Why Are There No Butch Women in Television?

Why Are There No Butch Women in Television?

Turn on the television and you can see a decent number of lesbians and bisexuals. There aren't enough characters, and they keep dying, but sure, they're visible. But what you do not see is the elusive butch woman. The only example of a butch woman in television I can think of is Big Boo on Orange is the New Black, and she's a horrible person. 

Kind of the Worst

I'm not butch but I'm also not femme, and it seems kind of strange to me that the only women we see on television are ultra-feminine. There's a much larger spectrum of femaleness than that which we usually get to see in media. 

So why is this? Are men unwilling to watch media with unfeminine women? Is the patriarchy so instilled in many women that they don't want to watch media with unfeminine women? I've seen first-hand women shaming other women for not wearing makeup, or not shaving their legs. Much of the same thing may be a problem here. Many women help enforce the patriarchy by shaming other women. 

You would think that with new ways of watching television, like Netflix, some of this problem might be mitigated. Netflix has some very niche shows, and if butch women began appearing in niche television and found an audience there, you might think that they could eventually find an audience in broadcast television. So far though, Netflix has nothing to offer other than Big Boo on Orange is the New Black.