The Re-Definition of the Modern Butch

BullDog · 12-27-2009, 02:24 PM

Great thread Metro, I hope to contribute more later. Just wanted to say your latest post hits home for me. I find myself less and less relating to online butch femme circles. However, I don't have that same problem with real time friends and local social gatherings of bf peeps. The two worlds are quite different.

AtLast · 02-01-2010, 03:17 AM

Going to come in everyday to read posts. I feel this thread can be of great value and not age specific at all. For me, there have been so many varied mixes of butch within. A multi-dimensional core of sorts that goes far beyond so much of traditional definitions of butch and for me, female masculinity.

Sometimes, I am deeply frustrated with what I too, see as limiting, narrow and constraining with butch identity. I have met (or am friends with) several butches (ranging from female-identified through TG and IG, Trans-masuline and those that left butch and our dynamic behind as FtM's) that just can't remain on B-F sites for the reasons Metro brings up. Yet, I cannot stay away even when I also feel limitations and constraints. Odd, actually, as personally, I am pretty much just a butch. Ah, so what does that really mean?

Anyway, I want to simply read what others think and feel for now in the thread.

12-27-2009, 02:24 PM	#1
BullDog Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Dominant Stone Butch Daddy Preferred Pronoun?: She Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: In A Healing Place Posts: 5,371 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,160 Thanked 22,640 Times in 4,463 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Great thread Metro, I hope to contribute more later. Just wanted to say your latest post hits home for me. I find myself less and less relating to online butch femme circles. However, I don't have that same problem with real time friends and local social gatherings of bf peeps. The two worlds are quite different. __________________ Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke

02-01-2010, 03:17 AM	#2
AtLast Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Woman Preferred Pronoun?: HER - SHE Relationship Status: Relating Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: CA & AZ I'm a Snowbird Posts: 5,408 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,826 Thanked 10,827 Times in 3,199 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	Going to come in everyday to read posts. I feel this thread can be of great value and not age specific at all. For me, there have been so many varied mixes of butch within. A multi-dimensional core of sorts that goes far beyond so much of traditional definitions of butch and for me, female masculinity. Sometimes, I am deeply frustrated with what I too, see as limiting, narrow and constraining with butch identity. I have met (or am friends with) several butches (ranging from female-identified through TG and IG, Trans-masuline and those that left butch and our dynamic behind as FtM's) that just can't remain on B-F sites for the reasons Metro brings up. Yet, I cannot stay away even when I also feel limitations and constraints. Odd, actually, as personally, I am pretty much just a butch. Ah, so what does that really mean? Anyway, I want to simply read what others think and feel for now in the thread.