tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185535.post113864426312901847..comments2023-10-18T09:44:11.979-05:00Comments on still life: ponderancesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16220553595935499440noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185535.post-1138738589944802312006-01-31T14:16:00.000-06:002006-01-31T14:16:00.000-06:00Yeah, I was thinking about that too, after I wrote...Yeah, I was thinking about that too, after I wrote this. Femmes or just non-stereotypical-lesbian-looking women can get a bad rap, because people don't see them as "real" lesbians or because other lesbians suspect them of being better able to pass as hetero or even live as straight if they want to. Historically, the femme half of butch-and-femme couples was seen as less invested in her ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16220553595935499440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185535.post-1138733360162638102006-01-31T12:49:00.000-06:002006-01-31T12:49:00.000-06:00what androgyny looks likehttp://www.time.com/time/...what androgyny looks like<BR/>http://www.time.com/time/2004/style/090604/androgyny/2.html<BR/>also, I think stereotypical lesbian appearance is a kind of sexual coding. It has to be in a society that increasingly tries to make anything other than heteronormativity invisible. Unfortunately, it invalidates, or disavows anyway, other kinds of identifying traits that aren't markedly "lesbian." In Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com