03-12-2012, 06:12 AM
			
			
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					Originally Posted by  IslandScout
					 
				 
				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! 
			
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That's because femmes go through this stuff too.  
 
We do.    
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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