June Cleaver : Femme Friend or Femme Foe

[Martina]

Originally Posted by aishah

to me, being femme is largely about interpreting femininity in ways that are queer and subversive.

It is not to me. My femininity is really very like my mother's. I actually do feel that it connects me to straight women in many ways, and I celebrate that. I actually think it's dangerous to repudiate that. But that's another thread. (I actually wrote a paper on this, which I presented to a bored crowd at the first femme conference. It's a pet peeve of mine.)