Claiming Butch, Not Giving it Up for Gender Abolitionists or Anybody Else

Being primarily Butch on Butch I been vilified for it in the past. However, for me Butchness does NOT automatically mean one is exclusively into Femmes. I do not define my Butchness by what type of womon I have sex with. I enjoy both in different ways.

I define my Butchness by who I have been ALL ALONG, a female who has defied and resisted femininity and stereotyped female roles ALL MY LIFE. I went from Tomboy starting at about age 7 when I rejected dolls, to Butch when I came out at 21.

EVERY true blue Butch I've known WHETHER she's into Butches or Femmes or both, has been a lifelong resister against strait jacketed hetro feminine roles, aka "genda".

She is NOT like the androgyne like the Lesbian sex ads require" just as comfortable in a dress or skirt as pants and a jacket." NO. Distinctly NOT. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US RESISTED. Fought with parents, schools,  peers, workplaces ect to wear the clothes we feel most comfortable in. And to participate in hobbies and careers and interests often designated mostly or primarily for males.

We are not merely androgynous, though we do have both our female and Amazon qualities that help us to feel and be completely comfortable in our comportment.

And then as we put pieces together we realize we are Lesbians with our strong attraction to Females revealed over time.

EVERY Butch I have known has resisted stereotyped female gender roles and expectations from a very young age, choosing to be free, or more in her power, often by adopting men's styles which offer far more greater freedom of movement.

Any woman who claims Butches as automatically anti feminist is really afraid of women who dont follow hetro gender norms and sex stereotypes. We broke outta the mold wayyy before most women have and thusly feared.

Many take on male power or imitate it because there is no other role model, except Amazons. I consider modern day female proud/centered Butches as modern day Amazons and THEY were murdered for THEIR defiance of female sexroles, femininity and claiming independence from men and INSISTENCE LIKE US BUTCHES in being treated equally, and NOT backing down. We do not acquiesce, we do not comply to their needs.

That is precisely why men hate us so and other women fear us.

" Free Speech is Going Down Fast"

My response to that title on a Facebook thread about censorship of Lesbians and Gender critical Feminists:

You dont have to tell me, HERE on Facebook is a hotbed of CONTINUAL CENSORSHIP. BACK UP ALL YOUR WRITINGS. BACK UP YOUR PROFILES.

Many of have gone underground building our Roots, interweaving them, especially after the loss of our Amazonia, our Festival. But WE,STILL HAVE THE LAND. Never give up, never surrender, but BUILD AND NETWORK SISTERS. DO NOT BACK DOWN. Others,are coming to their senses, peak trans.

The tides will change once all the class action lawsuits start rolling in from these mad eugenic doctors, surgeons and psyches, side effects from not just the surgeries and breast binders, but the artificial hormones.

More and more detransitioners everyday.

Continue on, most of all KNOW YOU ARE NOT ALONE. There are many good blogs, 4th Wave Now written by real parents in pain to their children catching the trans contagion, to Gendertrender which a gendercritical Lesbian actively investigates and reports on the latest infuriating trans trend, to my blog DykesforDykes on Blogger to Ruth Barret's anthology Female Erasure to Bonnie Morris' The Disappearing L to our Lesbian Anthology which yours truly opens with a poem.

Sisters you are NOT ALONE!
     -M.A./FeistyAmazon

These words are NEVER INSULTS: LESBIAN FEMINIST DIANIC WITCH

In response to a pal who another tried to insult her by calling her a Lesbian Feminst Dianic Witch for defending WBW space, some of us ARE: 

I NEVER see those terms as insults. Call me a Dyke, an Amazon, Lesbian, Butch, Feminist or Dianic anyday, I will OWN THEM, thus they are NOT insults...but DONT call me a girl or lady, cis queer or terf.

At 57, I am no longer a girl, and being a butch Dyke, I am NOT a lady, nor ever wanted to be..I had THAT taunt "act like a lady" enough in my younger life.

Dianic is my religion, feminist is my philosophy politically and otherwise, putting womyn first, foremost and forever, Lesbianism is my worldview both sexually and spiritually as in: I worship the Sacred Female within and without, sexually, emotionally, intellectually, psychically and spiritually.

