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		<title>Butch Please: Butch and Boundaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that time and time again, people act like they can’t make me uncomfortable? That as a butch -- as well as a queer person, a top, someone who likes to flirt and be sexual just like most human beings -- it’s impossible to sexually harass me? ]]></description>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch in the Bathroom</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-in-the-bathroom175366/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She looked me up and down, shook her head like she was clearing her ears, and then turned to check the sign on the door. Ah, I thought.]]></description>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch With A Side Of Misogyny</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-with-a-side-of-misogyny-174442/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-with-a-side-of-misogyny-174442/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It's easy for us to say that we don't participate in the patriarchy because we are women, or because we have been women, that we have known what it's like to be objectified, oppressed, fetishized. The thing is that we queers can perpetuate rape culture just as much as the next frat boy..."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>198</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch Gets Dressed</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-gets-dressed173472/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-gets-dressed173472/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to talk about shape-shifting, and clothing, and being a butch who wears things, because so much of butchness is tied up in the things we put on our body.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>81</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thank The 50&#039;s For Your Underpinnings (And Other Fashion Freedoms)</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/thank-the-50s-for-your-underpinnings-and-other-fashion-freedomshas-160277/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/thank-the-50s-for-your-underpinnings-and-other-fashion-freedomshas-160277/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s because of the real-life women who took enormous risks to their personal safety, and who physically fought to wear whatever undies, clothing and footwear they damn well pleased that we can have underwear week at all.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch and Swag</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-and-swag-154165/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-and-swag-154165/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that tie-straightening and sunglass removal feeling. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>85</slash:comments>
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		<title>Femme Privilege Does Exist A Little</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/femme-privilege-does-exist-a-little-153400/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/femme-privilege-does-exist-a-little-153400/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabrielle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real talk on femme privilege from a femme who wasn't always a femme.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>200</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch Does Chivalry</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-does-chivalry-153629/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-does-chivalry-153629/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I’ve seen some queer people who insist on holding doors, and other queers who use their stilettos to step on the feet of the men who do the same. I love them both, but I'm not sure if I can call sides in a concept of gentlemanly behavior that's much older than any of us."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch Antiquated</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-antiquated-152692/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-antiquated-152692/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I just don’t see why a woman would want to aspire to masculinity when she doesn’t like men.”]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>132</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Broken-Hearted Butch</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-broken-hearted-butch-152343/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-broken-hearted-butch-152343/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=152343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["That’s what you wish you could tell her when you’re staring at your shoes or finishing that drink or pretending there’s nothing else to say."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>88</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch Gets Emotional</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-gets-emotional-150333/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-gets-emotional-150333/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=150333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["I get angry at myself for having feelings this big to begin with, and then I wrestle for a few hours with the unique mixture of self-loathing, rage, and sobbing."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch Buys A Drink</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-buys-a-drink-149798/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-buys-a-drink-149798/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["If I wear my heart on my sleeve - and I do these days, much to the shock and dismay of a butch gone prematurely tender - then the sleeve itself is my masculinity."]]></description>
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