Femme - "An LGBTQ+ person doing femininity, ironically if you are actually female"

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An article called Femme fatale I came across that made me think. Though not in the way the author intended.

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a37258757/femme-fatale/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

Apparently the term femme has been appropriated by run of the mill, painfully ordinary hetcisstraightnorms.

The heroine went to a halloween party once dressed in a masculine way and it felt wrong, she had to change. It turns out she needed the ironic femininity to express her true self. You see, she's queer but no one can tell that if she's on her own and that's insufferable because she's not like all the other girls.

.. I once went to a NYE fancy dress party as Eddie the Eagle Edwards (and I like an ironic 50's swing dress and heels as much as the next gal). I felt a bit uncomfortable but I thought it was because of the giant cardboard skis, shell suit and mullet, maybe it was because my embodied femmedentity was hidden and actually I'm secretly, very special.

Oh good grief. There comes a point where you see someone with way, way too much time on their hands and not enough real challenge to think about.

I read the thread and article and not sure I'm getting it?
So in my experience, femme used to be term for straight looking lesbian. Or more stereotypical girly. With a subsection who went uber girly in appearance (they usually had masculine looking female partner and this was also a roles thing going back decades) Somewhere around mid 2000s it became quite uncool to look 'lesbian' like this in London inspired by TV series L word which had a glam look for women. Suddenly everyone was going all straight looking and that was the gold standard. Before that, yes it was hard to get into Lesbian bars if you didn't especially look lesbian....

not heard the term femme for years although have noticed the young ones seem back to more butch/femme but some butch are now transmen. That's my observation.
But...
Surely the Femme on shirts in just woman in French. H&M have constantly got French slogans on tshirts. So does Sainsbury's and others. Its just a flipping tshirt.
So I don't get this article?!
I do understand she pinned her identity on being 'femme lesbian' but that's not been a thing for ages and ages and sounds like she some of the time is (with transmen) but is also bi (dates men). Its just the most boring non article I've read in a while and can't get worked up about it. Literally who cares.