You make some excellent points about the persistence of feminist misunderstandings of butch/femme (which is something that I think those of us who are immersed in queer culture can easily forget) and also about the way dominant media, etc fail to “get” butch/femme codes in celebridyke world.

FYI I wrote about Lohan and Ronson on my blog and I actually sent my latest post on lipstick lesbians, femme, etc to Feministing, at least in part because some people’s response to Portia and Ellen seems so unaware of lesbian gender and what it means for many queer women. We’ll see if Feministing posts it!