Comments on: Attack of the Glamazons http://www.thefemmeshow.com/blog/2008/06/23/attack-of-the-glamazons/ Celebrating Femme Identity Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: hussy red http://www.thefemmeshow.com/blog/2008/06/23/attack-of-the-glamazons/comment-page-1/#comment-174 hussy red Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:13:08 +0000 http://www.thefemmeshow.com/blog/?p=150#comment-174 this article is so incredibly whack, though i absolutely thank you for bringing it to all of our attentions. you hit on most of the points that annoyed me, though what also got to me was this equation of "lipstick lesbians" or femmes, as being detached from a subculture and completely apolitical. i don't doubt that for many people, no matter what gender one ascribes to, this is the case, but there is a large contingent of femmes (and queer folks generally) dedicated to a very specific politics when they claim "femme" (or butch, or trans, or genderqueer, or bi,...whatever) to ignore that is to denounce it and almost reposition "femme" as merely an aesthetic. also? this sentence in here about how in "new-lesbian society," whatever the hell that is, "even the butch is downright girly," is so totally irritating and offensive to the large contingent of butches out there who might take issue with being identified as "girly." i've known me a good number of butches and it'd be damn near impossible by any stretch of the imagination to call many of the "girly." village voice, why you gotta let a girl down like this? this article is so incredibly whack, though i absolutely thank you for bringing it to all of our attentions. you hit on most of the points that annoyed me, though what also got to me was this equation of “lipstick lesbians” or femmes, as being detached from a subculture and completely apolitical. i don’t doubt that for many people, no matter what gender one ascribes to, this is the case, but there is a large contingent of femmes (and queer folks generally) dedicated to a very specific politics when they claim “femme” (or butch, or trans, or genderqueer, or bi,…whatever) to ignore that is to denounce it and almost reposition “femme” as merely an aesthetic.

also? this sentence in here about how in “new-lesbian society,” whatever the hell that is, “even the butch is downright girly,” is so totally irritating and offensive to the large contingent of butches out there who might take issue with being identified as “girly.” i’ve known me a good number of butches and it’d be damn near impossible by any stretch of the imagination to call many of the “girly.”

village voice, why you gotta let a girl down like this?

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