I woke up still thinking of this thread and wanted to add a femme stereotyped viewpoint here. I have never felt like I fit in as "one of the girls". Nails and hair and girl talk are very cute to be included on.... but I dont enjoy it like they do. I am perving and admiring them ... and that is an invasion of some sorts. PJ parties and pillow fights dont include the boy who likes you...
And it is the same deal for me out with the butch stereotypes. I am into cars and camping and things stereotyped butch .... but when I am sitting there "with the guy talk" I am still a freaking perv!!! They dont swap the same conversations with the femmes around you know.... unless someone wants slapped for being too crude.... All Stereotypes I know BUT....
These stereotyped activities that associate with bonding and hanging out are similar to how the hetero couples do dinner parties... men with cigars and politics drinking scotch in the den... and the women with the cupcakes and gossip in the kitchen. Where the heck do I belong? I never really did so... apply this to the butch femme dynamic that is STEREOTYPED and well you see my old confusion right?
I know femmes rock the power tools, smoke cigars and talk politics. I know butches who hug and support and bake cupcakes. I know PEOPLE who are a variety of mixes of social activities and that none are GENDERED in our world...
I am just somewhere between here and there of figuring out ME and why I feel I found "home" amidst specifically a Butch/Femme associated community. Its about More than the confusion that led me to find y'all when I met the butch woman I fell in love with....( I thought butch dont go with butch then and was out of sorts with it but felt how I felt for her so I went searching and found community...) It's about even More then the Label given to me... More than the butch or femme dynamic itself because I feel a lil kindred to the gay boy as well as to the FTM's and MTF's. Every person representing their own unique gender and orientation combinations is CONFIRMING to me that
I am ok to be me and theres not a dang thing wrong with any of us. Yes I am still a baby taking baby steps.... but who better than to take them with huh?