"Chapstick, lipstick, femme, all of these are ways that you choose to present yourself. Femme and masc are pretty self-explanatory, I feel femme is if you present femininely, you know, wear dresses, things that are traditionally seen as feminine. Masc, you wear things that are traditionally perceived as masculine. Chapstick is like...chapstick is chapstick. If you put on chapstick, it's very neutral. I see it as kind of androgyny."
"A chapstick lesbian is a one who exhibits some traits of, but does not wholly fit into, the masculine butch stereotype. The lipstick-chapstick analogy, I don't know where it came from. A 'lipstick lesbian' is a very like a feminine lesbian: she wears lipstick, so she's feminine presenting. I would say that lipstick and femme are interchangeable."
Chapstick lesbian is a term describing lesbians who present with androgynous traits, neither fully masculine nor feminine. The term emerged in the 1990s, popularized by Ellen DeGeneres on her television show. Unlike lipstick lesbians who present femininely or butch lesbians who present masculinely, chapstick lesbians occupy a neutral middle ground. The label represents one of several ways lesbians describe their gender presentation, alongside femme, masc, and lipstick identities. TikTok has become a platform where LGBTQ+ communities, particularly lesbians, discuss and define these identity labels through hashtags and videos.
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