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RE: A sweater with special flair: Fibremood Paola

thoughtless me… sorry

No, you did nothing wrong at all. I was just commiserating with how it feels like there's not judgement for other people's bodies but definitely some exists for my own.

Yeah, I agree that lots of things shouldn't really be "gender bound" when they're just human traits, and not male/female traits. A lot of people, even if they are cisgender, feel bound by "rules" because of how society thinks genders should act, and it's silly. People are individuals and have the whole range of human experience and limiting themselves because they think "that's a boy thing" or "a girl thing" is just limiting your experience pretty arbitrarily. Like, boys can cry and like to do crafty things (which are generally considered "feminine" things), and girls can get angry and like to play sports (which are generally considered "masculine" things), and to shame people for it is ridiculous.

In fact, one of the big reasons I think why I didn't realize I was trans until later in life is because I just thought I was "doing feminism" like NO DO NOT TREAT ME WITH YOUR STEREOTYPES OF HOW YOU THINK GIRLS SHOULD BE RAWR and it didn't quite register that it wasn't just about expectations and stereotypes for me but something far more. Like I thought I was rebelling against social expectations but really I just felt wrong all around and I didn't have the words for it.