this may be a stream of consciousness share but I'm going to talk about how all women that is all bio female women have gender dysphoria. everyone of us is taught at a young age about our bodies and female acceptability meaning femininity. I never conform to feminine roles wHether as a child or adult except when I was very young because they dressed me that way and I didn't know any better.
at age 7 I rejected dolls. I prefered playing with my brother's toys and his men. eventually I got some men of my own and a best friend once bought me a Barbie. I kind of hated that Barbie because that's not the kind of girl I was I was a hardcore tomboy.
part of being a tomboy was that I wanted freedom in my movements and I wanted to be treated equally to the boys and respected by them there many times I had to prove where other I was a boy or girl because I didn't want to be a girl I didn't want to do household chores or be limited to the domestic sphere or to wear dresses or skirts I rejected dresses at age 10. meanwhile my family did not approve of this and kept trying to feminize me. in school I was taught we were supposed to be proper young ladies worried about our hygiene and hair and dressing appropriately that is femininely. and acting feminine that is not running around as a hardcore tomboy competing with boys climbing trees bicycle bicycle riding exploring alleyways and going on adventures with other boys because the girls were too timid to do this.
I remember playing with Orthodox boys who wanted to ride my bicycle because they didn't have one and I would let them ride it for short periods of time but I never ever saw their sisters they had little curls in their hair the little side curls. their sisters I'm sure are not permitted to go outside and expected to stay in the domestic sphere I felt badly for them and wondered about them they could have been little girlfriends I could have played with. Instead they were just trapped in doors where their brothers could freely roam. neither did I like playing with some of the other Jewish little girls I knew who are so feminine so comfortable with dresses and formal clothes and Barbies I didn't feel like I could connect with them.
I preferred reading my Hardy boys and exchanging them with the neighborhood boys and going down into the alleyways exploring behind our buildings going on grand adventures sometimes dangerous if we got caught I mean not seriously dangerous but we could get in trouble. I would get really mad if any of those boys told me I couldn't do these things and told me it was for them only we'd be getting in fights and I stood my ground I was tough much tougher than my brother in fact and I had to often defend him as his older sister.
there were so many times I got into screaming matches with my family when they tried to pressure me to wear dresses and skirts to go out on family occasions. especially formal dinners and events I really hate it having to go to those just because I didn't want to wear a dress or skirt and I did want to be a boy and I argue with them all the time about it. it wasn't that I wanted a penis I mean they actually kind of disgust me and that did back then it's that I wanted to be treated equal and I wanted to wear the clothes I felt safe and comfortable and and there are reasons for that. I'm not sure I really want to go into it in this discussion but I was attacked sexually attacked walking my dog in Riverside Park and I was only 9 years old and I was wearing a dress. so here is where the gender dysphoria comes about it comes about because as females we are limited and what we can do and how we express ourselves and it's a very narrow window for while in the seventies they sold it was cold unisex clothes and these were clothes that either boys or girls or men and women could wear and I would insist on these clothes because I wanted to be as boy like as possible and if I couldn't have boy clothes at least I wanted those clothes that were truly gender neutral where I can wear pants and not be bothered and have full freedom of movement keep away any makeup any heels and don't fuss with my long hair I didn't want my hair styled curled or any of that nonsense even though my female relatives tried to they tried to feminize me but it never worked and at that time feminism was coming in it was coming in a big way in 1969 in New York City and I was 9 years old it burns within me I wanted to be treated totally equal and not put down just cuz I was a girl or made to do domestic shit and that if I showed interest in something that wasn't girly to not be put down for that either or put down because I don't like girly things.
and like a lot of feminist and lesbians say the teenage years are the worst as far as pressuring young tomboy girls into trying to feminize them that is make them acceptable to a future husband. of course my family tried that too and they tried to put me in makeup and heels and all that kind of stuff and my grandmother would buy me all those clothes she was feminine woman and once I got home with my family those clothes would just sit in the closet and the most androgynous clothes would be the ones I wore. I took up ice hockey which I had to fight for because that's what I wanted to do rather than being Girl Scouts and doing feminine stuff and I played ice hockey for 2 years the only girl in the entire league but then I was pressured out of it by my family told the boys would be too big into mean and it would be too dangerous for me so my brother got into the martial arts and I did not want to be left out so after coming home from my grandparents that summer I insisted that is where I found my lifelong niche as a young amazon.
