By: iva

We live in a world where femininity is the norm and where androgynous and masculine women are continually policed, punished and ridiculed. Your observations on the supposed disinterest in high femme women in lesbian circles are in this broader context both short-sighted and self-centered. To complain when a subculture doesn't abide by the mainstream rule is to betray privilege - feminine privilege one enjoys and takes for granted in a gender policing society to the point where the lack of admiration begins to feel like a slight. The mockery and condescension you then visit on the women which showed little sexual or romantic interest in you is rather sad... I assumed this article would be about reclaiming one's power in the face of adversity, not taking a dig at those who failed to recognize your specialness. Reclaiming your own power doesn't have to include robbing others of their own - that's not how it works.