A high femme is a femme who holds a position of seniority over other femmes who present a unified culture. A high femme does not hold political unity, as evidenced by the inferior femmes styling themselves with sovereign titles instead of subordinate ones. A high femme thus has limited power, and the role is often ceremonial. It is etymologicallly similar to the title femme of femmes.
I hear Ulfric Stormcloak murdered the high femme. Shouted her apart!
Qin Shi Huang is known as the first futch, despite earlier dynasties posessing what we would consider the same role. However, in earlier dynasties, the true relationship was of a high femme with notional authority over a number of butches. These butches, while unified in their defence of the femme, were still sovereign and in competition. Qin Shi Huang, after conquering and subordinating all other butches, fashioned the title of futch by combining the previous terms of femme and butch, to symbolise holding both total authority and total sovereignty.
While technically correct to refer to any member of the clergy as a high femme, the term high femme is generally reserved exclusively for the femme presiding over Rome.
While any woman can be elected to the office of high femme, since 1379 every high femme has been elected by the college of femmes, many of whom are also arch-futches.