there were not that many women doing martial arts in the mid seventies and it's certainly we're not too many doing full contact which I did do for short. Till I got my nose busted but I wanted to spar full contact like the boys were doing I wasn't allowed to that really pissed me off. so when every door is closed or some doors are closed being female one really resents it and I know I'm not the only one to go through this millions of us go through this millions of us question ourselves and I think that's why so many want to be male want to transition FTM because they want to short circuit female oppression and the limitations put upon us and the expectations that we should be help meets to men or sex objects or wives or domestics or limited in our abilities because we're constantly told we're less than constantly.
we don't get to be on professional sports teams at the highest levels and worshipped only men get to do that only boys get to dream that they can continue into a professional career yeah there some sports but not with the high esteem of male sports and the money behind them. and then break into trades and be at the highest levels professionally whether it's the skilled trades whether it's the military or being an astronaut even though there are some women astronauts now thats what I wanted to be or politically we still have never had a female president came close with Hillary Clinton at least we cut cut down the cover the color barrier with Obama but even he use sexism to win. I think she would have been a much stronger president and again talk about gender just for you for all women they constantly were talking about how she dressed whether she was wearing a pants suit or skirt was she feminine enough and all that bullshit that men never have to go through unless they're somewhat sissy. they were always on Janet Reno who was attorney general. every woman is suspect she might be a lesbian if she's not feminine enough so that's lesbian phobia and I'm fine with lesbians being tied to not being feminine enough because we defy so many oz as lesbians that's part of our role as women as dikes as women loving women we get to define who the fuck we are we get to define how we're going to dress we are the ones defying male roles we are the ones breaking new ground and I want to teach those young women to love their femaleness and that femininity and femaleness are not the same thing. that's what I loved when I came out as a dyke I finally saw women like myself I saw women who weren't feminine or who defied femininity or who were actively masculine looking strong butch women Amazon women defiant women in comfortable clothes and shoes women who dress the way they pleased without makeup without all the trappings and who were NOT ashamed about it who wore their armpit hair long as well as their leg hair and were beautiful just the way they were. who could wear their hair very short or long or any way that they pleased. question question question all this patriarchal bull bull shit who didn't just acquiese and change sex to conform and you can't change sex anyway only outside appearance and try to convince everyone around you that you are something else that you are not and never can be.
it's a horrible message to young women now that if you don't fit in you can transition and I'm telling you its a message there's too much money to be made in altering female bodies if you think of Hollywood and someone like share or most of Hollywood actually and now even brave amazon dyke or former amazon Martina Navratilova she has had facial surgery to appear more feminine when she was one who was always kind of butchy that so many of us looked up to.because it's not okay to be butch it's not okay to be non feminine so either you have to be masculine or feminine according to gender roles fit into one or the other weathered sex change operations or hormones or makeup for learning the opposite sex behavior it's not about just being yourself not about being empowered in your own body just as it is with the beauty of it as a female a different type of female that there are so many different kinds of us if only we could express ourselves in all those myriad ways without censorship without pressure without being put in pink without being made up without being expected to play with dolls without being feminized without being altered in some way shape or form or shamed around our body size or for many Jewish women shamed around our noses and pressure to do surgery on them.
that is what I mean by all women have gender dysphoria we either are too fat or too muscular or have too big noses or big butts and bellies and breasts or breasts that are too small or hair is too short or too curly or too ethnic or too black and has to be straightened or teeth aren't white enough or skin not white enough or our natural facial features we're told aren't pretty enough so you have to be covered up with slabs of makeup or if you getting older you have to have facial surgery and have a face lift or Botox and never ever will you rise if you're not appropriately feminine enough just look at the Academy Awards only Ellen dressed in a suit and she looked hot but heck she advertises for a makeup company what kind of Butch Dyke is that?
