Mind the step

being a girl and hitting puberty is so traumatic. you go from being a genderless little free thing to being hit with shaving and makeup and growing breasts and skincare and menstruation and suddenly being sexualised when like a few years ago you could take your shirt off to play in the stream and trade yugioh cards with the boys and come home covered in mud and not even think about it. and then you spend years hating being a girl and hating everything puberty did to you and wishing you could be a boy or be completely genderless again and it takes you Many years to come to terms with yourself Or you simply try to Lean In to everything and do makeup tutorials on YouTube and claim it’s for fun. like how can this be treated as normal

this is it this is literally it I have never felt so seen and heard in my entire life than when reading this post right here, it’s so hard to go through puberty and know that you don’t want it and then to make it out on the “other side” or w/e you wanna call it and know that you have had something stolen from you that you can never get back because now any change you make it perceived as being on one side of the binary or the other or both and I don’t want both. I don’t want neither. I want what I had before, and I can never have that again.

My loves... girls don’t think like this, the only people I’ve talked to who want to revert from puberty or be the opposite gender are gender queer people:|

Nope, I am a butch lesbian who does not appreciate being told I’m not a woman and many girls & women clearly relate to this. You are being completely inappropriate and diminishing the impact misogyny can have on children.

Hi just because youre a gay man doesnt mean you can say whatever you want about women

what is it about things being gender neutral having to also be ‘masculine’. like, why can you wear a suit and tie and call it gender neutral but not a dress cause that’s feminine. why can you call people dude or guy as a gender neutral term but not girl cause that’s feminine. short hair is neutral but long hair is feminine. i mean i know why this is fully a rhetorical question but let’s think about that

Aphrodite would be proud of your bush, btw

was musing the other day that I can't think of a lot of Coward Characters who are women. I can think of female characters who are afraid, anxious, and conflict-averse, but not a lot who are really Cowards. my current hypothesis for why this might be is twofold: 1. if a man runs screaming and crying away from something the automatic response is "what a coward" but if a woman runs screaming and crying away from something the automatic response is "what a girl;" if you want a Coward Narrative about a woman then you have to put in extra legwork to try and make it not come across like she sucks because of her gender. 2. I think "cowardice" is seen as kind of the worst defect for the masculine gender role in a way it isn't for the feminine role. comparable sins against femininity are more about being un-loving and un-beautiful, and there are a lot more Narratives about female characters centered around those. basically what I'm saying is that we need more girlcowards and also probably more boycinderellas.

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again