This controversy came up around the Butch Voices conference in 2010 (I think). I wasn't there and did not participate. I just read about it afterwards. I read some of the talk about it here, but did not find the thread.
Anyway, a defense of the term was recently quoted in the Race and Racism thread. I responded for a couple of reasons, but one was that there was no mention of the butch women who have taken issue with the term.
I will point out that I do not know the people from Butch Voices or the people who have criticized the term.
I do not like the term -- MoC. I hope it is not gaining currency. I do think there are some advantages to it. One that was mentioned in the article posted in the Race thread is that it includes men, cis-men, and therefore is a way of building alliances with them.
Here is an article from one of the critics of the term -- part of the BV controversy --
http://butchenough.wordpress.com/201...pe-not-a-line/
A quote from that
And the criticism that the blog article quoted in the Race thread was responding to --
The very smart defense of it on terms relating to race -- is here --
http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/foru...040#post730040
My response is the next post. I am sure there are a number of other articles out and about.
Anyway, those who know, is MoC becoming a more used term? Who is adopting it? Do you like it? Would you adopt it? Is the term just more inclusive -- like queer -- or meant/experienced as a rejection or replacement of other terms? If the latter, why?
If you are femme or otherwise don't ID as someone who might be included in MoC, what are your thoughts?
I do not want this thread to privilege the response of any person, regardless of gender or other ID. That might seem wrong too those whose ID is MoC or butch, trans or ? but that's the way I'd prefer this thread to go.