I like girls like Lena Headey in "Imagine me and you".I love the strenght of such woman,do not care kind of attitude,dare to give damn to things around and normally they are very well built as a result of intensive gym trainings. 

I do also like shy girls and I am by nature shy.But for me such like are too girlish.I leave them for boys as "I" think they are looking for love.Boyish kind of girls like Angelina Joile in GIA are of my type.They are not at receiving end.Physically a girl but who is ready to stand among boys to face any challange of life is my lady.

May be NIKKI is my kind in Bad girls.

Well, I consider myself boyish as well. I can be girly if I want to be but I'm 90% boyish most of the time. I have to say I prefer femme girl though. I'm the protective type so I really at a lost for word if i see a shy girl....they are too cute >_< lol

But I do get attracted to boyish girl too. It's something about that kool look that make them attractive. Their personality is awesome too. i think doesnt matter if ur into butch or femme u love woman because it is in ur blood. I would never get attracted to girly guys or any guy in particular. But that just me. 100%GAY !!!!

I think boyish girls are hot and I think its because they are like cool , there is just this care factor Zero policy Does that make sense??

Uhm, I am 99.99% boyish most of the time and I guess that would be a major thing to me and others. I love being a TB ... Can never get outta it. I guess I'm attracted to shy femmes because they are irresistable and I love their shyness, cuteness ... Man, I can lose sleep over that, I think.

Okay, that sounds really, really insane!

Damn, I guess I'm just so gay!

Even my supposedly straight friend told me that she once got a crush on a girl who looks like a guy.

I have only been into feminine girls. Not attracted to butch or tomboyish ones. Just like the way I can't be attracted to girlish guys.

The only boyish girl I've ever got a crush on was AJ from ANTM. She is an exception and I can't tell exactly why. She just got that X-factor that caught my eyes since pre-show.

Hey, I don't get the Shane phenomenon either. Even this straightest of the straight girls I know is crazy about her. I appreciate her good looks and coolness but I'm not into her. Am I NOT NORMAL?

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Really i don't get it! I mean as a friend she would rock! but the hair and the look, really doesn't quite do it for me. I like girly girls!

And i also have a straight friend who seems to have the biggest crush on shane!

A certain vibe, and that they actually care about their bodies, as giving a damn about matching your socks and brushing your teeth, means you care about yourself...

I am not into high maintenance people, and soft butch, can be as high maintenance as a femme...perhaps even more so...

I am a very tall person, and though I am not at all androgynous, I do confuse people, because I have a deeper voice and broad shoulders, and apparently I walk like I mean business... as a concequence of this, I seem to attracte petite women, and while I adore petite women, it does sometimes make me wonder...

I always feel flattered when people mistake me for a man cause yeah I can be pretty boyish, (I actually hate looking female), the kids where I work were referring to me as a shim one day, and at high school I use to get called a "boy-girl" (I think it was meant to be hurtful but it didnt hurt so much)... when it comes to attraction though I don't find myself physically attracted to girls like me (I was going to write guys there, confused with my gender pronouns much?), I go for the soft butch to femme type girls but not butch butch...

Always fighting against the current, the salmon has long been a symbol of determination. (Tattoo Johnnie. com)

To rate me on the scale of femme to butch.  I really don't know where I stand.  I know for sure I don't LOOK like a boy,  but I have been referred to as a tomboy when I was younger.  That had to be because of my look because I never played sports or did anything boyish really.  I don't wear a lot of skirts and dresses... well, not any unless I am going to a wedding or church but a man would never wear my clothes unless he wanted to dress like a woman.  I feel like I walk like a boy so that's probably it.  Ha. I guess if I were to describe myself to someone who hadn't met me yet I would say soft butch just to be on the safe side.  It appears to me that EVERYBODY wants the femme girls.  Butch wants femme,  soft butch wants femme,  femme wants femme.  So, I guess it's all just a matter of perception.  I tend to like a wide variety of women, I don't exactly have a type as long as she's cute! 

i really dig the 'boyish' look with girls, but that's not to be mistaken with the "butch" kind of style. you know? the tomboy, but not the one who might be mistaken for a boy. there's a kind of strength and confidence about them. and though i like the tomboy style, i love when they have girly features, like long hair, or a feminine face, or curves. ooh-- or girly tendencies, like a cute giggle or the occasional gesticulation.

i dont know why ... i just dig it !  i always liked people who are " different " !

and most of all different than me ! i'm girly (most of the time ) and i cant picture myself with another girly girl! i wouldnt like it  , it would be weird to me.

i hang out with straight girls only ( not a choice :s ) , so i already have them to shop, talk about girly stuff, wear girly stuff and watch girly shows on tv !

so if i have to pick a girlfriend, i wouldnt like to feel like she's my straight friend.

i'm gay, and i noticed that when it comes to boys, i like them kinda girly ! lol

guess i just find androgynous people attractive ! 

Comme disait Jeanne D'Arc : " tu verras de quel bois je me chauffe " ;)

Don't really do it for me, at least from the physical side of things, i like girls who look like girls but aren't necessarily girlie,i enjoy all things feminine in a girl, the hair,the clothes and mannerisms.

