Tag: butch

  • “Oh. THAT Lesbian.” — Notes on “Ammonite”

    “Borrid.”  That is, “boring meets torrid.” Credit for this magnificent term goes to USC’s Karen Tongson, who coined the word to describe the particular genre of lesbianish cinema, made for mainstream/straight consumption, which play out “long-simmering romances that are in many respects about repression and sidelong glances, the indirectness of desire.” Tongson’s commentary was directed…