What's the difference between butch and masculine?

Butch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (2) Mickelson's coach, Butch Harmon, was reduced to tears.
  • (3) Station commander Butch Wilmore used a robot arm to grab the capsule and its 5,000 pounds (2,300kg) of precious cargo, as the craft soared more than 260 miles (420km) above the Mediterranean.
  • (4) Recent research suggests that butch-femme role playing in lesbian couples has diminished and been replaced with androgynous attitudes and behaviors.
  • (5) She always had a butch identity, but couldn't express it as a girl in the 1980s.
  • (6) And I distinctly remember seeing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned me on to Robert Redford and probably led to me the 70s version of Gatsby .
  • (7) Copyright: AK Summers The idea for Pregnant Butch came when she was first thinking about having a baby – her son, Franklin, is now 10.
  • (8) "When you're a butch, you want the way you look to be recognised as intentional," she says.
  • (9) The Johnny Depp western The Lone Ranger has attracted ire from campaigners over its addition of a prosthetic cleft lip to actor William Fichtner's face, to enhance the "evil" qualities of his outlaw killer character Butch Cavendish.
  • (10) The Stonewall uprising was led by drag queens but the first punch was thrown by a butch lesbian.
  • (11) "Plus it had those elements of fantasy - I was brought up on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Jesse James.
  • (12) Because only the inactive monomeric form of ButChE contains free sulfhydryl groups, it is postulated that MMH combines covalently with the sulfur, preventing formation of active enzyme.
  • (13) The memory of this woman's distended belly resurfaced when Summers was contemplating pregnancy, reviving adolescent fears that butchness was synonymous with ugliness.
  • (14) Take The L Word : the drama about lesbians ran for six seasons, but faced criticisms over not including enough butch characters, for example.
  • (15) But the flipside was that I often felt I had lost my butchness.
  • (16) Pregnant Butch is her first full-length graphic book.
  • (17) Sothcott said the character of Matron, played by Hattie Jacques in 1967’s similarly titled Carry On Doctor and 1969’s Carry On Again Doctor, would now be portrayed as a “butch gay” man.
  • (18) A ll my preconceptions about Mexican food were blown out of the water on my first trip to the country, when I discovered a cuisine that offers everything from butch street food to incredibly refined dishes, from hearty food like grandmother’s mole to delicate crab soups.
  • (19) Stone Butch Blues, her influential first novel , considers the difficulties of lesbian and transgender life in the second half of the 20th century.
  • (20) Finally, like Paul Newman and Robert Redford at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , they broke cover, and dashed to their equipment, all guns blazing.

Masculine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the male sex; not female.
  • (a.) Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.
  • (a.) Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
  • (a.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nurses who enjoyed the field most were of the androgynous or masculine type and had high levels of self-esteem.
  • (2) When added to the food in two different doses during 8 weeks, 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione had a pronounced masculinizing effect, and androstenedione did not modify the gonads at all.
  • (3) This report deals with the shortened estrous cycles, masculinization, depressed fertility, and the systemic hormone profiles resulting from a granulosa cell tumor in a doe.
  • (4) Moreover, the presence of a loss-of-function runt mutation masculinizes triploid intersexes.
  • (5) But when a man is placed in the role of a woman talking to other women, his masculinity is called into question.
  • (6) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (7) We wanted a place where men could discuss masculine topics without facing the same public shaming outcry that happens on social media sites – feminists are quick on the trigger to try to take down anything they consider wrong … Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verified status on Twitter because of his views on masculinity.
  • (8) Two major facts that bear direct relationship with the control of masculine reproductive behavior were demonstrated.
  • (9) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
  • (10) Europe's first ruling on Brexit: it's masculine, unless you're Italian Read more EU diplomats speak, too, of genuine shock at proposals by the home secretary, Amber Rudd, to oblige British firms to disclose how many foreign workers they employ.
  • (11) Lacl of masculinization in female infants whose virilized mothers have h. luteinalis is in contrast to the common finding of fetal masculinization when maternal virilization occurs with luteoma of pregnancy.
  • (12) A new 1-stage procedure for clitorovaginoplasty in severely masculinized female pseudohermaphrodites is presented.
  • (13) The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his sights on the survivalist and his exceptionally rugged version of masculinity, arguing that it isn’t fit for the 21st century.
  • (14) Interestingly, in addition to feminizing XO animals, xol-1 mutations further masculinize XX animals already partially masculinized.
  • (15) On the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, they scored high on the depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, and paranoia scales, and they scored low on the masculinity-feminity scale.
  • (16) Nonmasculine individuals perceived the adversary more positively than masculine individuals regardless of strategy of resolution.
  • (17) Men who adopted a submissive feminine role and women with high masculine aggressive scores were more permissive as regards drinking.
  • (18) In the 1960's, high masculinity of mortality was associated independently with low proportions in primary activities, high proportions hiring in large cities, and with high discrimination against females in school enrollment combined with poor nutritional standards.
  • (19) The study was designed to test whether men and women identifying with a masculine stereotype differ in their perception of a confederate (adversary) who displays either an empathetic or aggressive role in resolving a disagreement over social issues.
  • (20) Thus, it appears that PG synthesis plays a role in the testosterone-induced masculine differentiation of the Wolffian duct.