EVERYTHING I see through Lesbian eyes, hence for me, all qualities are Female qualities, I have my fiery, watery, airy and Earthy moments, All are part of me and each womon. They are NOT gendered. I lust after and love womyn and my Sacred Yoni, and hers...  -MasterAmazon

Own your body!

The whole idea of having to change one's body is what is oppressive gender is a hierarchy males on top females beneath them and has been so for thousands of years unfortunately changing things with hormones and surgeries is not the answer deep deep self acceptance is to own the body one has and however you express yourself within itIt is the self expression that get censored I know that as a lifelong Butch Dyke who was a young tomboy and I have paid for it in so many different ways.  To see so many young women convinced out of their womanhood to be pressure to take hormones and how surgeries that damage the female bodies and at younger and younger ages even to children nobody knowing really what these hormones do.

 especially to these children and we know  Both artificial estrogen and artificial testosterone   is very unhealthy,  The easier softer way would be to get rid of the of gender  roles altogether and then allow a female or male express themselves any way they want dress any way they want and have access to any profession they want to have access to

 its the limits put upon especially female bodies that is completely oppressive and why so many young girls want to transition to boys it comes down to sexism.

It is horrifying the number of young girls and women who are transitioning worldwide now that is not the answer and at the same time women are being limited in their abilities to have abortion am birth control much less to be lesbian where in so many countries they could be imprisoned and/or put to death so to transition to male means to move into more privilege and to be left alone.

And more and more of these young women as they wake up are de transitioning,  Coming back to their female selves again.

 This eugenics experiment cannot last and is making the pharmaceuticals the surgeons the medical industry in the psychiatric and psychological industries rich thats the bottom line and I won't drink that Kool aid I will support sovereign female space

Be a Sister, Not a Mister Poem by MasterAmazon

Be a Sister, Not a Mister.
Throw your lot in with us, not our oppressors.

We will teach you to love your handsome body,

Your strong and full Butch Breasts
Your sensitive nipples

Your sweet full lips, your smooth skin, your multi orgasmic capacity.

Be a Sister, not a Mister,
We will share with you how to
Embrace your Fierce Amazon Spirit,
Womyn are incredibly strong because Strength does NOT reside in muscles alone. Horses are much stronger than humans, but they can be easily led. You are not a brute or beast of burden, you are so much more..

Be a Sister, not a Mister,
Being a Dyke is one way to fly to freedom from male control.
In the company of fierce and gentle Sisters raising Energy and Magic,
We are nearly Infinite,
Connected with Goddess within and Without, our fierce strong magical Amazonian, healing, passionate, musical, wildly creative untamed Womonly Ways nearly forgotten..unless in the sparking Souls of SisterSelves self sufficient in OUR FREEDOM. WE KNOW THIS. WE LIVED IT FOR 40 YEARS IN OUR OWN SELF MADE AMAZONIA.

Be a Sister, not a Mister, remain with US, keep your fierce Female Self fully intact.

Blessed be, Sister. - By MasterAmazon/F.A.

SF Herstory: Loss of Our Butches and Dyke/Women's Spaces

S.B, we ran with the same folkx in SF. I REMEMBER when the tranny trend hit SF, and OUR Castro community. Handsome handsome Butches I knew who were announcing they were making the switch. It broke my heart and STILL DOES everytime one did. They were no longer my Butch Dyke Sister. Now they identified with and wanted to be a DUDE.

They were doing everything to hide their femaleness which attracted me to them IN THE FIRST PLACE.  Often once they began transitioning,  they became very unkempt in appearance, more aggressive and harsh it attitude with their scraggly little beards.

Some began identifying with and FUCKING Gay men. They talked horrible about Lesbians. They rejected OUR world for the male one, male nouns, pronouns ect and some INSISTEF STILL being allowed into Dyke and Female spaces, corroding it in the process with their new man filled presence and energy.

