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I think it's icky to behave as though she said that "All Butches are basically short men with boobs! BOOOOOOOOOOBS! MENNNNN! BOOOOOOBS!"
And for the record - none of us know how this person self-identifies. There's nothing to indicate that Nixon's lovah identifies as a Butch. Nixon referred to her "butchness" but that's not the same thing - I'm sure we all know that. Plus, further on in the article Nixon did reject the notion that they were in a Butch+Femme relationship. I bet you'll all be real upset to hear that I tend to refer to my spouse as "the short hair" and myself as "the long hair". OMG I have oppressed us all!
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I find it interesting that in this instance, many are so willing to shrug and say, "well, who knows? Maybe that's how she identifies, that's all that matters, etc." Why is that all that matters? That is NOT something we would say if the comment was in reference to someone's ethnicity or ability, for example. You wouldn't refer to someone as a "crip," or "white trash" even if they refer to themselves that way. The exact point I am making here is that we tolerate comments like this about women, shrug them off, make it a personal thing, instead of having a community standard that says it's not okay to refer to butches as "men with boobs."
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The hue and cry would be different if it were about femmes or trans men or male identified butches.
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I wonder if that is what goes through peoples mind after they've called my Beloved *Sir* and THEN noticed hys boobs? Either way, you can always see that moment of recognition....
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LOL, I've never heard of a butch describing themselves as a short man with boobs. Is this a new gender identity?
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She is saying that HER butch is... not that all butches are... There is a difference... It's just as wrong trying to force your (general your's, not your's personaly) ID on someone as it is to try to says that all are something because one is...
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I agree that any reference to transmen or male-ided queers and BOOBS would immediately be seen as disrespectful, rather than shrugged off or justified. But the reference wouldn't get made as easily because of the privleging of male identity. It's specifically women, in this instance masculine women, that are supposed to suck it up and just have a sense of humor about any reference to BOOBS. Even in context, I find Nixon's statement utterly objectifying and basically stupid. |
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You've never heard a butch refer to his/her/hys/whatever breasts as "man boobs"? Really? Because I have. I'm actually pretty sure that my own spouse has said that.
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You are completely missing my point. The only thing I am trying to force, and will continue to try and force, is recognition that women exist along a diverse spectrum of gender and sexual identities, all the way from ultra-feminine to ultra-masculine, and that being ultra-masculine does NOT make one male anymore than being ultra-feminine makes one straight. Does that expalin it better?? |
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maybe she's not missing it, just disagreeing with it. which is allowed.
My guess, is its something Cynthia and Christine joke about - Christine "compared to your sex and the city girlfriends I look like a short guy with boobs" and they laugh it off. Cynthia said it in the Advocate, probably among a zillion other things they didn't even print - and huffington post and ny post and whoever else, took the most quotable, (perhaps unfortunate) line and used it as a teaser. now we're beating it into the ground. (me too of course, but just cause my boss is off today :>) |
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Nixon's comment leads me to make this point (as I did above): women exist along a diverse spectrum of gender and sexual identities, all the way from ultra-feminine to ultra-masculine. Being ultra-masculine does NOT make one a man anymore than being ultra-feminine makes one straight. That, in a nutshell, is my point. Heart |
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Lol.. this is just one subject we don't agree upon... Because I belive that there are more ways to id... more diversity on the spectrum of gender and sexual identities that there are words to describe them... and a couple of ways that ultra masculine people ID is male and ultra feminine ID is straight.. For SOME People those are truths... Nothing is true of everyone... And for me... Those people who do fall into the *Tradidional Sterotypes* have just as much voice/rights to ID as THEY ID as those who don't fall into the traditional... For me... Not one way is better.... the entire range is right for those who feel it is right for them... If you are a femaled id'd butch.. yea.. if you are male id'd... yea... if you are a high femme who id's a a straight mother and wife... yea.. if you are a femme dyke (me!) who loves her doc's as much as her stillettos and wants to bring her butch dinner while wearing a apron over her camo's... Yea... There is a place for all of us... We might not fit every where.. with everyone.. but there is room for all of us...
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When someone makes a public comment that many would construe as transphobic- that's what it's called- transphobic. People don't bend their ass over backwards trying to find something clever or cute about it.
What is said or shared between a couple in private is between them.
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So, she's not allowed to be referred to by her partner (someone who obviously knows her as they live together, and they're raising children together) as a 'man with boobs', but she IS allowed to be referred to by complete strangers on the internet as 'a butch' (which she may not ID with at all, and being that her partner has pretty much stated they don't ID as a butch/femme couple, we can infer that she doesn't ID as a butch)
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Heart's comment is really the uh, heart of the issue. Regardless of whether one doesn't mind being called a 'short man with boobs', the larger concern is the language (and through it, the thought) that engenders the ongoing belittlement of of masculine WOMEN, because, ya know, it's all RELATIVE to the individual and their own identity. One's own identity is never (or should never be) the paramount concern in any 'community'. The idea of a community itself implies that its larger than any one individual. As long as we, as a community, continue to use (or condone) language that has the essential power to demean others because we're afraid of being 'judgemental' or similar happy horseshit, we demean the entire community, and consequently, ourselves. |
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Hey Heart,
Hope it's ok to tease this out a little more. I also believe that women exist on a gender spectrum that is as diverse as it is prolific. Im wondering if, in the article, Cynthia had referred to her partner as "Trans" if the "man with boobs" comment would mean something different to you? What if her partner comes out as Trans in a few days? Would that feel any different when trying to name something on our gender spectrum that may exist in a completely different capacity on someone else's? Because to me, it does make a difference how that person identifies, if the comment was ok for their way of being or if it was an insensitive, erasing snip. I was sitting here kinda thinking over a couple of the conversations I have had with some of my Trans Male friends and how a couple have actually talked about feeling like a "man with boobs" until they were able to have the surgery to make their body fit more in-line with what they felt their identity called for. I was also thinking about the negative comments on this particular article and how it saddens me so deeply that our entire spectrum of Queerness is so often fetishized and/or treated as a voyeur-circus for mouth-breathing idiots. More thoughts..
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