Regarding Lesbians
Jul. 26th, 2009 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tygatiI work at a hardware store. Naturally, this means I get to meet quite a few lesbians and very few gayboys. ^^; Although there was this one pair that I'm pretty sure was...
Anyway, today I saw three lesbian couples, one of them I found to my surprise contained a lady I work with. She introduced me to "her sweetheart", Sandy. It was so cute. <3 They were picking out yard lights. ^_^
What continues to baffle me, though, is one of the other pairs I saw. I really, really don't understand why some lesbians choose to look like boys. I thought she was a boy until she said something. @_@ I mean, the point of being a lesbian is that you like girls... so, er, why would you want to look like a boy? Unless your partner was bi, I guess? Best of both worlds or something?
And I don't mean casual wear either, cause girls can wear casual/grunge/grubbies and still look like girls. No, this was men's haircut, men's shirt, men's pants, may-as-well-have-been-a-man.
*still baffled*
Anyway, today I saw three lesbian couples, one of them I found to my surprise contained a lady I work with. She introduced me to "her sweetheart", Sandy. It was so cute. <3 They were picking out yard lights. ^_^
What continues to baffle me, though, is one of the other pairs I saw. I really, really don't understand why some lesbians choose to look like boys. I thought she was a boy until she said something. @_@ I mean, the point of being a lesbian is that you like girls... so, er, why would you want to look like a boy? Unless your partner was bi, I guess? Best of both worlds or something?
And I don't mean casual wear either, cause girls can wear casual/grunge/grubbies and still look like girls. No, this was men's haircut, men's shirt, men's pants, may-as-well-have-been-a-man.
*still baffled*
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Date: 2009-07-27 06:32 am (UTC)As for the dressing choice, I think it's a matter of personal style and comfort. Men's clothes aren't as constricting, for one thing. Long hair, for another, can be a bother to take care of. Plus there are cultural suggestions of strength/power in presenting oneself like a "man" that aren't there when a woman is utterly feminine.
...But I think I'm trying to parse the unparsable. I like slash, for example, and no essay on the cultural or psychological reasons women like slash--especially women who fancy women more than men--will really explain that to my satisfaction. I like it because I like it.
In conclusion: I don't know why some women choose to dress like men any more than some men choose to dress like women. It's a personal thing, as individual as the person herself. And also, it's damn hot to look at. ♥