In conjunction with the growing feminist movement of the early 1970s, roles of butch and femme that developed in lesbian bars in the 1950s and 1960s were rejected, because as one writer put it: "all role playing is sick."
En consonancia co crecente movemento feminista de principios dos 70, os roles de butch e femme, que se desenvolvían en bares de lesbianas nos 50 e 60, foron rexeitados, por considerar que: "todos os xogos de rol son enfermizos".