Well, you can be dyke without being butch, but if I said I was just butch, most people who weren't lesbians would just look at me funny. ("Flata", "butchflata" and "butch", and many more people would get the context for the second one.)
So, I've decided what to say if someone asks. (Why does nobody ask? I want to tell them!) "My gender identity is not 'woman', it's 'butch dyke'. I still like men, but that's a side issue." Which has the advantage of being a pun, since "side issue" is called "bisak".
When it comes to the butch women in general society, I can't recall a name for them. Sure, "man" or "male" is sometimes used as a slur, and so's "dyke", but as long as they do their job well, I don't think anyone says anything about their gender identity that's not outright an insult.
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Date: 2007-05-28 07:34 am (UTC)So, I've decided what to say if someone asks. (Why does nobody ask? I want to tell them!) "My gender identity is not 'woman', it's 'butch dyke'. I still like men, but that's a side issue." Which has the advantage of being a pun, since "side issue" is called "bisak".
When it comes to the butch women in general society, I can't recall a name for them. Sure, "man" or "male" is sometimes used as a slur, and so's "dyke", but as long as they do their job well, I don't think anyone says anything about their gender identity that's not outright an insult.