Rachel and Akiva analyze various nonsense that people whose moral center is “comparison to men” are attempting to glom onto butch lesbian identity, and how acknowledging one’s biological sex doesn’t necessarily preclude misogynistic disidentification from women.
We cover:
Our former collaborator Aaron Kimberly’s turn, contra his stated values, towards promoting voices that explicitly support medical transition
Buck Angel’s history of promoting trans to lesbians, and the misogynist undertones that don’t seem to have disappeared with his decision to platform detransitioners and oppose child transition
Leslie Feinberg’s partner Minnie Bruce Pratt’s sexual confusion that places her squarely outside of the category “femme”
Aaron Terrell’s concept of autoandrophilia and why it doesn’t describe butch lesbianism (but might explain the transition of non-butches)
This episode precedes the release of an episode we recorded earlier in time, in which we broke down Aaron Kimberly’s switch to pro-lesbian-transition messaging in The Bearded Lesbian podcast. Look for that one next.
To make up for all the blues, we end with a sweet note on butch/femme love and female masculinity submitted by a femme supporter of the pod :)
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