a take, caps lock
*stands up on stage*
*taps mic*
HELLO I'M NOT A BOY, NOT ALL SHORT HAIRED PEOPLE ARE BOYS OR BOY ADJACENT THANK YOU VERY MUCH
re: a take on gender expression
like just what the hell
i thought i'd be okay with people thinking my avatars were boys a long time ago but it bothers me more than i thought it would
i actually kind of feel like they're more feminine than masculine, somehow, and... i dunno, it just feels weird to have people tell me otherwise, after being called a girl irl for so long
but boy-ness shouldn't be the default for anybody with short hair and a flat-looking chest
re: a take on gender expression
i can't see anything as being inherently gendered or binary, not anymore
gender is what you make out of it, and what i'm making my self expression out to be is that everything i wear, everything i express, everything i do, is....... just me. not masculine nor feminine
re: a take on gender expression
my aim when i initially began cutting my hair shorter was never to look more boyish or masculine, it was to look less girlish and feminine, and that shouldn't necessarily have to equate to being more masculine somehow
in other ways, i actually began presenting *more* femininely than i ever had in my entire life before being openly nonbinary so fuck people thinking long hair is inherently girly anyways