I forgot that it’s my mega week so no big info dump this time. Instead I bring a question: how do you practice gender self-care? Do you have any activities or rituals that make you feel more comfortable in your gender? Painting my nails and taking care of my hair are the most consistent ones. These shouldn’t even be considered gendered activities by society, but I missed out on having long hair and painted nails when I was younger because of my assigned gender, so doing them now feels validating and gives me confidence.
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funny side effect of being trans woman: After decades of my life spent not being a girl and living in total jealously of women, I routinely cannot believe misogyny is a real thing. Like, logically I know that many people genuinely hate women, but emotionally I actually struggle to believe it’s true. I can hear people say explicitly misogynist things and all I can think is “there’s no way he actually thinks that, right? that’s just a bold statement for attention, he can’t genuinely believe that” and no matter how many times I tell myself “no they genuinely think that” I just emotionally don’t believe it. Women are obviously so much better than men, right? those are just sour grapes 🙄
“some people hate women”
I know exactly the feeling - how can some people just not like women categorically?
This was me but with transphobia as well.
I genuinely could not comprehend how all my classmates were in such agreement that they’d never date a trans girl or how trans children should be denied healthcare.