though it's long, most people don't realize it's downy soft, too, a beautiful covering. I love butch boobs, because they are such a prize, alternatively hated and ignored by their owners. I love little butch tts and big butch tts- I love the shape they make on a boxy body and I adore the juxtaposition of hard muscle, soft breast. I love to see a butch unwind her binding and the breasts to spill out like presents, and then get wrapped up again for the world, a secret only I've had access to. I love butch legs and torsos- they are so often trunk-like, solid. Even when they're scrawny, they have a centeredness, a strength. Muscled butch legs, smooth or hairy, get me every time. I love the way so many butches adorn their bodies, bodies that aren't supposed to be, but get decorated anyways- butch piercings and tattoos- a ring around a bicep makes me melt. I love the way butches smell- not cloyingly, sickeningly sweet like femmes' perfume or other body scents, but clean, fresh, sometimes musky and sour with cologne, but always different, always, somehow, natural.

I love butch fashion- I am quite simply and utterly delighted by the way women wear what's regarded as men's clothing. For anyone who's ever thought that butches are lazy dressers, I want to point out the woman who looks so utterly dashing in her suit and tie, or just a dress shirt and slacks, the boi who is able to rock a Justin Timberlake look, right down to the fedora, who makes a wifebeater look as tasty as it can be, who make men in theirs look sallowly concave at the chest. I love the studded belts that punk butches wear, the boys jeans that fit off-kilter around their hips just enough. I cannot begin to explain the heat it generates to see a butch in boxers, or better yet, boxer-briefs or boy's underwear, those legs branching up to the three-pronged cut, the flap lying flat and empty, or maybe bulging with a packer. I love the fact that nearly every butch owns a pair of boots, solid, thundering boots that look so army powerful and commanding when they wear them. I love a woman in men's clothing.

I love the way butches act. I love the particular way a butch woman acts "like a man", but with a woman's way- gentlemanly ettiquette and all. I don't know how to describe that it's not hardly even the butch qualities (sitting wide-legged and spread out, standing tall and firm), but rather how comfortable and natural she is being that way that makes it so good. I love the way butches are playful and funny but not coy or manipulative- I love their straight-forwardness. I love that "bulldagger swagger" so full of confidence and seriousness, that peacock strut. I love the way butches feel a masculine sense of obligation and duty and protection, but it doesn't translate into male ego. My heart squeezes at the way butches deal with their emotions- sometimes hiding it, swallowing it down, and that facade of pride and bravado. I love the way butches act- so confident, so gentlemanly, so tough. I love butch voices- the ones that are pitched too low, but refuse to take on the sort of drawl that would turn it into a throaty, sultry femme voice. I love the way butches can navigate the world- not in competition with men, but buddies and friends, and yet slide into women's land and have that identity, too.

I love the way butches have sex- how they know just what to do, and want to do it so very badly. I love the way butches use their hands like sex organs for delicate handlings. I love the outline of a strap-on contained in jeans or underwear. I love butches who can orgasm by jerking off their silicone c*cks, whose metaphysical erections are so strong in their minds that the touch practically translates. I absolutely am addicted to the faces of butch pleasure- the eyes rolling back in the head, the body shudders, the complete way a feminine orgasm rolls through a butch body, made masculine by it. I love butches who top but more I love butches who bottom or do both- I am drawn to butch women who know that being touched and penetrated and pleasured doesn't invalidate her butchness, doesn't feminize her, doesn't equal submission. I love butches who are into BDSM, who look fantastic in leather and who take slow, careful deliberation in their acts, who wear that power like an easy mantle. I love butches who love other butches as well as femmes- those girls who know the true pleasures of same-sex relations, when the sameness is in two butch bodies banging together, mirror images, same intense ferocity and heat.

But perhaps most of all, I love butches for who they are in this world. My heart aches and yearns for the strength I feel from them, how every day they walk the world looking the way they do and basically inviting- and then bearing- attacks for not giving up and conforming to feminine ideals. I love them for being who they are, and not letting anyone tell them that women do not have crew cuts, or women don't wear ties, or women must be this, or must be that.