The faggy ones were like soft dykes with beards, mostly fucking gay guys.  But they werent lije the old fashioned FTMS who thoroughly wanted to be dudes and live MALE lives, who GOT OUT of Lesbian and Female spaces and either went to pansexual or male ones, or moved to another town, married their femme girlfriends, had hysterectomies so they would no longer bleed and went and lived consitently MALE lives
 No talk of "men having babies(ftms) or Lesbians with penises(mtfs)".

But with the whole queerification of that particular in crowd, Butches you and I knew, it destroyed much of the SF Lesbian community, womyn only spaces, bookstores, coffeshops and hot tubs. Our gloroius womyn only play parties too. Disappearance of all our Dyke bars.

I saw first Artemis Cafe bite the dust, then one by one our womens bookstores,  spaces, groups, Brick Hut cafe in the East bay Woman Crafts West an art/craft store of mostly Lesbian craftswomen wares, our Tradeswomen training groups, then begin to accomodate men, Women in Apprenticeship disappear which helped get me in the trades Osento, a Lesbian owned and operated Hot tub place I matronized regularly eventually allowed full transition transwomen in, but THEN FTMS, who claim they are MEN WANTED IN TOO. With their fuzzy beards and breastless chests and heavy body hair due to T.

Summer had enough, and like so many other Lesbian holdouts villified for keeping womens space, WOMENS SPACE, she decided to retire.

You left wayyy before we did in 2014.

We got sick of going to SF because as two Butches, OBVIOUSLY FEMALE, we were starting to be called by male pronouns. This happened mostly in SF. As if the gravest insult to a Butch was considering her FEMALE.

This didnt happen in the more Dyke identified East Bay. I couldnt stand to go to SF and see yet ONE MORE BUTCH I KNEW announce she was making the switch.

It was a trendoid "in" thing with IMMNENSE peer pressure especially amongst the young.

A macho one upmanship.

Not enough to be Butch, even a fierce Butch Leatherdyke.

No you had to pack, regularly, softies not just hard ones for sex or a play party.

Then breast binding became popular, which like a corset can bring real damage to the lungs or heart or ribs over time.

No not enough. Next was going on T, changing ones name to something more male, dress more male appearing, grow a mustache or a scraggly beard till full facial and body hair.

No not enough, next was breast surgery and most stopped there.

Having a big clit/minidick was enough cuz they KNEW the bottom surgery was dangerous, expensive, and would destroy whatever sexual sensation they had.

So most live in this limbo of male appearing on the outside and female underneath.

But like M. said, it became a ghosttown for Butches. We would go to the Castro, no more Butches. 20 somethings with their titties chopped off, myriad gay men and Femmes. All the handsome visible Butches GONE.

Convinced them after all that "You just wanna be a man." And thats EXACTLY what they became.  Sorta.

Injecting the Patriarchy into their body with every drop of T.  Literally.

Self hate at its finest. And all the strong Butch Amazon Lesbian Warriors gone. Transformed to some smoke and mirrors version of macho "manhood".

Fucking fucking SAD. -   MasterAmazon

Respect Goes Two Ways-Guest Post: Miriam Ben Shalom

Response by Miriam Ben-Shalom to Lesbian criticizing Lesbians who no longer support Trans Movement:

Maybe if trans would stop threatening to kill us because we know a male is a male is a male—then and only then—

Maybe if trans would stop forcing themselves into our spaces and give us respect then and only then--

Maybe if people identifying as trans would not try to erase us  --then and only then--

Maybe if the trans community took to task their members who threaten to kill us, main us, use our body parts for nefarious pleasures—then and only then--

Maybe if humans identifying as trans would give us the same respect, civility, and consideration as they want then--- and only then—

Maybe if males identifying as trans would --stop--saying they are Lesbians and stop telling young dykes they are really men and need to transition, then--and only then—

Maybe when the trans community starts working on male pattern violence as opposed to trying to force women to believe and accept their fantasies/fetishes/autogynephilia/narcissism, then--and only then—

Maybe when trans and their allies stop going after children--then. --and only then-- 

Maybe when the trans and their activists realize that women (and children) are entitled to human rights and that their rights do not supersede the rights of women—THEN AND ONLY THEN.

         - Miriam Ben-Shalom