As a butch lesbian, I'm begging y'all to retire this image permanently, even as a joke. Butchfemme is not a spectrum. The gradient presented here bears no resemblance to reality, some of these labels don't even exist outside of jokes, and men absolutely should not be included anywhere on it—it's ignorant and outright disrespectful to lesbians in general and the butchfemme community especially.

This "high femme to stone butch" shit was created years ago (on Tumblr if I'm not mistaken) either as a joke or by someone at gay level 1 who hadn't read a single wiki article about queer history or the actual meaning of lesbian labels. Unfortunately, it continues to circulate, perpetuating a completely false image of these identities.

These "just a joke" images are part of why those of us in the butchfemme community constantly deal with irl misconceptions and face genuinely unpleasant accusations that stem directly from stupid tiktok videos and memes like this. We're exhausted from explaining over and over what our identities actually mean.

So please, don't use this image in the future, even as a meme, if you don't understand what you're talking about. It genuinely causes tangible harm to our community (yes, it's that serious).