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Originally Posted by BullDog
Chris, my fellow geek, you know I will always back you up! Yes, I compared the meta keywords for BFP and another butch femme site. Butch woman and femme woman are listed for BFP, not the other site. The other site does list masculine identified butches as one of their keywords, no other qualifiers for butch.
Keywords are how people find things on the internet, so yes it makes a big difference. It also makes a big difference to me to see the effort of inclusiveness being put forth by the owners, Admins and moderators of this website.
One of the several things that has really irritated me about this conversation is this casting into doubt whether Christine Marinoni is a woman or not. All it takes is a 30 second Google search to find out. I notice no one was questioning whether Cynthia Nixon was a woman or not.
Anyway this what Cynthia had to say in an interview a few years ago:
"In terms of my sexual orientation, I don't really feel that I changed," she says. "I don't feel any different than I did before. I don't feel like there was some hidden part of myself that I wasn't aware of.
"I had been with men all my life and I had never met a woman I had fallen in love with before. But when I did it didn't seem so strange.
"I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...#ixzz0njPIPyhC
They're both women. They are partners. They are raising their children. One of them has a masculine appearance and wears male clothing. She's a woman. |
Im SO glad you found these quotes Bully!
This is kinda the crux of what I was arguing earlier.
Self-Identity.
These quotes refer to Cynthia Nixon identifying her partner as a woman. She has also (now in the article we are discussing) identified her partner as "basically a man with boobs".
I haven't seen anything where her *partner* self-identified. (although I will totally concede that it is highly unlikely that her partner identifies herseld as a "man with boobs")
And don't get me wrong Bully, I *do* get what you are saying and love that we are all kinda teasing this thing out together.
This conversation IS important, even if we only reiterate to one another how we want to be seen and discussed within the context of this community.
I think that's valuable.