Femmeness

What is the appeal of femmeness since it doesn't have the obvious attractions of maleness, i.e. power and privilege, associated with it?

Some femmes share heterosexual pasts, some pass through butchness before they arrive at femmeness, some move back and forth between boy identities and woman identities.

I suggest that anyone who is queer and feels an affinity toward femmeness has a legitimate claim to it.