hey shoutout to butches who dont preform masculinity in the “ok and safe” range. shoutout to butches who are large and intimidating and hairy and loud and dont represent the weird watered down butchness that the media loves to showcase.
a specific form of antimasculism in which butchness is ok as long as its a safe form of masculinity that doesnt threaten anyones perception of gender presentation. people are fine with butches as long as its a skinny white lesbian with a pixie cut, but fat black butches get shoved under the bus and labeled “threatening”. as a butch trans man, who is perceived as a butch woman in feminist spaces, im allowed to present however i want as long as my masculinity is always in an androgynous, female-type masculinity. if i dont, then i am labeled the threat or the bad type of masculine and no longer get access to “safe spaces” for presenting butchness wrong. butchness is ok as long as the person presenting it isnt too strongly masculine, and even within gnc spaces masculinity is villainized if its not done in a queer, pseudo progressive way. neoliberal spaces hate stereotypes of butches so much they’ll attack anyone who fits into a stereotype.
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