Cane face?

Lesbian face Op

Think of Home Depot meets Eddie Bauer....meets Hair Cuttery all at once - with a frown that never turns to a smile.

That's cane face.

I think the term "cane face" came from the lesbian character on ER who had a cane.

I started the lesbian cane thing. I worked in a hospital rehab area and pretty much everyone with a diagnosis of fibro was an overweight lesbian. They all used canes. It was something like, "Every person on disability for fibro is overweight and female and if they're a lesbian they're wielding a cane."

Someone turned that into "cane face."

I think the reasoning was a lot of lesbians seem to use canes. I never noticed it till it was pointed out here, but sure enough they do. And they handle them the way medieval saints wear the stigmata, with pointed noble suffering.

I thought it was uniquely DL but my sister, who is also gay knew what it meant so it's out there.

R4 "Pointed noble suffering." I love it! You win DL today.

OP, here

I worked for a cane face. She was overweight, wore a suit, had a cane always and topped it all off with a derby. You know it when you see it.

The further suggestion was that since the stereotype is all lesbians play softball, all that sliding into home plate wrecked their hips and they now have to use canes to get around.

Classic.

I had a bad accident three months ago, and in that time, I have graduated from a wheelchair to a walker to a cane. I don't mind being a "cane face." I'm just damned happy to be independent and ambulatory, and I will never take the ability to walk for granted again.

Best thread. I know one. Played softball. Linebacker built and never cracked a smile Give her a few years for the cane. She's early 20s going on 60.

So many dyke tropes in a single image:

Doesn"'t the subject have to be aged?

OP here. Thanks, all. I get it now. And yes, I can think of many I know fitting the description.

Hey R10?

I'm glad you're okay and still with us

R15, isn't R15 so cute ¿Spreading love inappropriately on the DL ♡

"... and I will never take the ability to walk for granted again."

*snif* It's overrated

Meredith Baxter-Cane

What if they band together and refuse to shop at the Home Depot? Is that considered a Cane Mutiny?

There was a bunch of threads about lesbians with canes and bread pudding. I then decided to post a thread "Caneface who's got it?", and it was a big hit. The term caneface was born. I then posted a thread asking who had canevoice. Holly Hunter being the first reply.

oh and BTW it drove the canefaces CRAZY.

Why do so many lesbians end up using canes? Does it come from eating pussy? I am a bi man, and that is my favorite part of sex with women, so should I be worried? Will I end up being crippled because I like to eat pussy?

It's an unfortunate locution.

I appreciate lesbian lore as much as the next person so tell me, what does bead pudding have to do with anything. Is it a particular favorite of the ladies who munch?

* bread *

A euphemism...

Ah, got it. The yeast and all.

Once upon a time in DL land. Someone held a birthday party at a Ruth 's Chris steakhouse. One of the invited guests showed up with a cane wielding lesbian. The cane wielder ordered a loaded baked potato and bread pudding even though birthday cake was available. Then on her way out she crushed someone's foot with her cane.

Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke.

Gay face = the man who looks like he's just smelled fresh baked cookies.

Lesbian face = the woman who looks like she's just heard her car alarm go off.

Jada Pickett and Queen Latifah have cane face.

Wow, are all those old threads really gone? Claire and the bread pudding, baked potato bar, kisses doll, etc.? How will our gay children learn?

Helen Hunt seems like a classic caneface

R19 - this comment is not being given nearly enough love in this thread!

I see your Helen Hunt and raise you Jodie Foster.

Holly Hunter and Jodie foster have the ultimate cane voice. instead of "yes" they say "yesh". It the equivolent of a purse falling out of a gay mans mouth when he speaks.

I never heard of this before.

It's that face where one doesn't have yellow skin nor is one white-adjacent.

Any other terms coined on DL? I’ve used frau and cane face in the outside world and people are confused. I like to think I’m spreading the gospel.

The recent thread about the lady in charge of detention centers is classic cane face.

Every female PE teacher.

Thank you for enlightening me. I thought it had something to do with dominant BDSM lesbians.

R22

No, but perhaps facial herpes

[quote]wore a suit, had a cane always and topped it all off with a derby. You know it when you see it.

Oh yes, we surely do....ha ha

Do lesbians like caning each other?

I think they prefer to grind

Is cane-face akin to whip-face?

Casey from MSNBC has a classic Cane face, in my opinion.

Cane Toad face

How are cane face and resting bitch different? I have the latter and unless I get a facelift it ain't going anywhere

This lady.

[quote]Will I end up being crippled because I like to eat pussy?

No, you're a man so you'll be spoiled and entitled.

One could argue that a good before-and-after is DL fave Meredith Baxter-Lesbian, who went from looking like a studio-issue ingenue in her youth to America's mom in her sitcom days not having cane face at all during these decades...then suddenly really having it. It's hard to pin down, it's not the typical signs of aging that happen to everyone, it's more than that.

I saw one today at a meeting. It’s a certain hardness around the mouth and usually a boxy chin.

That woman who played on CSI, Las Vegas, was a serious lesbian and they pretended she was straight...it irritated me. I forget her name. They acted as if she was a real feminine girl. She was not.

My former boss, who retired because of her fibromyalgia (I'm not joking), started using a cane a couple of months before she left. I had to hide in the bathroom for a few minutes the first day she came in with it, since "cane face" was the first thing I thought about.

She did love wearing bright polo shirts with popped collars, typically with "wacky" earrings to compliment her masculine short hair.

Perhaps they feel more masculine with the cane. Like the old Marlene Dietrich shots with a suit and cane

The BBC has a weighty over-representation of lesbian presenters and performers, and while you can put lipstick on it, the top unmistakeable cane face is surely Clare Balding.

No, Clare Balding is too friendly and cheerful. With cane face there is always a simmering resentment of others.

Look at Meredith Baxter-Lesbian then and now.

She didn't have cane face till she decided to turn lez.

Is there such a thing as Whip Face?