i’m harvesting a great crop of jelly beans today
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why do they think you are putting femininity on a pedestal? (and why is that bad?)
The convo started talking about the shame I feel while stuck as a guy because of how it differentiates me from women and the fact that as long as I look/am perceived this way some people will always, always see me as a threat in a way I can never allay. Since femininity isn’t entangled with that I view it as better.
I don’t see it as too much of a problem myself, but I guess the worry is that I’m pursuing femininity as a reaction to masculinity (or how it’s perceived) rather than in it’s own merit
I mean it’s kind of hard to fully separate two things in a dialectical relationship like that.
乁[ ◕ ᴥ ◕ ]ㄏ I guess. But the concern would be if I just end up replacing that shame post-transition with a feminine counterpart. I don’t really know what that would be though, the shame I have now feels so masculine coded I can’t even imagine the alternative