As young as I remember, the idea of 'acting like a girl' or even 'acting like a boy' seemed fucking dumb to me. I was a 'me', I acted like a 'me'. I'm not a girl or a boy.
It's a shame there was no word for that back then other than "Oh you're just a tomboy!" so it took me reaching my thirties to realize that most tomboys don't want to wear a binder.
It also took you guys having pronoun tags for me to realize that I suddenly felt euphoric being referred to as they/them. So thanks for that.
Waaait, so you're saying that my most cherished core memory of being a moderator on a web forum and a 13 y/o kid calling me Sir trying to get unbanned is kinda sus?
pfft, what's next, claiming that cis women aren't creeped out by the idea of playing a female character in D&D? yeah right lol
Incredibly relatable - I (not afab) also always just thought of me as "me" and hated association with predefined gender labels. Started using they/them a few years ago online first and just realized pronouns more free of those associations were so nice to have
As young as I remember, the idea of 'acting like a girl' or even 'acting like a boy' seemed fucking dumb to me. I was a 'me', I acted like a 'me'. I'm not a girl or a boy.
It's a shame there was no word for that back then other than "Oh you're just a tomboy!" so it took me reaching my thirties to realize that most tomboys don't want to wear a binder.
It also took you guys having pronoun tags for me to realize that I suddenly felt euphoric being referred to as they/them. So thanks for that.
Waaait, so you're saying that my most cherished core memory of being a moderator on a web forum and a 13 y/o kid calling me Sir trying to get unbanned is kinda sus?
pfft, what's next, claiming that cis women aren't creeped out by the idea of playing a female character in D&D? yeah right lol
Incredibly relatable - I (not afab) also always just thought of me as "me" and hated association with predefined gender labels. Started using they/them a few years ago online first and just realized pronouns more free of those associations were so nice to have
Nice!