Every female politician is carefully observed on exactly how she dresses not on her policies because what if she looks like a dyke that's the worst thing in the world is looking butch or looking like a lesbian. because any woman who achieves anything is considered too masculine. too aggressive too bitchy too much standing her ground too uppity too visible too angry too strident too militant and on and on where these are acceptable qualities for men so again mentally femininity is enforced not just on the physical level but on a psychic and emotional level as well.
so with all these limitations is it any wonder that these young women want to transition to mail in droves because anytime we discuss feminism or equal rights or breaking down the system that oppresses us and steps on our necks as females we are silenced and humiliated and threatened sexually physically politically spiritually and emotionally I haven't even discussed Male religion that really is the driver of all of this like you look at radical Islam fundamentalist Christianity and Orthodox Judaism much less other traditions even Hinduism where women are so limited on how they can be themselves and express themselves without real physical danger. without full and total control over our wombs and our ability to choose whether to procreate or not.
I will leave this article for now and if I have more to add will add to it or do a part 2 but this is food for thought for all of you my beloved sisters the goddess awakened and got a surprise in the hearts of all women stand your ground sisters and power and strength and your own authenticity have each others backs in female solidarity.
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
In Response to Jimmy Carter's Saying and on Female Spiritual and physical empowerment
"The truth is that male religious leaders have had-and still have-an option to interpret holy teachings
either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly
chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the
pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world."- Jimmy Carter
My responses:
" I love this and Jimmy Carter for saying it. But the bottom line is that I do not recognize male
religious authorities as having any say in my life. If women walked alot of these men would lose alot
of their steam and womyn recognized THEIR OWN SPIRITUAL and religious authority from within..."
And in response to others commenting(facebook)
This:
"The bottom line is male dominated religions are at the very source of Female oppression. The veils, the bodily shaming, the shame around our menses which was OUR MOST POWERFUL TIME PSYCHICALLY where womyn by choice bonded together spiritually in menstrual huts...took a time out 3-5 days a month to spiritually and psychically bond and connect with Mother Earth and guide their tribes with their dreams and visions at this time was turned around to be a time of shaming and uncleanness starting with Orthodox Judaism where she couldn't even touch her husband and had to bathe in the mikveh...but the same with Native religions if a woman was bleeding she wasn't to be around men for fear of "dulling their spears"...i bet..so powerful was Female Magic during our bloods that ALL of the patriarchal religions attempt to contain that physical, spiritual and psychic Female Yoni Power by making it something nasty and dirty and not to be spoken of.
The same when a womon holds her Wise Blood inside and becomes a Crone. Crones were even more feared..Once the Tribal Elders and Wise womyn and healers were turned into useless and villainous older women who were hunted down in the Witch craze during the Dark/Middle Ages....destroying the wisdom and last remnants of our matriarchal societies and Knowing to a deep seated fear many womyn have at truly accessing our Power at the deepest of levels. You have Patriarchal mind numbing and soul and spirit stifling religions to thank for that....much less the 80 million females a year who undergo Female Genital Mutilation in the name of male dominated religion."
either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly
chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the
pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world."- Jimmy Carter
My responses:
" I love this and Jimmy Carter for saying it. But the bottom line is that I do not recognize male
religious authorities as having any say in my life. If women walked alot of these men would lose alot
of their steam and womyn recognized THEIR OWN SPIRITUAL and religious authority from within..."
And in response to others commenting(facebook)
This:
"The bottom line is male dominated religions are at the very source of Female oppression. The veils, the bodily shaming, the shame around our menses which was OUR MOST POWERFUL TIME PSYCHICALLY where womyn by choice bonded together spiritually in menstrual huts...took a time out 3-5 days a month to spiritually and psychically bond and connect with Mother Earth and guide their tribes with their dreams and visions at this time was turned around to be a time of shaming and uncleanness starting with Orthodox Judaism where she couldn't even touch her husband and had to bathe in the mikveh...but the same with Native religions if a woman was bleeding she wasn't to be around men for fear of "dulling their spears"...i bet..so powerful was Female Magic during our bloods that ALL of the patriarchal religions attempt to contain that physical, spiritual and psychic Female Yoni Power by making it something nasty and dirty and not to be spoken of.
