Butch ripoff

Though I dont' agree with the femininity thing, because that too is a social construct, and something I've resisted all my life, I'm fully a Butch Dyke and proud..and sorry, but Butch(as it relates to those born bio-female), is a term related to Butch Dykes, the original "genderqueers" so to speak, that is, who go outside of the straitjacketed box men put women into, whether they are straight, bi or Lesbian. Butch is NOT a term for someone who is FTM. The term there is male/masculine/dude what have you. To use our term for those of us born Female living as a different aspect of FEMALENESS, is to coopt our rich Lesbian culture, whether you're Butch on Butch, Butch/Femme, both or all of the above and everything inbetween. No Butch Dyke can compete with FTM's on the scale of 'male appearing'. 

And it's a very, very funny sick little secret, that many, many FTM's these days are really Femme, or feminine in the real sense of the word, and since they can't keep as Butch Dykes or are basically fag hags and male lovers at heart, transition to then seem more 'masculine, male, "butch"' than real, honest to goodness true blue Butch Dykes! 

 STOP ripping off and coopting our cultures, and being on the top Butch 100, because I'm sorry, on that scale, NO FTM belongs on a Butch scale...you have left that scale once you decided to take those hormones and have those surgeries. And especially if now you're fucking gay men. There are many, many FTM's I've seen that have a one down power over relationship with "gay"/bi men, who are the ones running the show, just as if you're a hetero female fucking a straight/bi dude! Bonus holes and all. See, the trans insanity, IS insanity and makes no logical sense anymore. 

Used to be those who could not fit into the Butch Dyke community, were just too male acting, identifying and appearing, quietly transitioned and took their lives up as 'men', and haunted the worlds of bio-men, trying to 'fit in' with them. They didn't pull on Lesbian purse strings, to stay behind and haunt our communities with their maleness, wanting the best of both worlds, your cake and eating it too: when it's convenient, crashing our Dyke/women only spaces, and EXPECTING us to cater to your 'male' asses, and then going and 'passing' in the world of men when it's convenient, selling our women and dyke spaces up the river for queer everything for YOUR selfish convenience. 

 No, the early FTM's were respectful. They saw themselves as dudes, left the Dyke community, and lived their lives as dudes out in the world. But see, you simply haven't the guts to do that for us, instead you coopt our Butch Dyke identities, our women only and Dyke spaces, and attempt to convince any hardcore Butch that she too is more male than female(that Butches aren't really female) by the use of male names, pronouns, hormones and surgeries ultimately, and then invite yourselves to get fucked both by dudes and dykes, exposing us to gay/bi male diseases ect. ect. ect. You are NO ALLIES of True Blue Butch Dykes! You are coopters, just like this Buck is... Go live your life, but don't rip us off! -MasterAmazon

Queering the Great Rite Workshop at Pantheacon

I was disturbed by how she asked all of us our 'genders' or 'sexes' but NOT our identifications, and in that moment I began to see how it's all in the framing. How one frames the question, what choices another gives, how one person limits another by not speaking the words that acknowledge a multitude of existences, how one follows a party line, whether it be religious/spiritual, social, political, sexual or otherwise.

I felt hemmed in by her preconceptions. For her, there was ONE WAY to use the Chalice and the Blade, and I will say that I have never participated in a 'Fucking the Cup' ritual, as a Lesbian Separatist Dianic friend of mine whose been around in the Pagan community says...it always seemed rather distasteful to me, and entirely heterosexist. Nor was an altar cloth set out, candles, or even a meditation on imagining our immense diversity of experiences as Lesbian/Gay/Queer folks, and how we combine our Sexuality and Spirituality together in a Sacred Way.

LESBIAN AND FEMALE SOLIDARITY

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Katie Franklin

‎"We understand that political solidarity between females expressed in sisterhood goes beyond positive recognition of the experiences of women and even shared sympathy for common suffering. Feminist sisterhood is rooted in shared commitment to struggle against patriarchal injustice, no matter the form that injustice takes. Political solidarity between women always undermines sexism and sets the stage for the overthrow of patriarchy." --bell hooks

Made me think of

• Feisty Amazon It's so much deeper than that, so much deeper. It goes to our flesh, our bodies, our biomorphic field of energy we can raise together, our innate FEMALE WILDNESS AND POWER. Not just the way that women have been victimized to come togehter, but the way we can so deeply, magically, and soulfully EMPOWER EACH OTHER TOGETHER, THROUGH RITUAL, SONG, DANCE, MUSIC, MARTIAL ARTS AND ENERGY, INCLUDING SEXUAL ENERGY APPROPIATELY USED!

