i genuinely think the lack of butch women in film is a serious problem. the fact that so many minorities get visual rep in film but butch women are conspicuously absent is something we need to talk about more
and on the exceedingly exceedingly rare occasions when butch women are in films it is only ever in Lesbian Movies. butch women cannot exist on the screen unless their sexuality is the subject. in other words: butch women cannot be shown as regular women, there’s always a statement that must be made… but sometimes we want to exist without being statements is the thing. let that woman have a buzzcut and not wear makeup and only wear masculine clothing and let it not have anything at all to do with who she is as a person and let her be in the narrative as anything other than Dyke Out Of Place