The same when a womon holds her Wise Blood inside and becomes a Crone. Crones were even more feared..Once the Tribal Elders and Wise womyn and healers were turned into useless and villainous older women who were hunted down in the Witch craze during the Dark/Middle Ages....destroying the wisdom and last remnants of our matriarchal societies and Knowing to a deep seated fear many womyn have at truly accessing our Power at the deepest of levels. You have Patriarchal mind numbing and soul and spirit stifling religions to thank for that....much less the 80 million females a year who undergo Female Genital Mutilation in the name of male dominated religion."
Saturday, April 5, 2014
On Mainstreaming Paganism...Discussion on a group called Hard Polytheism
This is my two cents: Here goes:
Actually I agree with A.Trance in much of what A.Trance has to say....but I also like reading the rest of your opinions...very enlightening. I've seen in more conservative areas(and I'm in a VERY conservative area now) where some Pagans came forward around their Pagan Pride and made it clear they were neither homosexual or polyamorous..nice straight white families...mmhmmm...just the kind of Pagans I want to associate with. In fact in my current women's group they all are straight white women..till I met a couple Dianic oriented Dykes I really vibed with...and Leatherdykes? I'm still searching...
But I am making due with what we got..and so far no harsh judgements against me, though I'm wild enough being a DykeAmazon Dianic oriented type not into the hetero/mixed Craft which most except the two Dykes are into..and they are relative newbies on the Path, after one of them got burned in a mixed group by a manipulative 30 year old Priestess who believes she's a vampire..and basically was nonconsensually Domming her on an emotional level. In other words, there isnt' a bigger Pagan council to put these folks in check.
But in any case, that's my rant, I could go on, back to the Original Subject.
I did go to Pantheacon once and we could all get into certain ah..current debates...which is why I probably wouldn't go back, but in any case, I went to 3 workshops..two were absolutely lousy, the third fantastic....the two the individual just droned on and on about their stuff, the third it really allowed group participation. I would have liked to have gone to some of the popular workshops but was told that unless you came real early they were all filled. On the other hand, all the famous Pagan authors I read were there...which is one thing impressing me about Pantheacon.
But if I want to spend my money it's gonna be on Leather events or Pagan/Goddess Women events and Women's Land, cuz that's where I EXPRESS my sexuality and spirituality...those are the places that actually FEED ME. Not a huge event in a hotel.
And I agree..I know alot of Wild Witches..both Dykes and not..that really eschew(including my own boi/wife) established events or rituals because it smacks too much of the xtianity they've been raised with. They are too Wild Witch for that...and mostly prefer being Solo. Also it's hard for them to go to large events with that much energy because they are deep intuitives like my boi and pick up on energies much too easily..so they'd prefer either personal or small group work with those they trust.
There's a REASON a coven has 13 individuals..and then you hive off from there. Rituals much larger than that begin to lose intimacy, and I'm sorry, a diet of 30 or 50 plus individuals for the Seasonal rituals or more cannot feed that deep deep intimate work or create that same amount of safety, though they can raise an incredible amount of energy and if used properly can be intensely transforming. However I've met too many Priestesses that don't know proper energetics and lose the energy in those rituals where there are gaps....even so callled well known established longtime Priestesses.
Has energy been moved? If not to me the ritual is a waste of time, no matter if they've followed all the 'forms' of the Path. When did the Goddess get to come forward and have some say so in all that rigid outline? When did She possess or be channeled/aspected/Drawn down by one of Her Priestesses and MADE PRESENT AND REAL AND WOMANFESTED????
I've seen it rarely cuz they are truly afraid of that level of inspiration and allowing Her to have the reigns instead of their formats and their own egos. The more you try to 'mainstream it' the more She will elude us like chewing too long on chewing gum and it losing it's flavor.
I can only speak from my 33 years in Women's Ritual(cuz that's what I'm Called to do) but for myself I feel drawn in the more and more Shamanic direction and I appreciated Christopher Penczak's book on The Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft..and as a martial artist and Amazon Warrior Kerr Cuhlain's book on Wiccan Warrior and Full Contact Magic...as well as Starhawk, Shekinah Mountainwater in Ariadne's Thread (who has since passed to the other side), and others on the Goddess Path.
