Fuck off. Seriously. Eat all of my shit.

Come back to me when you're an afab enby or a trans man, and then you can talk about how it feels to be emasculated.

I've been made to feel like a fucking piece of trash for showing any masculinity my entire life, except I never even had a word for it, because for someone born without a dick, emasculation is norm.

You don't know shit about shit.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    I knew this younger cis woman who was enraged that men these days are "not masculine enough" and it makes her harder to date because she wants to be a "tradwife".

    It's especially toxic because she'd start judging men for being feminine when it came to really irrelevant things like drinking coffee with a straw. I wish I were joking.

    She sounds awful. I once worked with a dude who had long hair, and all the other guys would give him shit for it.

    Funny thing was, he looked great with long hair, I dunno what those guys were smoking.

    But yeah, gender roles are fucking dumb. I wish people could just be who they want without this pressure.

    • Angel [any]
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      3 months ago

      You know, funny story about being male with long hair.

      My grandparents were on a video call with my younger cousin. He's somewhere in the 11 to 13 age range right now. I can't quite remember because I haven't interacted with him in ages.

      His hair is longer than my grandmother's, and they were all going on about how "handsome" he looked and how much they loved his long hair and what not.

      When they got off the call with him, they were like, "He needs to get a haircut. That long hair makes him look too much like a girl!".

      Mind you, quite obviously, my grandparents are viscerally transphobic and religious, and I had to cut them out over that, so it adds up.