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  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    4 months ago

    People are a lot nicer to me now than before I transitioned, which is nice, but it feels like a lot of them also assume I'm dumb af, which never happened when I was a "guy".

    I kinda expected it from men, but what's caught me off guard is that a lot of women do it too.

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      It literally changes people's perception of you, I think, when they make this assumption that you are an airheaded girl and then you start talking smart shit about whatever. They look at you funny.

      • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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        4 months ago

        It's kinda nice at work though. If I'm there with someone older or more masc than me, clients will speak to that person first 90 % of the time, so less for me to do I guess blob-no-thoughts

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          4 months ago

          yea wen patriarchal preconceptions mean less talking and less work...

        • Lenins_Cat_Reincarnated
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          4 months ago

          just wait until you have to suddenly do all the administrative tasks and don’t get fun assignments anymore

    • BountifulEggnog [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      Well I am dumb af so maybe the extra explaining will be helpful.

      Women doing it too is bizarre, I don't understand so much of socializing.

      • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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        4 months ago

        Too be fair, it's mostly boomer ladies and older, but it's still kinda weird. Like, they've been young women themselves at some point.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      Always interesting seeing stories where its people like someone's siblings or parents who start doing that kind of thing. Like, I saw someone whose dad and brother accidentally started explaining sports to her when its a sport they might have literally played and whom they've been watching sports with for like decades.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      yeah its really frustrating

      life hack: wear fake glasses

    • Starlet [she/her, it/its]
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      4 months ago

      how wrong is it that i enjoy this

      I know it's at least a little wrong, but like, on a scale from 1 to 10