#*gender roles

It’s not upholding anything. I also don’t appreciate how frequently bisexual and lesbian women throw straight women under the bus.

You can defend your presentation without coming up with convoluted reasons why your feminine presentation is okay, but the presentation of feminine straight women is not.

Expression is expression is expression. Feminine women deserve basic respect and deserve to be comfortable dressing and behaving in the way that is most authentic to them without being unfairly criticized.

That whole “shedding a single tear” thing that men are constantly described doing during emotional scenes in literature/media for 0.285 seconds before moving on to some tired revenge plotline that is supposed to promote faux-character growth.

Like we are supposed to view this as a grand emotional gesture after a man just witnessed or was a part of a deeply traumatic experience? Why is this even a relevant thing???

Fuck. that. shit.

I want to see men breaking out into heaving sobs after seeing their wife/child/family destroyed right  before their eyes, I want to see men openly expressing raw and messy emotions after their best friend sacrifices himself to save the male protagonist’s life, etc.

I want to see men with snot dripping from their noses, and tears running down their cheeks, and chins getting crinkled in the process, and getting fucking red-ass faces/eyes as a result of the sheer sadness they are expressing because I am tired of men not being allowed to cry in books or on tv.

I am tired of the fact that “shedding a single tear” is the only acceptable “overly” emotional response a man can give in the face of trauma, as if men are less so if they happen to prove to the audience at large that they are in fact human beings and feel deeply.