Gender, enby feels, discussion of dysphoria
I don't understand people who are surprised by the number of people rejecting masculinity nowadays. Like, as someone who was AMAB, why would I *want* to be a boy? How hard did you work to make maleness and masculinity a comfortable place for me to be?
Gender, enby feels, discussion of dysphoria
I spent so much of my life feeling like there was no room for me in maleness, feeling wrong for who I was. So much of my upbringing was spent being worn down by masculinity, being told that wounds, when repeated enough, would become calluses and make me stronger. I was taught that I should be hard and terrifying, inscrutable and unmovable.
Nah, fuck all of that, bro.
Gender, enby feels, discussion of dysphoria
I want to be soft and gentle in the world. I want to be happy, to be sad, to cry and laugh and love and feel with my whole being. I want to be an example for generations to come that will show them that *this* is what people AMAB can be.
I don't need maleness, and I don't need masculinity. I'm happy to have rejected their poison, and to be truly and authentically me. Because I'm better without them.
re: Gender, enby feels, discussion of dysphoria
@ShibaSass I tried for a decade to be Male without all the toxic poisonous stuff.
And eventually I just accepted that my man hating aunts were Right, men are Awful. And it kinda made it impossible to see myself as one.
Just kinda wish folks didn't think Herm was a Slur. =\