Simply put, I am in love and lust with butches, and I don't care if other people aren't (you can't control what you like), but I want them to understand that butches can be- and are- desirable. Just a few quotes to close up:

" . . . a butch 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." - S. Bear Bergman, "Butch Is a Noun"

:kissy:

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever read... thank you

[Girl_On_Fire]

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever read... thank you

That's incredible and exactly the way I feel about butches. (f)

[Girl_On_Fire]

http://itsallbutch.com/images/2013_models/august_heather/heather%20(4).jpg

**fans self**

[Nat]

VEXI3baCUEE

yyjTLQvWx8E

qjsyJ0KBaj0

[Inked_Trinity]

http://i.usatoday.net/sports/_photos/2012/07/26/Women-boxers-eager-for-Olympic-debut-V01UI15C-x-large.jpg

[nellsbells]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/4d67404d1710ec52a66d0d03b2fd84af/tumblr_mvqzukx46s1so4fm1o1_500.jpg

I'm about to blow this thread up, watch out.

[nellsbells]

http://31.media.tumblr.com/b44ca1e00b6889fc9d666b99b28ab459/tumblr_mvsuy2sTCi1r500f1o1_500.jpg

[nellsbells]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5b7e6AmKY1r500f1o1_500.jpg

[princessbelle]

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc410/jtapak_bucket/michonne.jpg (http://media.photobucket.com/user/jtapak_bucket/media/michonne.jpg.html)

[~baby~doll~]

Louise Brooks just awesome

http://images.vogue.it/imgs/galleries/encyclo/icone/013138/js1565647-263_0x420.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/gReeeneyes1/Louise%20Brooks/4328367184_762906b19d.jpg

[Nat]

9VUtNCdnl0Q

[LaDivina]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5b7e6AmKY1r500f1o1_500.jpg

Front row, second from the left, looks like a baby Jackhammer, just sayin'. xoxo

[Nat]

Front row, second from the left, looks like a baby Jackhammer, just sayin'. xoxo

Omg it does! Is jack a vampire?

[Girl_On_Fire]

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/files/authors/912/marlene_tux.jpg

[DapperButch]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/24/its-all-butch-calendar_n_4324632.html?ref=topbar

Huff Post article and link to 2014 calendar.

[Soon]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/24/its-all-butch-calendar_n_4324632.html?ref=topbar

Huff Post article and link to 2014 calendar.

Blood pressure raised with some of the comments, but some other ones were great.

Thanks for posting about it. Always nice to see community get a bit of representation!

[Asari]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/24/its-all-butch-calendar_n_4324632.html?ref=topbar

Huff Post article and link to 2014 calendar.

Oh my! The last one made my legs turn to jelly...:blush:

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://fashionista.com/images/androgynous%20anna%202.jpg


http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/6e/b1/01/6eb101933a5c03cbb3d5741e235eb33a.jpg

[Girl_On_Fire]

Don't know if art can be included in this thread but this is a piece done by an artist friend of mine who painted it as a book cover for a short story I wrote a few years back.

Anyway, I love it and wanted to share:

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/contactethereal/veritasbyerickabaque_zps8027bbdb.jpg

[Nat]

65uJ_dVW1eo

[Jhenay]

Wow... great thread! Oh my! New favorite.

There's a pic on an a page of one of the dating sites, that just takes my breath away. I saved it to my computer, but I haven't figured out how to upload images yet. I don't want to put in a link because it will probably rotate or change.

Anyway...yum...loving the great pics and videos. :)

[Martina]

'Butch,' Photo Book By Kanithea Powell, Showcases Lesbian Identity (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/14/butch-kanithea-powell_n_4418694.html?ir=Books&ref=topbar)

[Girl_On_Fire]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/img.goldderby.com/images/1383446274_albert-nobbs.jpg

[Paradox]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D00xy9YPVg4/UDKzSTSrKtI/AAAAAAAAPvM/bVdPYj_LJ7Y/s1600/eurythmics-annie.jpeg

Aside from the female Masculinity aspect the image portrays. What I also loved about it was - particularly for that time, it reminded women of the potential to be/do anything.

I know history has many other examples of women rebelling against social norms and this is not to dishonour those who came before.

