Butches and Body Image - Let's Talk About It

[Ginger]

What an interesting thread, in content of course, but also in that so many femmes are responding to it!

It triggered a memory of a butch I knew a long time ago. She was a young, thin person, and talked about feeling pressure to put on weight! Big butch women teased her for not being "butch" enough, because she was small.

I realized then that oppression around body image was not limited to the cultural pressure on feminine women, to be thin!