I can't speak for anyone else here, but I don't think so at all. I'm very much a femme, appearance-wise (what can I say? I like looking like an amazon goth princess... :-P ), but am a Network Administrator, know my way around soldering iron, screwdriver, and wrench, and even like to watch the odd football game (tho not this weekend since my team lost a heartbreaker :-( ).

I love gadgets, abhor "chick flicks", but can still go a bit batty over a Torrid "50% off Clearance" sale.

I'd put forward that butch/femme is going the way of most outward gender...the way of dress-up, and not of inner identity and behaviors, which are (thankfully, IMHO) becoming more unisex by the day.

That said, it's only other women showing "femme" who seem to turn me on while the "butch" cues leave me cold...and just try getting a date when you live in the butch/andro/FTM-obsessed SF Bay and are a femme into other femmes. :-P

<<I'm moving to texas, so I'm practicing>>

I'm sorry. I hope you're at least moving to Austin or Dallas (great scene up there). I escaped from a 6.5 year stint there a year and a half ago.

As for boxes and boredom, the argument/discussion has been going on since at least the 70s. I'm getting bored of it. There's got to be more interesting discourse in the lesbian community other than the usual suspects: "Lezbo Bed Death," "Butch/Femme/Boxes," "The Bi-Sexual Question," etc. and ad nauseum.