lesbianegg:

female masculinity isn’t privileged but it IS fetishized, and some people haven’t realized that those are two different things

specifically, young skinny pale “soft” female androgyny (never too fat, never too masculine, never too dark, never too old) is the object of fetishization, both by men and “queer” communities — in a hyper-sexualized manner. this fetishization disregards butch voices and focuses on bodies, “aesthetics,” and symbolic potential

on the other hand, old/fat/very masculine/non-white butches (or other masculine women) are literally treated as disgusting by both men and “queer” communities, regarded as suspicious by most groups, pushed out of communities — at best, just believed not to exist

and none of this is privilege!