Listening to Lesbians: Same Sex Attraction is not bigotry

Here it is:

Listening to Lesbians our voices matter

Banning lesbians – same sex attraction is not bigotry

I have avoided writing about this because I know what the reaction can be like and I have seen what happens to women who do speak publicly about this.

I have tried quite hard to discuss various issues WITHOUT addressing this because it is polarising, causes people to stop thinking, and leads to abuse and harassment. Moreover it is difficult to write anything nuanced on this topic without people misinterpreting and wilfully misrepresenting your words. And then there’s the ever-so-trendy hate that rains down on those that state publicly what others keep quiet about.

But I know that not writing about this is being silenced. I have “allowed” myself to be silenced on this just as many other women have, because of potential fallout.

And there is no amount of staying quiet that can keep us safe as lesbians, because there is an attempt from some to redefine the word lesbian to exclude us.

This includes a clear attempt to coercively redraw lesbian women’s sexual boundaries and to silence the lesbians who protest this.

I have no interest in defining and complicating others’ lives* but words have meanings and language matters.

We cannot stay silent while we are told that we are bigots for being lesbian.

To be a lesbian is to be a female who is romantically, emotionally and sexually attracted to other females. This is same-sex attraction.

There are those who argue a different definition of this word.

The debate hinges on

a) whether you think transwomen are women or not**
and
b) whether you think sexuality is attraction on the basis of gender*** or sex

If you think that sexuality is about same SEX attraction, you may have noticed something going on.

Women who say that they are lesbian and ONLY attracted to females are being told they are bigots, and are being abused on this basis.

I don’t care if women are attracted to (and in relationships with) transwomen but what concerns me is the use of the word lesbian to describe that relationship because of the implications for same-sex attracted lesbians. My interest is solely caused by the implications for same-sex attracted lesbians of that language use – this is about the difference between self-affecting acts and other-affecting acts.

There are real consequences if the word lesbian includes transwomen.

When those of us who are same-sex attracted lesbians try to describe ourselves, our relationships or our sexuality, what word are we to use if we cannot use ‘lesbian’? If the word used for some time to describe us, as understood by most people, is no longer representative of us what language are we to use?

More than this, if the word lesbian cannot be used in a context that excludes transwomen then we are even more marginalised. And this is what I see happening, this is what has happened to women I know, what has happened to me.

Lesbians are being told they are bigots, transphobes, transmysogynists and TERFs for considering itACCEPTABLE  for lesbians to be solely attracted to other females.

Originally when this was not such an extreme situation, I was not as concerned, assuming that using the word ‘female’ to specify same-sex attraction would be sufficient and unproblematic.

However, this is now a problem for two reasons. Firstly, any number of transwomen define themselves as female, rendering the qualifier useless in some conversations. But for those who consider the word female to denote biological sex, it is apparently unacceptable to exclude “non-female lesbians”.

In a lesbian group, amongst lesbians, I was told that it is transphobic for lesbians to be solely attracted to females. It is not a sexuality, apparently, it is a bigotry!! This happens repeatedly to lesbians around the world.

Lesbians must be able to name our own reality and we need that word to describe female-to-female same-sex attraction. We have no other word.

For centuries we have been socially sanctioned for our sexuality, we have been closeted, persecuted, abused, correctively raped, and killed, solely on the basis of being lesbian. Compulsory heterosexuality has weighed heavily on us, and we have borne the burden of oppression as women AND as lesbians.

And now we find that, in a lesbian community, being a dyke is suddenly outlawed?

In what way is this not just the continuation of compulsory heterosexuality?

When we are told that not being attracted to someone who was born male****  is immoral, this is exactly the same as being told that we are deviants for attraction to women and non-attraction to men, but it is now clothed in language that frames and proclaims us as oppressive for acknowledging biological facts and our own sexuality.

I see young lesbians confused by this, trying to do the “right” thing. Baby dykes asking if being lesbian CANmean only being attracted to females, trying hard to be inclusive even in their own sexual experiences.

