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Bumping this thread!
 

Why? My favorite subject!

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Stoney lips...lol


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No more bare feet shots after my accident nearly 4yrs ago.

Lipless Wonder
 

I can not submit a picture as I don't have any lips. I am like a Mr Potato Head. I can't even draw any on. My feet have more lips than my face.

Ok so I'm here at the hospital with a dear friend. Her appearance is that of a heteronormative woman. My appearance is that of a gender non-conforming butch woman. Here are my thoughts for discussion:

Isn't it interesting that her "straight appearance" (she is straight) never is enough to make anyone think that i am straight too? Why do I magically lesbianize whomever I'm walking next to?

When the staff refer to her as my partner, do i say "We are not a couple. Lesbians can have straight friends." Or should I let people practice what it's like to be around people they perceive as gay?

Also: Hospital gowns are non-gendered garments. How is it that she looks so different then I do when I've had to wear them recently? Amazing. She looks good!

I am extremely tempted to say something smart arse and sexual as a response. But look how polite I'm getting since I left the UK...

Say it. I dare you.

That sounds like fun. Would you like to magically lezbianize me?

I personally am happy that people don't ever seem to assume I am straight. I am a walking stereotype, lol, but it does suit me. I have been out with straight woman friends where people assumed we were a couple and also femme friends as well.

I think the hospital staff is trying to be considerate of a lesbian couple, even though you aren't one. Much better than kicking you out.

But yes, it is interesting...

Sure, I'd be glad to get out my wand, to show you the ropes.

Wands and ropes. Lezboism sounds very interesting. Do we wear the hospital gowns?
Or is that just one person?

You can wear whatever makes you feel sexy.
My extraordinary lezbonizationary skills will turn anything you've got to my purposes.

*coloured impressed*

Why do you think that happens? I don't get it. But some Femmes I've dated really liked being outed by my appearance.

Also, Medical hospital workers have been very nice to me, about my gender stuff and nice to my various girlfriends.
The psych hospital doctors were less friendly.. My Crazy Boxers

Well, it's nice to be seen. It's a relief. It's less smothering. It can be really depressing at times to be always seen as something you are not. The having to take the deep breath and correct people can be... Awkward at best and gladiatorial at worst. So it's nice to not have to have that conversation, for once, to be seen. Having a butchdyke accessory is something I have occasionally pondered. They make great purses too, with the whole "trousers that have pockets thing." My exwife was a very fashionable purse. She was like Gok Wan.

That film was hilarious/painful. If she was playing a therapist, she did quite well!

Perhaps it was that they were worn over tights with a blanket as a cape?

That's true. If I'm wearing something girly and I'm with a bloke my age they assume we are partners.
If I was with my exwife they assumed she was my son. That used to crack her the fuck up and have me huff off....

If you were male, they would assume you were straight and that you were her husband or boyfriend. You "look like a lesbian", which tells them you date women. Just like if you were male, this makes you romantically attached to your friend.

People don't get that people who could be attracted to each other could just be friends.

You haven't experienced this before?

I find it very logical.

It's weirder than that. Maybe it's NYC but people are near one another all the time. In my experience a gay man walking near a straight man doesn't generate the same assumptions abour the nature of their relationship. And an out non-butch lesbian doesnt confer lesbian status on the people she's walking near.

It is kind of hot in an old-school way- that I'm seen as a butch predator and a person capable of recruiting to a sinful lifestyle. I like it.
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