Well, I'm apparently not very good at this lesbian thing

[NMMNG]

I have absolutely no interest in sports--either playing them or watching them. They bore me to death. :boring: It seems, at least in my experience, about 95% of other lesbians are sports fanatics.



I have no romantic interest in "butch" lesbians, and it seems that nearly every time someone has the notion to hook me up with someone, or someone comes on to me they are a butch. While I don't like "Barbie doll" sorts, I do like my women to be on the feminine side. Once again I seem to be in the minority.



When I go out to a gay/lesbian bar I normally dress quite feminine--possibly in a skirt and revealing top if weather permits, and sometimes makeup and extra jewelry. Of course 98% of the other women there are dressed in casual women's clothes or in men's clothing. I stick out but most of the time nobody seems interested. Maybe I'm too feminine for their taste?



Maybe I should return my toaster.

[Robeson]

1. Come to Nashville....

...There's a great Lesbian/Gay/Straight/Liberal bar about 2 blocks from our house called "The Lipstick Lounge". The lesbians who go there sound just like you. We go there all the time, and it's lots of fun. If you're ever in Nashville, make a point of visiting.

[NMMNG]

3. I'll have to go there if I'm ever in Nashville

I've never come across a lesbian bar that caters to femmes. :cry:

[Jamastiene]

56. Come to Chez Jamastiene.

And the best thing is you'll have your pick of me, me, or me.

[leftofthedial]

12. stand by your man

it's hard to be a woman

[RumpusCat]

34. Used to live in Nashville and went there often

It is a femme scene, and when I was there a bit of an older scene in my then-opinion (I was in college). Cute space, though! :hi:

[LeftyMom]

2. Wow.

I like sports. I buy more clothes in the boys' section than the ladies. I look goofy in feminine stuff. Did some lobes of our brains get switched or something?

I swear, I'd make the bestest lesbian ever if I weren't into guys. :D

[NMMNG]

4. LOL

Anything is possible.

I'm waiting for the day I get back into a "real" job for many reasons, but one of them is so I can start wearing nice clothes again. I have a closet full of dresses, skirts and nice sweaters that are just going to waste because I can't wear them to the jobs I work at now. My jewelry box is growing dust on it as well. :-(

[xmas74]

45. Now you do sound like me.

Most people who meet me think I'm overly feminine at first, until they actually sit down and talk to me.

I took secretarial courses years ago for only one reason: so that I could wear cute skirts, nice blazers, pretty sweaters, jewerly and heels to work! Most of my friends became teachers and were quite upset that there was a dress code. (Meaning they couldn't wear the same pair of jeans for two weeks straight.) A few became nurses so that they could wear scrubs and tennies, deciding that comfort was definitely a factor in career choice.

I'm the oddball.

[Guava Jelly]

5. your a bad actress?

oh I thought you said thespian.
my bad..well anyway I am a pretty good lesbian considering I'm a guy.
:)

[NMMNG]

6. I suppose you thought Danny Thomas was a lesbian?

Oh wait, that was Lebanese. :P

[Guava Jelly]

7. My friend holly who is a lesbian

funny you said that she References other lesbians as lebanese.
She's a knockout herself. Can't say i've never had my fantasys about her.

[NMMNG]

8. It's a reference to the Golden Girls

Dorothy is telling Blanche that their houseguest is a lesbian. Blanche responds, "A lesbian--wasn't Danny Thomas one?". Dorothy, exasperated, says, "That's Lebanese Blanche".

[Guava Jelly]

9. Oh cool

funny ass show!

[billyskank]

10. Unless you have started wanting to have sex with (some) guys

the toaster is yours for keeps. It says in the contract. :hi:

[billyskank]

11. Oh, and

:hug:

[NMMNG]

14. Right back at you

[NMMNG]

13. Phew

I've grown rather fond of that toaster. :hi:

[In_The_Wind]

15. Maybe what you need is a change of neighborhood.

I know lots of lesbians who have no interest in sports. I also know quite a few lesbians who would never dress butch.

Try a visit to New Paltz or Woodstock. Lipstick lesbians are in the majority there.

:hi: keep the toaster

[billyskank]

16. Joani!!

:loveya:

[In_The_Wind]

17. Hi billyskank!

:loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Apparently, I am pretty good at it.

I love sports, sweatpants and jeans with oxford shirts.

I wonder where I went wrong. :)

[NMMNG]

19. I think it has to do with the husband thing

:P

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Possibly... You might be on to something there.