That women are still asking if sexual boundaries are acceptable means that the rape culture which constantly erodes and undermines women’s sexual boundaries and attacks 

FeistyAmazon on 05/07/2015 at 2:19 am

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Love love LOVE this!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!-FeistyAmazon

Rite of Passage

Why should the current rite of passage for a young Butch Dyke be taking
Hormones, binding her breasts severely, flattening them to the world but wounding heart and lungs in the process?

Instead of coming into her youthful powerful fiery Amazonism she is trying to erase the Female from her body, the womonness from her mind, killing her female soul?

Being convinced she must have her breasts shorn from her body like so many strands of hair.

We Butches of the 70s and 80s settled for cutting our hair and wearing it short. It would always grow back...we claimed our Female Power, honored it at Festivals, at play parties, at women's houses, in the Mountains, under the Moons ad Stars with our Wild and Lovely Dyke Sisters!!!

Lesbians were dipped in chocolate, skinny dipped in streams and rivers, lakes and oceans, we danced and drummed our Female Power at bonfires in the woods....we Traveled to distant stars and came back..through an orgasm, a song, a chant, a roar, to the beat of the drum ruling our Wild Female Hearts!!!We KNEW OUR POWER, WITH EACH OTHER!!
Sisters who could see inside our WomonSouls to the depths of our Oceanic Female Selves.....

"Warrior Goddess" my response taken from a post at Medusa Coils

I'm proud to be a Dyke Amazon Warrior/Amazon Witch, and a lifelong martial artist. I combined all these aspects of me to define my spirituality and the spiritual mysteries I teach as an Amazon Warrior/Amazon Witch/Amazon Priestess....I believe the ancient Amazons were the last defenders of the Matriarchy, those peaceloving cultures of the Mother that were being badly trounced by some of the more patriarchal Greek, Roman and other cultures.... As in the martial arts, when I see that energy in the Sacred Female, at least the dieties I personally work with, it is always and primarily IN DEFENSE, and Self-Defense, not in aggression and conquering of other peoples and other ways of being, but protecting ourselves as womyn, our Sacred Mysteries and our Sacred places and Female spaces..... I have never been a pacifist, but neither do I support warmongering either and the support of constant warmaking. This is PRECISELY WHY I'm into Goddess worship and ultimately worship the Goddess of 10,000 Names as She comes in many forms and temperaments, connecting with those that fit for me and that I need in my life and connect best with. The whole concept of a matriarchal peaceloving culture like Catal Huyuk lasting 1000 years without war is amazing to me...and what I long for. But as a Butch Dyke, just to survive, I need to be an AmazonWarrior, a Warrior for women and myself as the type of woman I am, just to survive in a world that would just extinguish my kind. The other side of me is Amazon Priestess, where I serve Her and Her beautiful Planet and womyn and She guides and moves through me...these are deep deep vows I have taken being on this Path of Goddess worship for 30 years, ever since the Dyke Witches brought me out in 1981!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 There is a family connection to her death. Not only do I feel connected to RBG being a Bew York Jew born and raised,my father grew up the same time as her in Brooklyn  and graduated in the same class as her from Cornell. He too, did his post grad at Columbia University.

Like RGB, my Jewish Grandmother broke ground by becoming a School Principal for a public school in Brooklyn, before women were promoted to this position. I came up in NYC Feminism from the influence of strong women around me, from 1969 on, only being 9 years old. I heard the older girls talking about all this. 

Women who believed in themselves, each other and in pursuing their careers and lives, in persisting and not being held back by men or patriarchal institutions and who persevered like RBG did, and my Grandmother, and Shirley Chisolm running for President! Such women were and are a deep inspiration to me!

It enabled me to pursue my Black Belt, and a career in the Trades. The laws Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped pass or supported in her work, enabled us to have our own careers, apartments, credit cards and independence  AS independent Females, without needing male approval or males to sign for us.

I sure hope we can ADD to her legacy and her last wishes that herseat remain empty until after the new President is inaugurated.

Lets visualize her overlooking that seat along with Lilith, that it STAY EMPTY to such time that our new President BIDEN is inaugurated!! SO MOTE IT BE!!!

                 - The feistiest of AMAZONS