Having Priestessed a Primal Amazon Ritual in 2011, EVERYTHING changed for me..it was the first time I felt comfortable going completely Skyclad, starting with wearing full leather in the ritual till I was down to just my Black Belt, and doing it because one of my Priestesses also went skyclad honoring the Venus of Willendorf..and I could do it because we both have Venus of Willendorf bodies, and I had NEVER SEEN ALL of us Priestesses channeling Goddess all at the same time! There was a moment I lost where I was in the ritual, thinking I was at one corner of the circle and ending up in another...a gap...but others told me She definitelty came through me because I completely transformed....it was incredibly powerful and I'll never be the same. I cannot do a ritual without windows now or some connection to Nature and simpler is better to me....and ENERGY MUST BE MOVED. That is all I know. That was a large ritual of 60....but the deep work in the small groups also counts.
Though I'm not a congregation type(except on women's land when we have the larger rituals, or for Hallowmas/Samhain) I think you did bring up a very good point that those who get left out of Covens or all the expectations that coven type small groups have on admitting or not admitting members, that the other Seekers have a place to go that will accept them.
Maybe we all need differing models and settle on what works for us. But I believe charity work begins at home..and even in this circle I'm founding....I believe WE MUST FIRST TRULY TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER, when we're sick or injured, or hurting from a breakup or a death or job loss.....that it is NOT enough to merely circle every Month or Moon or solar holiday....and then be absent from one another's lives....and for bigger Pagan groups to have some kind of charity function both FOR community members and then to make an impression on the outside world.
I was astounded that with ALL the Pagan groups in the Bay Area, that NOT ONE Priestess came forward and offered to do the public marriages of Lesbian and Gay members when we were really being given a hard time...right before Prop 8 passed..or to speak out against the religious hatred against us IN A PUBLIC WAY. Many, many Christian leaders did, a few Rabbis did, even some Buddhist leaders did, the Unitarian Church and the Quakers. But Pagan leaders? No...complete radio silence...except offering to do the marriages themselves for money and in private. We need way more visibility and not just count on a handful to do so..
But also allow for the Wild Witch within us all...because it's truly about our PERSONAL connection with our Dieties after all....and they aren't merely 'archetypes'.
-MasterAmazon
Actually I agree with A.Trance in much of what A.Trance has to say....but I also like reading the rest of your opinions...very enlightening. I've seen in more conservative areas(and I'm in a VERY conservative area now) where some Pagans came forward around their Pagan Pride and made it clear they were neither homosexual or polyamorous..nice straight white families...mmhmmm...just the kind of Pagans I want to associate with. In fact in my current women's group they all are straight white women..till I met a couple Dianic oriented Dykes I really vibed with...and Leatherdykes? I'm still searching...
But I am making due with what we got..and so far no harsh judgements against me, though I'm wild enough being a DykeAmazon Dianic oriented type not into the hetero/mixed Craft which most except the two Dykes are into..and they are relative newbies on the Path, after one of them got burned in a mixed group by a manipulative 30 year old Priestess who believes she's a vampire..and basically was nonconsensually Domming her on an emotional level. In other words, there isnt' a bigger Pagan council to put these folks in check.
But in any case, that's my rant, I could go on, back to the Original Subject.
I did go to Pantheacon once and we could all get into certain ah..current debates...which is why I probably wouldn't go back, but in any case, I went to 3 workshops..two were absolutely lousy, the third fantastic....the two the individual just droned on and on about their stuff, the third it really allowed group participation. I would have liked to have gone to some of the popular workshops but was told that unless you came real early they were all filled. On the other hand, all the famous Pagan authors I read were there...which is one thing impressing me about Pantheacon.
But if I want to spend my money it's gonna be on Leather events or Pagan/Goddess Women events and Women's Land, cuz that's where I EXPRESS my sexuality and spirituality...those are the places that actually FEED ME. Not a huge event in a hotel.
