Stone Cold Butch

“In part, it’s because the language of gender identity has always been a bit bewildering to me—I’ve felt hungry, happy, gassy, and anxious, but never male or female. Even so, it has been tempting to interpret my experience in ways that separated it from that of other women. This is especially true because cis-gendered women have a distinct tendency to define themselves in ways that don’t include me. I hear women throw out things like, “As women, we all know how important it is to feel pretty,” or “We, as women, are naturally more tender and nurturing,” statements that never seem to include women like me. Not only do I dislike feeling pretty and prefer arguing to nurturing, I don’t even particularly like eating chocolate. Popular culture, and women themselves, often imply that I lack many of the most essential qualities of womanhood. So in the past I’ve been quite tempted by the idea that perhaps I’m not a woman after all. I mean, I’m masculine in all sorts of ways—I am ambitious, logical, aggressive, strong, and highly competitive. And I’m certainly not silly, frivolous, dainty, weak, or overly emotional … Oh dear. That’s where I run into a major problem, isn’t it? When I start listing traits of mine that I’d call masculine, they’re always positive. They’re points of pride. Whereas when I list traits I lack that I’d call feminine, they’re negatives. It seems I can’t consider my own masculinity or lack of femininity without relying on some of the worst and most pernicious sex-based stereotypes. This suggests to me that the enterprise itself is suspect.”

yeah I’m a nonpracticing woman. I was raised female but I don’t really believe anymore yknow?

just remembered i’m a lesbian. what a relief

what if 😳😳 we died in the same forest 💀🌲 and our decomposition 🍄🤢 fueled the same ecosystem 🥀🌱 and we were both girls 😳😳😳

Not to be all “no hope for women” but it does feel particularly alarming that things have gotten so bad that liberals are openly saying that it’s better for a president to only just have one rape accusation and some inappropriate touching of several women on the books rather than a whole host of accusations and legal proceedings about it. Like, true, I guess, since we’re counting.

A cycle where the only two supposedly mutually reinforcing points are “bad people talk about this thing” and “if you talk about this thing you are bad.”

butches own the term “handsome” so men need to find a new word

it’s ‘clown’

A cycle where the only two supposedly mutually reinforcing points are “bad people talk about this thing” and “if you talk about this thing you are bad.”