girlfriendluvr:

historyfemme:

noah fence but hollywood doesnt portray “femme lesbians”. it portrays straight-looking lesbians. hollywood knows fuck all abt the femme identity. theres a big difference between a femme lesbian and “a conventionally attractive actress we keep as appealing to the male gaze as we possibly can bc we dont wanna alienate men by portraying a woman they wouldnt wanna fuck”. like yeah i wanna see so many butch lesbians in the media i lose count of them, and i think it’s way more important to show butch lesbians, but i stop reading any post abt this as soon as it claims that hollywood shows femme lesbians

i hope it’s okay that i add this, i recently sw the movie ‘battle of the sexes’, which is about billie jean king (n irl lesbian tennis pro) nd fetures a tender, good lesbian romance. at the end of the movie, they showed pictures of the real BJK, and she looked NOTHING like the prettied-up emma stone (terrible casting choice btw) they showed. BJK looks like a real lesbin, nd she’s not even femme. the movie portrayal of her was clearly designed to ppeal to straight people watching the movie. it pisses me off so much

(lso sry it looks like im crytying my A key only works 2/3 the time)