The 15 hottest butches

[trixtah]

...according to afterellen.com

We've all heard the stereotypes: Butch lesbians wear too much flannel, clunky shoes and suffer from an excess of bad hair (mullet, anyone?). But that stereotype, which reflects a broad cultural discomfort with masculinity in women, has another side: the erotic. For those who like their lovers to be more genderqueer than traditionally feminine, butches rock the house.

Yay them for doing this, although it's naturally US-centric. I'd even agree with the sequence, in the main (ETA: despite the incompleteness and inclusion of more andro types), although I really don't count "Shane" from the L Word as butch. And I'd say Ellen is waaaaay more butchy than Melissa Etheridge (whom I've always considered pretty low on the butch scale... I suppose compared to her girlfriends, maybe kinda).  But I do agree with their panel's view that Joan Jett is more to the fem side than not. I mean, of course - I wouldn't fancy her otherwise! Hee. (Actually, I have had one butch partner and one tomboy one - the former turned out to be a fruitcake, so we actually didn't break up because of a butch clash; the latter, well, that aspect did  become an issue, bizarrely).

It's just a shame that one of the criteria in the article seems to be how hot one looks in a "white ribbed top" - I'd score pretty low on that scale, myself - one needs to have a much flatter chest, or the shoulders to carry off the extra accoutrements. Alas, alack. Hopefully I compensate on the "handiness" score. And I have never never never had a mullet... although I might still have a flannel shirt knocking around somwhere.

Oh, oh, and a completely unrelated thing - I can has music! I succumbed to the Dark Side and bought an iPod. I think that Mac computers are overpriced for their features (unless you're a graphics designer), and it irks me that they lock down the hardware as well as  the software (where possible), but it must be said that Apple do an excellent job of interface design. I loaded Rockbox on it as soon as I plugged it into my computer (5 minutes, tops, including downloading the software), so it's now running a version of *nix, playing my non-DRM'd OGG files happily, it works like a normal USB storage device when plugged into a machine, and I get to play fun games on it at the same time. I find the sound isn't as good as my old iAudio, but the Rockbox interface gives a huge number of equaliser (hardware and software) tweaks, so hopefully I can smooth the rough edges off, given enough twiddling. And it's apparently got a Gameboy emulator included in the other goodies... so maybe I don't need to go out buying one of those as well (I've resisted this long!).

The nice thing is that the Rockbox doesn't blow away the Apple firmware, so it's entirely recoverable back to its factory settings.

Yay, technologeeez!

Comments

[grey-evil-twin.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think we need to run that survey here. I know enough femmes to put together a panel.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you'd get some more *real* butches being suggested. :-)