03-08-2010, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Metropolis
Truth.
Unfortunately what it seems like to me from what I hear on the streets is Female ID'd butches are less likely to invest in spaces that seem to rate butch- ness (often) based on a binary spectrum where openly IDing as a female or women often automatically ends up relegated to the lesser end (being stereotyped). Some peeps just want to chill not feel on the defensive. Doesn't seem it's is a matter of not willing to fight the fight, or lack of numbers, most people just don't hang out if they don't feel supported or feel thought of as less than, it's that simple.
That needs to be changed.
I don't think it's the greater community in the "doing", just that it's less called out... seems like they say the answer is sometimes in the silence.
And then some of us are bull headed, but get tired too.
Ok, I have to run, wood to chop... going to be a cooler week.
Metro
(edited to add : Oh and Jack, it's cedar... 
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No truer words were spoken.
And the Silence... it's telling.
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