The Modern Soft Butch - A Biebian?

Last week I watched the latest episode of Glee (series 2, episode 13) where Sam decides that rock and roll in the form of teen singing sensation Justin Bieber will secure the heart of his girlfriend Quinn, who he fears he is losing.  In his transformation as the one man band ‘The Justin Bieber Experience’, he states that ‘hair is step one’. 

Sam goes on to sing ‘Baby’ at the Glee Club, leaving me with the song as a permanent fixture in my head for the remainder of the week, Quinn thinking he’s super cool and Sue Sylvester declaring ‘I’ve got to get that girl on the Cheerios!’

Saturday night at the local dyke bar and I turn to my mates for moral support of the torture I have been suffering. But they point out to me that Bieber fever has inflicted the lesbian community, as they now find themselves sharing the same style trend as an adolescent boy. Biebians surround me sporting that familiar comb over haircut, the trademark of the 17 year old prodigy. 

I return home to Google. I discover it’s a global epidemic effecting the lesbian population. There's a whole website dedicated to Biebians. Who was first I wanted to know. Were lesbians sad enough to be Bieberites?! Or had lesbians set the trend that Bieber followed?

As I research further, it’s clear that lesbians don't have a Justin Bieber haircut. Justin Bieber has a lesbian haircut! Dani Shay, a biebian music artist has even written a song about her mini-me and how she was there first!

Just walking up the high street you now see butch lez girlz zhooshing their hair from shop window reflections to ensure that accuate fringe sweep is in place and perfect.  The diesel dyke style of shaved or short spikey hair has diminished to be replaced by an androgynous modern soft butch.

Unfortunately the outcome for us femmes, is it is now easy to get confused between a sexy dyke and a pubescent boy!