So me and a close one have been discussing twinks (totally straight and gay) but then we got to the topic of gals and now I’m wondering.
Is there a female equivalent to a twink? What about a bear? Help
So me and a close one have been discussing twinks (totally straight and gay) but then we got to the topic of gals and now I’m wondering.
Is there a female equivalent to a twink? What about a bear? Help
If you mean an equivalent degree of masculinity to a twik’s femininity, then a tomboy I guess.
I feel like butch is more apt, as both terms have gay dating scene connotations beyond simply being an aesthetic.
Tomboy and butch are two very different things.
A butch is a specific type of lesbian. The equivalent to a bear in gay social circles.
While a tomboy has no inherent sexual preference connotation. It’s just a girl that acts semi masculine. Tho it is now mostly used as a slur the next step after tomboy would be dyke. Which does carry sexual preference connotation. And would be a masculine lesbian. But not quite butch.
And like with most of things when it comes to these labels. They basically are all rooted in reclaimed slurs, stereotypes, regional expections or variances. Etc.
The queer community where I grew up uses vastly different terminologies then the one I live in now for example. Some of the terms used in one are slurs in the other.
So arguing over this to a large extent is pointless just cause terms vary so much.
I wasn’t saying tomboy and butch were the same, I was saying twink is more like butch than tomboy. Twinks do have more of an implied sexual preference than tomboys, thus being closer to butch. That was kinda my entire point.
It is all made up, and these distinctions are fluid. I think twink has become less gay coded than it used to be, but it still leans towards gay.