I am certainly not butch but what makes a butch to me is simple..
If someone says "I'm butch", then, they are butch. Period. Nothing else matters. If you stand in front of me with high heels on and beehive hair and say you are a butch, in my eyes, you are a butch.
Self IDs have become so important in my life over the years of learning and listening. If someone says they are male...they are male. If someone IDs as femme, they are femme.
We have the right to be whatever we want to be. And on top of this, it can evolve and grow and change. It is really beautiful to me.
It's simple really, or at least it is how i see it.
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~ I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~
Maya Angelou
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