And I agree..I know alot of Wild Witches..both Dykes and not..that really eschew(including my own boi/wife) established events or rituals because it smacks too much of the xtianity they've been raised with. They are too Wild Witch for that...and mostly prefer being Solo. Also it's hard for them to go to large events with that much energy because they are deep intuitives like my boi and pick up on energies much too easily..so they'd prefer either personal or small group work with those they trust.
There's a REASON a coven has 13 individuals..and then you hive off from there. Rituals much larger than that begin to lose intimacy, and I'm sorry, a diet of 30 or 50 plus individuals for the Seasonal rituals or more cannot feed that deep deep intimate work or create that same amount of safety, though they can raise an incredible amount of energy and if used properly can be intensely transforming. However I've met too many Priestesses that don't know proper energetics and lose the energy in those rituals where there are gaps....even so callled well known established longtime Priestesses.
Has energy been moved? If not to me the ritual is a waste of time, no matter if they've followed all the 'forms' of the Path. When did the Goddess get to come forward and have some say so in all that rigid outline? When did She possess or be channeled/aspected/Drawn down by one of Her Priestesses and MADE PRESENT AND REAL AND WOMANFESTED????
I've seen it rarely cuz they are truly afraid of that level of inspiration and allowing Her to have the reigns instead of their formats and their own egos. The more you try to 'mainstream it' the more She will elude us like chewing too long on chewing gum and it losing it's flavor.
I can only speak from my 33 years in Women's Ritual(cuz that's what I'm Called to do) but for myself I feel drawn in the more and more Shamanic direction and I appreciated Christopher Penczak's book on The Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft..and as a martial artist and Amazon Warrior Kerr Cuhlain's book on Wiccan Warrior and Full Contact Magic...as well as Starhawk, Shekinah Mountainwater in Ariadne's Thread (who has since passed to the other side), and others on the Goddess Path.
Having Priestessed a Primal Amazon Ritual in 2011, EVERYTHING changed for me..it was the first time I felt comfortable going completely Skyclad, starting with wearing full leather in the ritual till I was down to just my Black Belt, and doing it because one of my Priestesses also went skyclad honoring the Venus of Willendorf..and I could do it because we both have Venus of Willendorf bodies, and I had NEVER SEEN ALL of us Priestesses channeling Goddess all at the same time! There was a moment I lost where I was in the ritual, thinking I was at one corner of the circle and ending up in another...a gap...but others told me She definitelty came through me because I completely transformed....it was incredibly powerful and I'll never be the same. I cannot do a ritual without windows now or some connection to Nature and simpler is better to me....and ENERGY MUST BE MOVED. That is all I know. That was a large ritual of 60....but the deep work in the small groups also counts.
Though I'm not a congregation type(except on women's land when we have the larger rituals, or for Hallowmas/Samhain) I think you did bring up a very good point that those who get left out of Covens or all the expectations that coven type small groups have on admitting or not admitting members, that the other Seekers have a place to go that will accept them.
Maybe we all need differing models and settle on what works for us. But I believe charity work begins at home..and even in this circle I'm founding....I believe WE MUST FIRST TRULY TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER, when we're sick or injured, or hurting from a breakup or a death or job loss.....that it is NOT enough to merely circle every Month or Moon or solar holiday....and then be absent from one another's lives....and for bigger Pagan groups to have some kind of charity function both FOR community members and then to make an impression on the outside world.
I was astounded that with ALL the Pagan groups in the Bay Area, that NOT ONE Priestess came forward and offered to do the public marriages of Lesbian and Gay members when we were really being given a hard time...right before Prop 8 passed..or to speak out against the religious hatred against us IN A PUBLIC WAY. Many, many Christian leaders did, a few Rabbis did, even some Buddhist leaders did, the Unitarian Church and the Quakers. But Pagan leaders? No...complete radio silence...except offering to do the marriages themselves for money and in private. We need way more visibility and not just count on a handful to do so..
But also allow for the Wild Witch within us all...because it's truly about our PERSONAL connection with our Dieties after all....and they aren't merely 'archetypes'.
