In your language, how do you describe butch and femme lesbians? (feddit.org)

submitted 13 hours ago by Klarinette245@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I ask as a butch lesbian (enby) myself. In Swedish, we have: truckflata or butchflata.

I suck at all 3 languages, but for femme I've just seen femmeflata.

I think it's just Butch and Femme in German, but I'm still kinda learning that.

Lesbians in German is lesben and in Swedish, it's "lesbiska" or "flator".

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[-] gjoel@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Only Danish expression I know is decades old and probably not adopted by the lesbian community (hardly flattering), but that is "beton lebbe", where beton means concrete, liking the women to very butch female construction workers, if I'm not mistaken.

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