General Butch Appreciation Thread
 

Seen something funny/cute/sexy/insightful about butches? Wanna share but can't find somewhere specific to post it? Was there an excerpt from a tumblr post that made you go "yeah!" while the rest of it made you go "meh"? Did you see an image or meme specific to the butch experience that made you smile, laugh, or think? Random butch-related screenshots rolling around on your phone with nowhere to post them? Send 'em here!

What this is for: images, videos, and text about and for butches, miscellany about butches that doesn't really fit anywhere else (appreciative, not critical), general love found around the web for the butches in our lives
What this is not for: images of butches, personal one or two liners to the effect of "i love butches! so hot" [yes, but that's not the point :p], things unrelated to butches or the butch experience

(I searched and searched and didn't see a thread that quite matched this description, so forgive me if I just missed it.)

I'll start...
 

via ButchWonders

https://i.imgur.com/BDCD57x.jpgperfection

R.I.P...................

Methinks I will appreciate this thread. Thank you!

on a more serious note...
 

Good thread but not all butches id as women. However i understand the appreciation from others is nice.

Oh Lord....people are already not following the rules......(no posting images of butches...'cause another thread for that)

Great thread!

Behold, the best meme EVER:

http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/t...psdq0mbaqk.png






(you can follow the Butchfemmeplanet Instagram for more like this!)

"When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology."

- S. Bear Bergman

I also highly recommend this fun coloring book. Nice to see representation of Butches of all kinds!


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https://amzn.to/2rI6zeH

Great thread idea, Femmadian!
 

https://kisforkiah.wordpress.com/201...ating-a-butch/

https://femmeonamission.com/2011/08/...reciation-day/

“I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so short your fingertips can barely grip it. Girls with shirts that button the other way. Girls that swagger … Girls who get stared at in the ladies’ room, girls who shop in the boys department, girls who live every moment looking like they weren’t supposed to. Girls with hands that touch me like they have been exploring my body their entire lives … It is the girls that get called sir every day who make me catch my breath, the girls with strong jaws who buckle my knees, the girls who are a different gender who make me want to lay down for them.” — Tristan Taormino

I may or may not have, as well.

I have no idea what I am going to do with it. :|

But, it seemed important to buy.

Loving all the posts so far, everyone! Great stuff!

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/09/e2/3a/0...0bf21cd443.jpg

:heartbeat:

Something a little lighter...
 

"She brought me crotchless panties and untied the bows like I was a present that had been wrapped just for her, and before I melted into mindless throbbing waves of orgasm I had a political epiphany: Women who decried being objectified had never had the opportunity to feel like this."

Carol Queen, "Why I Love Butch Women"

One of my favourites
 

"I was a baby butch who had never heard the word and so didn't know what to call myself until I first heard that word out loud in 1992 in the back stacks of Little Sister's bookstore. I wore second-hand army boots three sizes too big and cut my own hair with clippers and met what I didn't know at the time was my first femme lover and bought my first necktie and she called me handsome and that one word handsome made up for two decades of knowing I was never really all that pretty."

Ivan Coyote, "Tomboy Survival Guide"

I don't suppose details are forthcoming...

Ah c'mon not all comments can be taken as a direct compliment to all butches.

Loving this thread but respect must be deserved, it's not a given for all.

Runner I think this comment is very mean spirited.

This is the `General Butch Appreciation` thread so yes I do believe posts can be taken and are indeed meant to be taken as a compliment to all Butches, so long as the Butch reading it feels it fits comfortably with their own particular brand/fit of being on the Butch spectrum.

I give due respect to people until they prove they are not worthy of it. Given your comment I would say on this topic you would fall into that category.

I fall to see why you take issue with someone who is gracious enough to thank some of the posts on here.

Please fell free to DM if you wish to discuss this further as I do not want to derail this thread.

Daisy.

An very favorite quote by S. Bear Bergman
 

Indeed.

I'm not sure where the whole "earning respect" comment came from, but I think such sentiments are unnecessary and do not add to the overall aim of the thread.

For clarification purposes, I started this thread as a way to show a general appreciation for all butches (yes, all) and to have a place to inject a bit of butch/femme specificity and also positivity into this space. If someone sees themselves or a loved one in one of the posts, that's great! That's what it's here for. If not, no problem, but if that's the case, then there are other threads to choose from. I do not appreciate the snark directed at other thread participants.

If we could keep things on topic and not make it personal, that would be lovely.

Thanks! :)

From: Butch Is a Noun (author: S. Bear Bergman)
 

Back on topic!
 

I believe this is from Carol A. Queen's "Strangers at Home". Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. :)

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/17/af/78/1...2824124c71.jpg

Love you, changelings. 💗

A bit of levity!
 

From: Stone Butch Blues (Leslie Feinberg)
 

You say ALL butches but so far have not seen one post about male ided butches! Its been about the female aspect ever since the thread started.

Perhaps you should take it upon yourself to post one, JDeere.

Butches are like ice cream. We come in all flavors.

JDeere,

This is the second post you've made in this thread to this effect. You haven't actually posted anything yourself, nor (from what I can see) have you even so much as thanked any of the other contributing posters in this conversation for what they've brought to the table. So far, all I've seen you do is criticize.

But... not all criticism is without merit.

So I went back and counted all of the posts so far in this thread that were of butch-appreciating content to actually check your claim, as I like to think of myself as a fair minded person and wanted to see how the numbers shook out.

Literally half of the posts don't even mention a gender. Half. A whole 11 out of the 22 posts so far do not mention feminine pronouns or refer to a butch as specifically a woman.

Furthermore, several of the quotes here are by rather well known trans and non-binary butches. Ivan Coyote identifies as trans and non-binary. S. Bear Bergman is an out and proud trans man married to another out and proud trans man. And Leslie Feinberg... well, there shouldn't even be a need for an introduction.

If you cannot see that this thread is on the whole inclusive of butches of all stripes, then I don't know what to tell you.

So, if you still cannot see your particular flavour of butch represented here, that's not my or anyone else's problem. You either need to post something productive in keeping with the original guidelines of the thread which does represent what you want to see, or you need to stop derailing it.

If you are so aggrieved to see people expressing appreciation for butches which aren't 100% exactly like yourself and if you're not going to further this thread, then, frankly, I would respectfully ask you to bow out.

I'm not going to discuss this again.

Saw this bouncing around on Tumblr
 

https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/49/fc/49/...94c49c0de1.jpg
Made ya look.
:D