-MasterAmazon
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Amazon Strongwomen in the early 20th century...
http://listverse.com/2013/03/05/top-10-old-time-amazon-women/?utm_source=more&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=direct
Huge Crystal Ball that is a new form of solar generator
A great invention..but then we know Crystal Balls are magical and can focus the energy of the Sun and create immense heat.
http://inhabitat.com/rawlemons-new-betaray-solar-energy-generator-is-a-crystal-ball-that-harvests-light-from-the-sun-moon-and-clouds/
http://inhabitat.com/rawlemons-new-betaray-solar-energy-generator-is-a-crystal-ball-that-harvests-light-from-the-sun-moon-and-clouds/
Butch Lesbian women are the most visible Lesbians of all: quote from Ajna that speaks to my soul..and maybe yours too. Another fierce radical Femme ally
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
"ASSUMING BUTCH INTO EXTINCTION"
I feel VERY STRONGLY about this article/blog, so I am including the link to it, as for those of us who are Butch Dykes, we are being completely misread by others because of the trans phenomena, and so many nonfeminine bio females transitioning right and left. We ARE FEmale and Female proud, we are Dykes, we are WOMYN, and we won't be written out of bio female womonhood, we are DykeAmazons, and Butches, and we name Ourselves! And we won't bend over for any man, nor is our sexuality 'fluid' as in having sex with bio males!
-In Butch DykeAmazon Sisterhood,
-MasterAmazon
http://bigboobutch.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/assuming-butches-into-extinction/
-In Butch DykeAmazon Sisterhood,
-MasterAmazon
http://bigboobutch.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/assuming-butches-into-extinction/
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
"The Ordeal of Ron Gold"
http://dyneslines.blogspot.com/2009/12/ordeal-of-ronald-gold.html
On censorship of a gay man questioning the trans movement, interpretation and not kowtowing to their party line on Bilerico.
And my response:
On censorship of a gay man questioning the trans movement, interpretation and not kowtowing to their party line on Bilerico.
And my response:
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b) some still retain penises and us Lesbians should just 'get over it' a la 'The Cotton Ceiling' debate. We are FEMALE HOMOSEXUALS, as such, our love and lust is reserved for female bodies, minds, spirits....but especially Female bodies.
No amount of external appearance can change that, or the potential fear an MTF might still retain a penis, and many still retain assumptions of their former male privilege, thinking we will give in to them if they are forceful enough.
Here is an article that addresses the difference between the Gay/Lesbian movement and Lesbians and Gays vs Trans interests. We are different communities. YOu just don't 'get over' the biological sex you come from...it is a lie.
http://liberationcollective.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/there-is-no-t-in-lesbian/
I have heard gay men complain to me in the same manner, as many, many of us Lesbians feel completely coopted by the trans movement, and both MTF's and FTM's who INSIST in being in all our women's and Lesbian spaces, while also having some of their own.Now the gay men are understanding somewhat what us Lesbians have had to deal with MTF cooptation all these years, when FTM's, most who do not fully transition either, are now crashing the gay male community. An FTM with a 'bonus hole' who engages in sex with a male, who enters that hole with his penis, is in effect indulging in HETEROSEXUAL sex, as that FTM can then be impregnated. MTF's and FTM's have garnered the sympathy of the bisexual community and both have stormed the barn on those of us who are exclusively homosexual, pressuring us to basically have a large pansexual community to accomodate ALL of them.
Our issues are different and our needs are different. Sometimes gay men want to be with other bio gay males sexually or socially. And often many of us Dykes want to be with bio women, Lesbian or otherwise, we share a girlhood in common, similar outlooks, puberty, fear of impregnation, and many, many other things that no MTF will ever understand. And FTM's should take responsibility and leave instead of undermine our communities to accomodate their new found 'male' status.
And it saddens MANY of us Dyke Butches to see more and more young women shamed of their female bodies, pressured by their peers, to identify as male, and go down the whole 'male identifying, hormone, surgery' route, as our strong Lesbian communities and spaces and businesses and bookstores have declined much of it due to trans infiltration and cooptation, the trans community has risen AT OUR EXPENSE and on the backs of our young Butches, convincing them for their freedom, if ONLY they identified as male, they truly could be free, and must be 'born in the wrong body', instead of a society that still DOES NOT accept Butch Dyke Women and effeminate Gay Men!
-MasterAmazon