[BullDog]

There are a number of lesbians here in this community who date and partner with males/male identified people. As far as I know they all identify as women.

Recently there were a couple of cases of men masquerading as lesbians, running online blogs. That really outraged me. To me that is appropriation.

Those two scenarios aren't even remotely the same. I get that there is the danger of appropriation but I don't think that was what anyone was talking about earlier- where lesbian means anything or can be appropriated and that no one cares.

As a butch lesbian I most certainly have felt like a stranger and as a woman identified butch as a child of a lesser god in BF commnities. However, it is also true that this is a mixed gender community and that different gender identities have relationships with both the identity of lesbian as well as real world life experience with lesbian communities.

I am a woman. Yes that's important for me to talk about in the Lesbian Zone, but I am also taking into account the social context of the community here.