Its difficult to accept the terminology for feminine men's identity is wrapped up in transmisogyny and that a lot of what might superficially empower us is mostly based in either differentiating ourselves from transfemininity, which is the Bad Thing, or just appropriating transmisogynist language and wrongly thinking we can reclaim and reframe it. If something is too easy to claim it might mean that it just doesnt carry the same weight when you say it, is what I've learned. On the flip side, a lot of people will just tell you being a feminine man in itself is more perverse and bad and regressive than being any other type of man, and that is just its own form of anti-feminine sentiment. We have to carve a path forward with good intention to form vocabulary for our experience where it is genuinely needed, and to find a framework for the ways we really are degraded rather than borrowing what is pitched as describing us only because we are equated with a more marginalized group. The words and experiences that seem less weighty or meaningful precisely because they've been used to degrade us. There is no answer to the question of how to describe yourself perfectly because the world hasn't even gotten there yet. Let's all take the hard road to self actualization. Together