[SleepyButch]

Originally Posted by Clio

Hi! My name is Clio.

Been reading for a while and just checking things out.

Haven't jumped in just yet but am enjoying the tons of interesting threads.

Hope everyone is having an awesome day!

Howdy Clio and welcome to the planet! Looks like you finally jumped in a little. Glad you are enjoying the threads. We hope you will start posting in them soon!

Originally Posted by Sistermarypeaceandjustice

I'm a woman in midlife (wow I never wrote that before) tried and failed to be lesbian in the 80s. I think the problem was the lack of butches around me. In those days the message was that butch femme was patriarchal. I thought I couldn't be lesbian because I couldn't make myself be attracted to feminine women.it never occurred to me that I was only attracted to androgynous people and that that is ok. Then I got in a relationship with a man who was on the feminine side. Being bi in those days was also terribly uncool. Traitorous almost. So I felt I couldn't be part of the Gay Lesbian community (bi and trans and queer hadn't been added yet )although I looked on wistfully.
Fast forward 25 years I'm divorced (the guy I was married to had become a bully) and I find I only want to be with butch women ( and MTFs are so freaking attractive).
So I think the prejudice against b-f lesbians and trans people from 1980s feminism certainly didn't help me.
I had to wait until I was a middle age woman to understand who I am.

Hello sister Mary! Glad you found us here at the planet. Glad you finally were able to figure out who you are. Some of us get it right away and some of us it takes awhile. I'm a firm believer that things happen when they are supposed to happen. Call me corny or whatever but I believe it to be so. Really, who could blame you for being attracted to Butches??? Not I. lol
Anyway, hope you have a lot of fun here!

Originally Posted by Sunshine

Hello everyone and thank you Linus,

I have lived in Los Angeles, California for 33 years now. I am 48 years young. I was born in Lebanon as a Maronite but I have become an atheist with time. I am easily excited by honesty, it seems to be a rare trait to find for me anyways. My hobbies are a very wide range of cooking, baking, fixing and building things, working on my car and working out. I am more of a thinker than a talker and I am very shy which is why it has taken me some time to introduce myself. A friend shared this site with me. I really love this site because of the bond and honest between everyone. I really have come to appreciate this site, it is very unique. I look forward to getting to know you all.

Thank you.

Welcome to the planet Sunshine. I know what you mean about the shy thing. The beauty of this site is that you can get to know people through words first so hopefully you will be more comfortable sharing with them/us. We have a lot of folks around here from California so I'm sure you'll even meet some locals. Enjoy!

Originally Posted by PanDragon

Wow, I don't even know how to post to introduce myself! So this is a test! Haha!

Hello PanDragon! Looks like you sort of introduced yourself by posting. The test worked! Welcome to the site and have a lot of fun!