I was wondering why the girls never look at me when we're out together. ;)

[NMMNG]

21. LOL!

You could always wear a t-shirt that says "He's My Brother". :P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. I have a t-shirt that says, "No one knows I'm a lesbian"

I also have this shirt:



www.dyketees.com has some really cool stuff. I'm sure they'd have something to help Mrs. Grumpy pick up women, despite the husband.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Haahahaha!

:rofl: That's great! :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Yeah, it's a fun shirt to wear out to straight places.

I was doing protest training with a gay rights group and we all went out to the movies. I wore the "no one knows I'm a lesbian" shirt. All the ones from the red states were like, "you're going to wear that to a mall?" I had to inform them, "this is NJ. Everyone has seen weirder shit at the mall than a lesbian. It's okay to wear this around here." Then, I took them to the West Village and it was like a Gay Disneyworld for them.

Holy Crap! I just found a new shirt on dyketees that I need...


I have about a 100 snarky t-shirts.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. That's a cute one!

I like the "Kiss Me, I'm Gay-ish" one too.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. Yeah, but I already have a bunch of Irish themed shirts.

My favorite being has a bunch of drunk people passed out in weird positions with beer bottles around them and "Irish Yoga" written underneath. The most obnoxious is probably the one that says, "Fuck the British. Our time will come. Ireland forever." It's written in Gaelic though, so much people don't know what it says.

[billyskank]

31. ...

:wtf:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. I like all the British people I met.

It was given to me by my crazy Irish aunt, who does hate the British though and pretty much judges people on their percentage of Irish blood.

[LostinVA]

38. I must have that Gaelic shirt!!!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

39. I have no clue where it came from other than my crazy Irish aunt.

[NMMNG]

40. One of the coolest T-shirts I ever saw said this:

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Think he'd mind??

:rofl:

[LostinVA]

37. I think the sex iwth guys thing is a deal breaker, MrsG...

[billyskank]

22. Apparently I'm not very good at this hetero guy thing

:shrug:

[LynneSin]

30. thats ok I suck at the female hetero thing

I briefly considered lesbian but figured that would just provide me a whole new class of people I'd probably end up having disfunctional relationships with

[billyskank]

32. ...

:pals:

[LynneSin]

29. I rememberred how you dressed in DC

You looked great - don't change a thing!

[NMMNG]

41. Thanks

:hug:

I don't see myself ever giving up my skirts, dresses and satiny undergarments. :evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

58. Panting.

I like satin. :wow:

[RumpusCat]

35. I am butch and I SUCK at sports

I always let people down when I show up in my Doc Martins and they're all 'Ohh, maybe you could join the rugby/softball team' and I have to confess that if you throw a ball at me it WILL break my glasses and I WILL have to tape them together like a geek. :cry: I won't watch televised sports. I can, however, make a delightful casserole.

Lesbian scenes are weird--I like butch women and I had to do some moving around before I found a 'scene' that really accepted that. I lived in NYC for awhile and it was either femme girls and those twee little 'bois' OR AGs and their ladies. Baltimore/DC seems to be the place for rugby dykes who like rugby dykes (and seriously, we have HOT drag kings here. Who woulda thunk?). I found that Northampton had a lot of femmes but that scene was much older and family-oriented if you ignored the lesbians from Smith (and you should, because they are insufferable). Nashville is femme-city. Those are the only cities I know personally!

Don't return the toaster! There are many colors in the gay rainbow! Without knowing your age or occupation or location I would suggest maybe trying a more upmarket lesbian establishment if your community is big enough to support more than one. If the drinks are pricier you'll probably find more femmes and less mullets. :hi:

[NMMNG]

42. Maybe that explains it

I'm smack in the middle of the DC/Baltimore area. It was only when I went to P-town that I got any femme action. Somewhere down the road I'll get my MLIS and be able to move to a better area--hopefully before retirement age. :P

[RumpusCat]

43. I'm in DC

I love Baltimore, though--my gf lives up there. You know, on some Wednesdays at Chaos in DC they have Burlesque shows. That show gets a lot of femme girls in the audience and on the stage, altho' they're a punk-femme crowd. Personally I like the drag king show (on a different Wednesday). :D

[NMMNG]

47. I'll have to keep that in mind

For those rare times I have a night off.

[smtpgirl]

54. ever go to DeLounge?

