It's Butch Season here at The Beautiful Kind.
Announcing the new TBK Book Club title!
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man, by Norah Vincent. I'll post my review of the book on Thursday, July 30.
I asked Beast what he thought my most masculine feature was. I'm pretty damn femme, but I cuss a lot. I don't sit like a lady, I spread out. He thought a moment and said, "Your personality." I liked that answer.
One of my fetishes are drag kings. Watching a drag king perform fills me with lust, admiration, and giddiness.
I recently saw Venus Boyz, a documentary on women who become men - some for the night, some for a lifetime. I highly recommend it. The woman I watched it with said she showed an excerpt in one of the college classes she taught, and seven students were so disturbed by the gender bending that they walked out.
While doing research on the New York Sex Blogger Calendar project, I discovered an awesome tribute to female masculinity by Sinclair Sexsmith:.
Top Hot Butches, a project by Sinclair Sexsmith, celebrates the wide range of diversity of butch, masculine, androgynous, genderqueer, transmasculine, studs, AGs, dykes, queers, and transguys, while calling attention to some of the powerful activism, culture, and communities that we are creating. And, to look at photos of hotties.
I had trouble picking the image for this post, but since I'm such a sucker for a mop of curly hair, I went with musician L.P.
Ladies - what's your most masculine feature? Gentlemen - would you do a woman in drag?
Lezbrarian
"seven students were so disturbed by the gender bending that they walked out"
It is pretty disturbing when people decide to be themselves instead of conforming to the rigid archetypes society dictates for them. Speaking of which, TBK less blogging more work in the kitchen k? And who the hell told you, you could enjoy sex?
As for my most masculine feature... I think it's my beard stubble... I really need to save up the money to afford laser hair removal.
Jay
With respect. if you're allowed your opinion, they are allowed thiers.
Lezbrarian
@Jay
I never said they shouldn't be allowed their opinion. I was merely satirizing it. However, I am curious, if this post about say race instead of gender and I had left a similarly sardonic comment would you feel the need to speak up and say that those who believe that all blacks are criminals or that all Jews practice usury are as entitled to their opinions as I am to mine (even though that is doubtlessly true)?
And if you would not defend the racist, why then would you defend the sexist? On what grounds would you say that the bigotry of sexism more excusable then the bigotry of racism?
Devysciple
"Would you do a woman in drag?"
Oh most definitely! I really don't know what it is that makes women in masculine clothing attractive to me (and I thought about it quite a bit), but there is a certain type of woman that just looks drop dead gorgeous in a tux.
The only problem I see would be if I didn't know the 'man' in question was actually a woman. If witnessed a few drag queens and kings, and sometimes I was really surprised to find out the truth. So as long as I had no reason to assume that someone is actually a woman in drag rather than a man, I would refrain from making advances to him/her.
As an afterthought: Maybe the attraction has something to do with the contrast between a masculine appearance and a feminine personality...
Beth
I've seen a few documentaries on genderqueer and transgendered women. I've definitely grown attracted to them, probably because I can relate to the term genderqueer. I'm neither overly girlie or overly masculine, somewhere in between.
Hmm my most masculine feature I would have to say my personality. My partner and I always joke that I'm the man in the relationship and he's the woman because of my views on life, relationships, sex, etc.
eowyn
I will always keep my hair long, even though I love the pixie cuts on women and thing they are sexy and sassy. Because without long hair I think I look like a prepubescent boy. I have dressed up in camo and gone androgenous before. But my husband insists my bones are too small to really pass for a guy.