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The truth is we shouldn’t be able to look at ourselves except when bending to gather water from a stream or lake

This ^^^ is good info. Love the examples of how invalidators work their toxic magic. BOOST.

Reblogged for a Follower who wanted the signs of emotional abuse.

Questioning ur gender as an afab person is hard bc ur like do I genuinely identify as Not A Woman or do I just not identify with the negative images of women that have been shoved at me since I was born? Like do I not like being referred to as a girl because that really isn’t who I am or is it because being connected to femininity comes along with some not great associations? And then there’s the question of am I really Not a Woman or am I just butch/futch? And then u get into questioning what gender even is to begin with. What is gender? What is masculinity? What is femininity? Is there anything inherent to either of them, or is it all socially constructed bullshit? Does gender actually exist?? If not, then what the fuck is my relationship with gender?

Omg I wanna cop 6 of these

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