Gay bars in DC are almost non-existent, that's why I have a network of all kinds of lesbians, femmes, dykes, TG's, even kind of weird, but that's ok, single and at this point, kind of glad, now let me get back to my stat class cram

[smtpgirl]

53. Exactly!!

[LostinVA]

36. Come down to Central VA and hang out with me

I feel your pain -- Except for number 3 -- I tend to not wear skirts/heels unless forced to because of job interviews, weddings, or funerals.

And there's better ways to know if "you're good at the lesbian thing." I won't list them, as perverted straight boys will be reading this thread... it's too early in the morning for them to get too excited.

Keep the toaster!


(and, for the record, you'd be "my type")

[Jamastiene]

59. Ahem.

Move off, sister. I'm in :loveya: with her already. You'll just be breaking my heart. :evilgrin:

[xmas74]

44. If you ever make it to MO you can hang out w/ me for the day.

I'm not a lesbian but I'm good at the "sports thing". I'll teach you just each so that you can wing it on all convos and still keep your toaster.

Free appliances should never been returned.

[smtpgirl]

55. The only thing as a prerequisite are NO MULLETS!!

[CrushTheDLC]

70. Do Lesbians still wear mullets?

Even in "red states", I thought that was one fad that finally died, among both the homo and hetero ends of the spectrum.

[xmas74]

71. What mullets?

I only see a couple of idiots w/ them. Most Missourians left them behind years ago.

[Skittles]

46. WHO thinks you're not a good lesbian, Buffy?

you want I should kick their ass?

[NMMNG]

48. Nobody actually

This thread was started as a copycat, and while what I said was true I'm not suffering significantly over it. :P

[Skittles]

61. :)

by the way, I am pleased to see my toaster theme is still alive - I mentioned that in a thread years ago, that gay folk were always at my door trying to convert me, offering me toasters and savings bonds. YES!!! :D

[NMMNG]

63. Savings bonds?

I didn't get a savings bond! :grr:

[Skittles]

65. you got cheated my dear!

:7

[Jamastiene]

60. I'll help you.

Let's get 'em.

[TroubleMan]

49. Don't worry....you'll lick that problem one day.

nt.

[NMMNG]

66. I sure will!

[Floogeldy]

50. I am sad to read of your sexual crisis.

You are special, indeed. As a guy who has always loved women, I feel your pain, yet, have no wisdom to impart. :hug:

[Jamastiene]

51. Noooooo!

I don't really care about sports either.
I like feminine women as well and I'm not that butch either. And I prefer feminine women as well. If I wanted a man, I could just go with me. :shrug:
I do dress casual, but I love a woman with revealing clothes on.

Girl keep your toaster. I'll hear nothing of the sort. We'll use that toaster. I'll cook you some miniature homemade sliced bread pizzas with sliced cheese.

I want you. Don't think for a second that you aren't fucking awesome. I really wish we lived closer. Dayum, you are good. :evilgrin:

[NMMNG]

67. .........

[smtpgirl]

52. I am what they call a "sporty dyke"

I love sports, dress well, wear make up (but not all of the time), care about my appearance, and don't say crude things

[smtpgirl]

57. Buffy, you are cool the way you are, don't change a thing

I'll bet you look good anyway!!

[NMMNG]

68. Thank you

:hi:

[politicat]

62. I'd date you...

If I weren't off the market. Fem is great.

I never really saw the whole butch-sports-"macho" thing, even at the bars. All of my girlfriends are/were pretty relaxed and comfortable with their feminine side. Occasionally I'd see it in the older crowd, but not in my peer group. (I'm 30, if that's useful.) Or maybe it's the area; I notice that areas where being out is a major political and personal stance tend to ... I don't know... push people to extremes. Since I came out, I've lived (with the exception of those two years when I spent a couple of decades in Colorado Springs) in pretty moderate to liberal areas where live and let live are the norm rather than the exception.

I see the community acceptance of difference a lot in the metro areas of the west, and not just with GLBT. The really out atheists, political radicals, and others I know usually don't live in the more forgiving places. Heck, it took me a few years after getting out of the Springs before I was able to relax back into comfortable Friendly Neighborhood Bisexuality-Atheism-Social Democraticism-Skepticism instead of being a radical.

[Evoman]

64. *shrugs* beats me...I like feminine lesbians.

lol..although I'm not sure a latin, male entomologist is going to do YOU much good ;)

[NMMNG]

69. Probably not

But thanks anyway. :hi:

[Benfea]

72. There's nothing wrong with being yourself!

Although as a heterosexual male, lesbians are not objects of desire to me, so my preference is for "butch" lesbians as they make the best drinking buds (provided you can stand the endless prattle about sports). ;)