I love wearing heels.
I love how they make my legs look shapelier and I feel ten times sexier. And red heels? Twice as good. Unfortunately I can’t wear them for more than a few hours at a time because my feet get sore…
Towards the end of last term I began thinking of re-introducing “butch” back into my wardrobe – which is a little ironic, because as soon as I had the chance to shop I instantly splurged on the most femmy things imaginable (read: lots of high heels, skinny jeans, and lacy underwear). But lately I have been feeling like dressing more “butch” – at least butch-er than how I usually dress. Collared shirts, hoodies, sweatpants. I’ve always thought of myself as a femme with butch accents – and I want to smash the two genders, the two aesthetics, together – combining my navy-with-white-polka-dots, ruffled miniskirt with white combat boots, for example.
When I dress in a “masculine” manner, however, it’s never really masculine, it’s more just my femmeinity expressed in a different form. A little Tank Girl, a little dandy. I re-interpret masculinity to suit my needs.
[via SublimeFemme Unbound]
I find both gender expressions powerful, but in very different ways. When I’m decked out in heels and a dress and makeup, I feel drop-dead gorgeous enough to knock anyone off their feet just from looking at me – but butchness exhibits a very different kind of power. An audacious, inappropriate, active kind of power.
(For anyone who’s curious – my heels are from Asos and the underwear from Cotton On 
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Gender identity is one of those things that I really don’t know very much about, or understand very well. I love reading your posts on expanding your sexuality to include more of a butch aspect because I feel like I can actually relate to them.
And I love the shoes. LOVE EM!
love love love the heels! I have to say, I need a more feminine wardrobe. I wear jeans and shirts too much!
The picture is too hot for me to talk about sensibly. If you want me to gibber incoherently for a while I shall do my best.
I’d love to read/see more about your transcending masculine and feminine. Those two concepts are degrading horrible inhuman. I think they’re devil words. I don’t want to smash them together, I want to smash each one apart, flush them down the drain and just forget about gender. Gender is for the grammarians.
Funnily enough I was reading Wallpaper on the train the other day (it’s a fashion/design mag; train reading) and I saw the words glamazon & glamazonian for the first time (I only read fashion/design mags when I’m travelling
. I’m afraid I thought of you immediately. Do you know that term? Is it in the right ballpark?
That is a nice picture. it’s the duvet colour. and the wood of th ebed matches the Klimt’s kiss. And I find my =self wondering what you’re reading.
Your image is just gorgeous – it looks like a magazine advertisement for, well, something I’d buy!
xx Dee
WOW!
That pic is absolutely perfect!
very very sexy.
Wish I had seen it much sooner.
Stellar.
NICE ASS ^_^ !!!
The pose is fabulous, and you’ve managed to keep your entire body in the focus range. Quite an accomplishment.
You know this already, but you don’t need to conform to traditional societal gender roles. Why not switch back and forth as the mood suits you? What else is a strap-on for?
I like the term androfemminity but I have to say that the impression I have of you is anything but andro. Case in point, this pic!
xo
SF
“I love wearing heels”
And I love watching you loving wearing heels
Love the photo my dear, WOW. wowowowowow.
Also, thanks for inviting us along for the thought process of your gender identity exploration. It’s an interesting read! I agree with SF though that it’s very hard for me to see you as androfeminine, hehe, but that could be because of your HNT’s!
I’m a week late in for this but hey… You have fabulos legs, girl!
Thanks, guys!!
@ Mina Jeans and shirts can be totally feminine!
@ Perfectlips Glamazon? Hmm, more the opposite really! I’m definitely thick/curvy, but really short (5’1″) maybe the picture just makes me look bigger somehow
@ Merlin True that. Speaking of strap-ons, I really need to get one soon… when I’ve earned more $.
@ Sublimefemme LOL That’s true actually. Most of the time I tend towards femmeness, but I’ve been *curious* about presenting as andro/butch more now. Not sure how to go about it quite yet. If I could go thriftstore shopping for shirts with F that would be awesome, but the whole lack of car thing……
5’1″–no way! You fooled me with your leginess (though I’m sure this wasn’t your goal).
I think it’s great that your open to exploring your andro/butch side and I would certainly encourage you to go forth and play (I did this myself at certain points in my life). With all due respect to the power of strap-ons and clothes, for me butch is about attitude. Now that I think about it, andro seems much more embodied and dependent on material signifiers than butch, at least to me. Hmm…
xo
SF
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