What Mystique? (Not X-Men Related)

I have chronic insomnia and that's what led to me watching this documentary on Logo called Butch Mystique. It was really... ehhh... well, fucking lame. I don't know. I'm not really someone who enjoys psychoanalyzing people. I mean, I know my fanfics have a lot of internal dialogue but that's because I want to express in a very detailed way exactly what the characters are feeling and thinking. The best way to do that, in story format I believe, is to go into their thoughts. But when it comes to real life I find that sort of thing a bit tedious and obnoxious. Plus I thought the title was lame.

Butch Mystique? What mystique? No, I'm serious. What fucking mystique is there to being butch? I was baffled by the women going into these very strange tangents about the butch mentality and how it was masculine in how like, if you enter a room and there are other "butches" there you sit up straighter and blah blah... show no weakness is one quote I remember.

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