Dyke
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Guydyke was coined May 6 2001 by Clare, creator of GirlFags.com, to refer to men and masculine people who are queerly attracted to lesbian and bi women. A guydyke "may (or may not) also feel he is (fully or partly) a 'lesbian in a man's body.'"<ref name=":3">[http://web.archive.org/web/20120505000319/http://www.girlfags.com/faq.html Girlfag website]</ref> It was specifically coined due to awareness of the term boydyke to be distinct, though boydykes can be guydykes.<ref>[https://archive.fo/Cnov Clare's post on queerbychoice.com]</ref> Guydyke is often used by AMAB nonbinary and queer individuals, and some transgender women or cis men may identify with the term.
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===Controversy===
Reclaiming the term has been the subject of many various controversies since its original reclamation. In modern times, most pushback comes from [[TERF|Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs)]] due to the radical inclusion ofinherent in the label. There is also a large amount of discourse around who can reclaim the slur, especially from [[Stellian|m-spec lesbian]] and [[lesboy]] exclusionists. For example, TERFs tend to argue that dyke is a term exclusive to cisgender monosexual lesbians, and that any use of it by other groups is appropriation. M-spec lesbian exclusionists will often claim that the term "dyke" is rooted in disinterest and unavailability to men. Finally, people who exclude non-female lesbians may argue that the term is explicitly and solely targeting women, and hence any non-woman claiming it is being lesbophobic and misogynistic.
All of these statements are untrue. The slur directly targets women and anyone perceived as woman-adjacent for masculine traits and for lesbianism, not necessarily lack of interest in men. What is considered a "masculine trait" ranges from having a penis, to not being a woman, to simply being queer. As seen above, there is also a long and rich history of the term "dyke" being reclaimed by a number of non-women, non-lesbians, transgender, and [[Mspec|m-spec]] individuals.
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