Page 75 of Nearly Roadkill
Look, in heterosexual terms, the man has all the power, and the woman is subordinate and obedient, at least that’s the default setting. Oh you can dial the strength of it up or down but nobody usually bothers to change it. Butch/femme is a change. It’s *sharing* of strength. I call myself a “high femme,” but I know how to change a tire, and more often than not I like to be on top.
::laughing lightly::
I don’t mind that you personally don’t want to take on the roles of either butch or femme, but please don’t censor me or any one of my brave butch or femme sisters.
Can we shake hands on that, in solidarity?
Fembot
Scratch!!! Is that cool, or what?
Can we try butch/femme?
Come on, come play with me!
::wriggling happily::
—Winc
PS Guess which one *I* wanna be? heehee.
PPS How ever did she make that heart???
To:Winc
From:Scratch
Subj:Femme/butch
Femme/butch, huh? (I reversed the names for a little equality.) You get into the weirdest things. Isn’t that kind of tired? I mean, ’50s lesbian thing?
What is it exactly that compels you?
—S.
To:Scratch
From:Winc
Subj:Snarls of all sorts
Tired? You’re asking *me* if butch/femme is tired? ::laughing merrily:: Sounds awfully refreshing to me. In-your-face fuck you to homogeneity.
—W.
To:Winc
From:Scratch
Subj:Butch and femme
Hmm, maybe b/f is another kind of traction?
Now I’ve found a posting from a woman who calls herself a butch. Thank gawd you want to be femme, the butch one made more sense to me. Does this mean that in real life you’re a woman and I’m a man? Sigh.
—S.
To:Scratch
