this goes out to all of the masc women: stop being ashamed about your body!! sexual dimorphism is a natural characteristic of the female body. stop trying to desperately flatten your chest with uncomfortable too small sports bras. stop stressing out when your pants don't perfectly hide your hips. when you start dressing masculine, it can be so freeing not having to adhere to the rules of "feminine" dressing. don't trade one insecurity for another, or one gender role for another. the whole point of dressing masc is to be COMFORTABLE and YOURSELF. you don't need to look like a male. it's okay to have breasts and hips, it's only natural. those parts of your body are as neutral as your elbows or your shoulders.
remember to picture your body as a raw, physical machine, made up of muscle, hard bones and pulsating organs, full of acid and mucus and blood; a body that leaks fluids, grows hair and gets dirty. you're a mammal, a visceral being, real, solid and material. you take up space. stomp your feet firmly on the ground, belch loudly, lounge with your limbs at weird angles, make odd noises, lift heavy things. be deliberately unsexy, firm and inelegant. place your sensory experience(s) at the centre of existence, for there is no reality that exists 'above' you that dictates your right to personhood based on your submission to aesthetics. you do not cease to exist without categorisation; in fact, it is quite the opposite - you exist within material reality and you are a material being, and it is your prerogative to prioritise that material existence. it is your fucking birthright.
above all, don't let the clothes wear you - you are alive in all your gritty gross glory, and the material world bends to suit your needs, not the other way around.
