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What is Female Masculinity


Last year in 2015, Buzzfeed put out a video exploring what "Female Masculinity" meant to a group of people who identified on different ends of the gender and female masculinity spectrum.

Trish Bendix also wrote a brief piece along with the video Titled the Spectrum of Female Masculinity.

There's also a book written by Judith Halberstam called Female Masculinity, that explores the idea of what that means. Here's a short description from Amazon, "Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.."

Masculinity is not exclusively male. Cumberbund is feeling the love.

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