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult"

To be honest it doesn't really bother me.

My last girlfriend was "femme" or whatever you want to call someone who is girly. Though I don't think I'd be totally comfortable dating someone who is really butch. Boyish girls are fine though :)

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I had never really like boyish girl, ever...but this time, I fell hard. I have a major crush with a super cute boyish girl. Thank's to her, I find myself checking out every boyish girl that passes me, regardless whether they're cute or not..damn you, lady!!

It's just all about different tastes in people - you can't really explain why you find someone attractive; you just do. I like all types, personally. Different things suit different people and if someone feels comfortable with how they look, I'm not exactly going to criticise them for it.

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I have been attracted to all kinds of women, from very very feminine to really butch. It is hard to say what makes me attracted to someone...I don't have a "type". It always makes me laugh when someone claims they only like brunettes or blondes or whatever. Then I always think, you select on something as small as hair color, seriously? I just love women...in all their diversity...

But to answer the question, what attracts me to butch women is usually their attitudes, I like women who are very self-assured and know what they want, I find that a huge turn on. Oh and I am also a sucker for nice biceps ;-)

I can't believe my so-called "type" just shifted like that, completely changed..now I don't really like femmes, which is very weird, cause I used to adore femmes. Now, I find androgonous (sp?) girls are smokin' hot. There was this lady in the subway the other day, she was with her friends, short hair, boyish look, gosh..she's adorable, if she was alone, I would go to her, said she's friggin' gorgeous and ran as fast as my little feet could take me..

Ooo..there's this "like a boy" drag competition in cattyshack this upcoming May 30th, anyone going?

Well, speaking as a "boyish" woman... I am attracked to both femme girls and butchy ones. But I can say that I appreciate woman who have am open mind when it comes to how I look. Especially cause one or twice a month I am a man.(when I do grag shows) Its not easy to be gender queer and anyone who is open to it is okay in my books.

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I've been wanting to ask what makes butches attractive, just out of curiosity. I'm personally more attracted to femmes and androgynous girls.

I think being butch is an attitude (and most of the time, also a look)...I've just never been attracted to. It's kinda funny but I realized I don't like the 'swagger'. It can seem rather shallow, but it's just a preference.

"I wish I could lie down beside you tonight & take you in my arms." -Eleanor Roosevelt

why on earth did you not tell me merce... omg.... *stars in my eyes* i have stars in my eyes...

See this is the first thing my straight friends asked me - to explain butch and femme, and I can give them extreme sorts of caricatures but I feel like no one really fits, and the more open and public we become the more important it is to me to leave those behind and say any woman can be gay and any woman can be attracted to any other woman. Personally I play rugby at school which means lifting weights (and never finding shirts that fit my shoulders/arms lol) and build sets and do lights for theatre, don't generally get too dressed up, but I like dressing up every now and then. I'm definately the outside spoon :) - sort of protective in a relationship but I hesitate to call myself boyish because I love being a woman. I just say eh, I'm a girl who likes girls and if you can make me laugh and believe in yourself than labels don't matter anyway.

~ Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. ~ Ani DiFranco

Personally, I'm more of a low-key femme. I don't wear a lot of makeup (generally eye makeup and some clear lip gloss if I'm going out, chapstick/lip gloss every other day), but I love dresses, jewelry, and just looking very feminine. I dated a femme, but it didn't seem right. Who knows, though, I'm still willing to try. ;)

Lastly, you can really get into Freud with such a discussion, but I don't think I have enough of a psychology background (yet) in order to delve into it.
~ Meagan

I just came home from BK Pride Parade, personally I think it's rather boring, compared to Queens Pride Parade. Anyway, back to the topic, there were a lot of andro girls/women there, and boy, I felt like I died and went str8 to a "candy" store. I am still (definetely) checking out femmes, but I prefer andro women now.

 On a second note, I caught myself checking out a kid (she was wearing a YES shirt, YES is a program for adolescents within the age range of 13-21), I swear she didn't look like a kid from behind, seriously.

Boyish girls are just the hottest thing under the sun; those that have the whole dishevelled,slightly scruffy thing going on,with a slight swagger and gallantry.I love it. The girl I've fallen for is tiny in height but has this gorgeous boyish quality to her,despite definitely being a woman underneath all that handsome-ness(is that a word?).The weirdest thing I've noticed recently is that I am no longer attracted to straight women...it's all about the masculine edge mixed with sexy,unmistakeable feminine vibes!!

seriously lol i just like chicks like me.. i know that may make me sound a bit into myself but its the kinda thing i like. i mean me.. i wear boys shorts.. boys shirts.. girl and guy pants.. i skate board some my hairs kinda short im way into artsy stuff.. and the whole "bad girl" thing.. i have a tendacey to fit into that.. lol. and girls like that are well... fucking hot lol...

God helps those, Who help themselves.... In bed.

I too don't fit into those categories (neither butch nor femme and I refuse to fit in, why does a lesbian relationship should consist of one act as "the man" (butch) and one act as "the woman"(femme). I personally think a relationship is where one may complete each other.