[Girl_On_Fire]

http://images.thehollywoodgossip.com/iu/t_full/v1364526487/jo-calderone-in-you-and-i-video.png

[fatallyblonde]

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxdzoaRNdo1r5gh2qo1_500.jpg

skyler cooper... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I'd personally rather see real butches here than over-exposed racist white heterosexual celebrities dressing up and emulating the worst of misogynistic male behaviour for attention (ie: lady gaga)

[Girl_On_Fire]

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxdzoaRNdo1r5gh2qo1_500.jpg

skyler cooper... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I'd personally rather see real butches here than over-exposed racist white heterosexual celebrities dressing up and emulating the worst of misogynistic male behaviour for attention (ie: lady gaga)

See, now I see Lady GaGa's alter ego, Jo Calderone, as a progressive way of introducing transgender into mainstream media. People who are not in the GLBT community don't have much awareness/exposure to fluid sexuality and I applaud Lady GaGa for providing exposure. To me, attention-getting isn't a bisexual woman who has obvious different-gender leanings but Katy Perry singing about how she kissed a girl and she liked it when she's never done any such thing. Just my two cents. ;)

[fatallyblonde]

I disagree. Lady Gaga is not a trans man and she is not, by all accounts, bisexual. She has indicated herself she is hetero. A little experimenting with women - which she also has indicated does not satisfy her as relationships with men do - does not a bisexual make.Also "Jo Calderone's" gross, sexist behaviour isn't exactly a glowing recommendation for maleness, whether cis or trans. I think Gaga's entire image and everything she does is false and designed for publicity. She also repeatedly engages in racist behaviour. Having said all that, I'm not on this forum to get into heavy wars about shit to be honest so I'll leave it at that.

[Girl_On_Fire]

I have no idea who this woman is but she's is quite handsome!

http://31.media.tumblr.com/1f8dd8982dc88b9012b89a6e51bf5488/tumblr_mi48ips6Gs1rssrt4o1_500.jpg

[*Anya*]

I have no idea who this woman is but she's is quite handsome!

http://31.media.tumblr.com/1f8dd8982dc88b9012b89a6e51bf5488/tumblr_mi48ips6Gs1rssrt4o1_500.jpg

I'm a woman who models men's clothes. But this isn't about gender
My responsibility is to kids who might feel shame – might be ostracised from society – just for being different

~Casey Legler

theguardian.com, Friday 1 November 2013 11.16 EDT

I am a model. I model men's clothes. The biological roulette made me female. I was the first woman to be signed to the men's board at Ford Models.

I was invited earlier this week to speak at a conference for business executives at a "trend school" – the topic: gender. I declined – not for lack of desire to share my experience, strength and hope in some helpful way. But I was rather offended by the notion of being so removed from reality as to require a school for trends, and repulsed at the blatant attempt to co-opt and commodify culture for business profit over participation and engagement with it. I also knew that there would be no room for me to break the news: this is not about gender.

So, corporate America, this article is for you.

The contemporary cultural landscape supports a larger interpretation than the one we currently have, of female-masculinity and masculine-femininity. To believe otherwise is to be deceived by a myopic view which is influenced by capitalist gain and profit.

The first thing I want to get out of the way is to ask you to look at this list: Gertrude Stein, Greta Garbo, Jenny Shimizu, Tilda Swinton, Jack Halberstam, Stella Tennant, Judith Butler, Erika Linder … it goes on. If you do not know who everyone on the list is, go look them up, your life will be larger for it. You should, after that, realise that this is not a question of "trend". There is a historical tradition you should know about and it is certainly not about gender. It is about being fierce.

The cultural context further supports this wider angled discourse on the acceptance of difference (or lack thereof) beyond the specifics of female-masculinity and masculine-feminity and posits the isolated focus on gender as incorrect. Russia, Edith Windsor and Bethann Hardison are three examples – the first being a terrifying contemporary example of institutionalised homophobia and homogeneity; the second, our own attempt here in the US to de-institutionalise homophobia via gay marriage; and the last being a fashion legend calling into question the enduring racism within fashion. The fashion industry is on its way to being the better for it.

We are only too familiar with the mainstream's difficulty in celebrating difference (when it's not being entirely destructive to it). Corporations and the traditional media have not yet learned how to resolve this: in the public discourse the celebration is often sanitised and white-washed (sometimes literally) for profit – and by this I do mean corporate profit.

And why should you care about this? Because we have in our societies children and teenagers and we are responsible for their wellbeing. This is on us. And why do I specifically care about this? Why am I bothering to write this? Because I'm gay. I'm butch. I'm a woman. I'm queer. I'm 36. I'm 6ft 2in. And caring for "otherness" matters to me. Gay youth is still terrorised for being different in some parts of the world – Russia is a horrifying example of this. But look, too, at what still happens here in the US. Children are made to feel shame, they are made to feel ugly, they are ostracised and bullied, or worse – and here in New York I see them on the streets – 40% of homeless youth are LGBTQI identified.

