"Butch" and "Femme" - Truly Antiquated Terms or More Marginalization?

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Originally Posted by dreadgeek

Actually, that is very clear and a point I would absolutely agree with. If you are with someone who identifies themselves as a straight man (whatever their chromosomal pattern is) then I would wholeheartedly agree that to say that this met the definition of 'lesbian' would be to stretch the word beyond recognition. I can certainly see how one would NOT use the term 'lesbian' in that case. My wife doesn't use the term 'lesbian' because she identifies as a bisexual-dyke (which, as I understand it to mean) that she is affectionately attracted to women but if I were to disappear out of her life and it was a lonely Saturday night and she needed a little 'sumthin-sumthin' and the right guy was around she would have sex with him. But if she were looking for another serious relationship it would be with another butch woman (or possibly transman).

So that makes perfect sense to me. I'm curious, would you then say that you are homosexual or bisexual?

And thank you for your patience, semiotics is completely out of my academic venue (which is computational biology/biomedical informatics) so I may be completely oversimplifying language.

Cheers
Aj

THANKYOU!!!

i've been holding my breath! i'm really tiptoeing around right now feeling like a bad academic and a bad femme and a bad person and boo-hoo-hoo-poor Kathlene-boo-hoo-hoo (PLEASE read that last bit as sarcastic!)