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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

🚫Girly ✅Childish

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

it's designed so that you can't win except by being and doing precisely what you're told. this is because it's designed by evil people and promoted by weak people.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's funny how it only seems to be a problem in on direction. Boyish women or 'tomboys' are applauded in a lot of circles.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Historically less so. Even back in the 80s lots of girls i knew and thought of as tom boys. Where forced to dress and act girlie by there parents. Further back you go more limits there were.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth

"I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both"

Chastised by some, loved by others, it depends a lot on the audience. I think overall though women have been given more a pass, pegged as 'willfull' or 'impetuous' where as with men it's treated as a flaw that they should be shunned for.

Think of the differing ways that daddy's girl and mamma's boy are perceived to get to what I mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't yield to sexists who think you have to be a certain way just because of your sex characteristics. Being a man solely means you've a male anatomy. Masculinity and femininity are social constructs which ever change and ever differ based on subjective perception and what not, with no actual value or benefit to anyone's life. You are perfect the way you are and the way you act is acting like yourself, which is perfect for you, even if it's not the standard for the average man. ^ ^

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

What type of mental ginastic are they using? Lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Reactionaries have no underlying principles, they just react, violently in some cases. If you guide them through their own cobbled-together set of values and show the contradictions, they get angry and start yelling, because to them, they are their own moral arbiter and a challenge to their status quo is an enemy.

Gender is a Social construct and getting upset at people for being outside the bimodal spectrum conservative society expects them to be is utterly pointless, stupid, and harmful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Men can behave girly.

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