If images of me out there in the world make it that much easier for another kid, and the kids around them or their parents, to get on with the more important business of figuring out who they are and how they can uniquely contribute to the stream of life, then my job is done. The clincher: while unique in my contribution, I am not alone in expanding the landscape – Brittney Griner, JD Samson, Venus X, A$AP Rocky, OFWGKTA – are all examples of non-conformity and also of excellence.

This is about making space, making room and making things better. To limit this conversation to the (albeit salacious) red herring of gender is dangerous, careless and nothing short of ignorant – it takes for granted the intelligence and wellbeing of our communities (offering only an uneducated, uninteresting and sensationalist conversation to boot). It shames those who are gender-conformative and perpetuates a construct of homogeneity and belonging that is nothing short of destructive for our youth. It offers a false sense of privilege and ignorance to those who "fit" the norm (or trend) while potentially destroying those who don't and ignoring those who are able to survive outside of it.

I will not let this become just the other side to the same coin of oppression, a false emancipation at the cost of others.

This is too important and deserves closer examination and care. Lives depend on it.

[CherylNYC]

I have no idea who this woman is but she's is quite handsome!

http://31.media.tumblr.com/1f8dd8982dc88b9012b89a6e51bf5488/tumblr_mi48ips6Gs1rssrt4o1_500.jpg

She's a self identified female athlete, artist, and fashion model who works as a male model. Yes, she's very handsome.

[silkepus]

I see you're talking about Casey Legler- might if I join;)

https://24.media.tumblr.com/d7f2d68de8118c077d258d1f56c90a6e/tumblr_mrskg4Z8HH1qmx9t5o1_500.jpg


Oh Casey, get out of my dreams and into my bed!

[Kobi]

BUTCH (http://megallenstudio.com/butch/) is a documentary portrait project and exploration of the butch aesthetic, identity and presentation of female masculinity as it stands in 2013.

It is a celebration of those who choose to exist and identify outside of the binary; who still get he’d and she’d differently throughout the day; who get called-out in bathrooms and eyed suspiciously at the airport; who have invented names for themselves as parents because “Mom” nor “Dad” feels quite right; and who will generally expect that stare from the gender police trying to figure out if they are “a boy or a girl”. It is an homage to the bull-daggers and female husbands before me, and to the young studs, gender queers, and bois who continue to bloom into the present.

[dykeumentary]

I see you're talking about Casey Legler- might if I join;)

https://24.media.tumblr.com/d7f2d68de8118c077d258d1f56c90a6e/tumblr_mrskg4Z8HH1qmx9t5o1_500.jpg


Oh Casey, get out of my dreams and into my bed!

Why so serious, Casey???

[silkepus]

BUTCH (http://megallenstudio.com/butch/) is a documentary portrait project and exploration of the butch aesthetic, identity and presentation of female masculinity as it stands in 2013.

It is a celebration of those who choose to exist and identify outside of the binary; who still get he’d and she’d differently throughout the day; who get called-out in bathrooms and eyed suspiciously at the airport; who have invented names for themselves as parents because “Mom” nor “Dad” feels quite right; and who will generally expect that stare from the gender police trying to figure out if they are “a boy or a girl”. It is an homage to the bull-daggers and female husbands before me, and to the young studs, gender queers, and bois who continue to bloom into the present.

Oh I can die happy now. So many handsome butches!

Why so serious, Casey???

I know right? Nothing is sexier than a smiling happy butch:

https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdsrsxQTAk1r584fqo1_500.jpg

:D yay butches!

[okieblu]

Since some of the femmes here had been asking for photos of older butches, I went looking for them. I know I've seen a few more like me-over 50-but except for one or two, I can't find them at the moment.

So, here is what I did find. Including one or two personal heroes. All of these are over 35, some older than that and a few are older photos from the 1940's/1950's or earlier. So at least you are getting older generation butches.

1)Well fuck. Maybe I wont. The photos are on my computer and this thing wants only a url. Is there a way around that?

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/85/a5/71/85a5710ac05ad49a88b2dafd062af814.jpg

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/rachel-maddow-320-150x112.jpg

[DapperButch]

http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/rachel-maddow-320-150x112.jpg

So glad Rachel decided to be herself!

