#because that implies being consciously aware of where I'm moving around on the spectrum
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after a lot of introspection and research (this is going to sound facetious but I mean it) I've settled on what my gender is: I don't mind that I'm a woman, but I have no attachment to femininity that means anything to me and I don't particularly want or need my woman-ness to be involved when people are identifying who I am. Like I get that I'm biologically female, I enjoy some of the social trappings of femininity like makeup and dresses, and people have to use SOME pronoun for me so like yeah. Most people are gonna clock me as female so she/her is fine. If I don't care regardless, why not go with the one 98% of people are gonna assume in the first place.
I tried he/him to see how that felt and I hate it. Gross. Doesn't feel good on me. I'm not saying he/hims are gross don't fucking @ me. They/them is fine I guess too but that's not the one most people are gonna default to unless you tell them it's what you go by. But if a particularly liberal person were to see me in public and just assume by the purple hair and piercings that I'm nonbinary, I wouldn't be upset about they.
So yeah. "Don't relate to or identify with anything really about masculinity or maleness but otherwise don't really care how my gender is perceived", whatever gender that is.
#my words#personal#gender exploration#it feels like I did a lot of personal work just to arrive at a kinda vague and silly conclusion#but that's the most exact way I can describe it#and trust me I've tried#I don't feel agender because I don't feel like I'm outside the spectrum of gender#in the same way that I don't identify with genderfluid#because that implies being consciously aware of where I'm moving around on the spectrum#it's like I know I'm on the gender spectrum I just don't know or care where at any given time#but I obviously DO care at least somewhat because it bothers me to be perceived as a man#so after all of this time did I really just land on Not Man?#I know we have genderqueer and gendercurious and genderfluid#is genderapathetic a thing?
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