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

http://www.triviavoices.com/uploads/3/3/1/7/3317142/4283245.jpg

RIP

[okieblu]

Okay, trying this the approved way. JackHalberstam-academic and author of 'Female Masculinity'.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj32fgO6jo1qfyz6x.jpg

[okieblu]

From a spiffy calendar done a few years back by a Brooklyn non-profit, to benefit a local queer youth shelter. Remakes of old dyke paperback covers, using local queers. These two are a for-reals couple, raising a family together.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/65/d6/0b/65d60b8c0e32929687206038257a147d.jpg

[okieblu]

Artist Eva Weiss. 'The Kiss-Butch Femme' This has been published several times in different books. If anyone has a website for her, PLEASE post the link, will you? Damned good photographer, one of my favorites.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5065/5590241500_dc138bf488.jpg

[okieblu]

Butch femme couple at Mona's, an old dyke/queer bar. I think it was in NYC, but I'd have to look it up. Taken sometime in the 1950's.

https://tarotreading.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/two-women-in-monas.jpg

[silkepus]

Okieblu I'm in love with all your images! They're amazing, I hope you have many more:)

[okieblu]

This is a still from a documentary, 'A Persistent Desire'. I think it said photographer is Lenn Keller. Very handsome older butch femme couple. Yes, I know most of these are of couples. Sorry.

Oh, just follow this back to the website for info on the doc.

http://www.apersistentdesire.com/images/mmidget28.jpg

[okieblu]

Okieblu I'm in love with all your images! They're amazing, I hope you have many more:)

Thanks! I was a little worried that I was over-doing it. Very glad you are enjoying the show!
Leigh

[okieblu]

Okay just found this one online. I'd never seen this one before. I think it's from the 1960's.
The website apparently is a collection of essays. I'm going to check it out myself eventually. In the meantime, here is the site if you want to look the essays up yourself. sitemaker dot umich dot edu forward slash lesbianhistories forward slash Hopefully that will get you to the right spot.

And the photo...
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lesbianhistories/image_gallery/da.data/0000c0a8de10000007d3270a0000014172f55607330faf66/Image/kris03.jpg

[okieblu]

Okay, gonna post a couple of photos here of Leslie Feinberg, a personal hero of mine.
This is a still from the documentary 'Outlaw' which you will only see if you can catch it as a film festival. No folks, it's not for sale to individuals. More's the pity.

http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/photos/c214.JPG

[okieblu]

And another one, a little older. I think this was taken for an interview hy did with a university paper-I think.

http://www.bcholmes.org/images/tg/leslie.jpg

[okieblu]

British painter-and out butch-Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein 1895-1978). Going to do a couple of Gluck, also. Check hym out, he was a very good painter.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly0aqm28vD1qd76lk.jpg

[okieblu]

And Gluck again, I think a little younger than the first one. See, y'all, butch dandys are NOT a new invention.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldbsdulooN1qfwgt1o1_400.jpg

[okieblu]

And Gluck again, older, here shown painting. Wish I knew what year this was taken.
http://jewishcurrents.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/gluck.jpg

[okieblu]

I think that's it for now. I really need to go take care of a bunch of stuff I shoved to the back burner, so to speak, to do this instead.
Bye!

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/Lil_uk/Mauresmo.jpg


THE best one handed backhand....EVER






http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/125.jpg

[silkepus]

http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/125.jpg

I need to get one of those:p
.....................

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/joan-of-arc21.jpg








http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/125.jpg

[ProfPacker]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/photographing-the-butch-women-of-san-francisco

[DapperButch]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/photographing-the-butch-women-of-san-francisco

Fantastic photos. Those butches have some kick ass hair styles! Thanks for posting.

[okieblu]

And I'm really impressed, not just by the quality of her photographs, but also by the fact that she's familiar with at least SOME 1st generation lesbian photographers. VERY cool. Tee Corrine the community lost in, I think it was 2004?-from cancer. Gone too soon. Honey Lee is still around, still taking photos and still wont show them outside the SF community. Or, sometimes, her fb page, though those are rare and not the same kind of sex radical work she used to do.

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/b24d4ad2a0283f9ab7e052c23d9ec6de/tumblr_n39c2adFo21qarjnpo1_1280.jpg