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navree · 1 month

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someone needs to study the way that misogyny has been cycling in the past few years because why am i seeing the resurgence of "if you don't dress/act/perform/otherwise conform to stereotypical femininity you're actually nonbinary/a lesbian/a trans man who isn't out yet" bullshit

#personal #there's obviously some elements of like transphobia and gender essentialist bigotry behind it #as we saw with like imane khelif and the shit surrounding her #where because she didn't look stereotypically feminine and was in a sport people associate with masculinity traditionally #her very identity as a woman was called into question despite her having identified and lived as a woman her entire fucking life #but this is a thing i remember people dealing with back in like the late 2000s or smth #it just feels like we cycle through 'women can't be too feminine or else they won't be taken seriously'#and 'women who aren't seen as feminine aren't really women' every five years or some shit #i blame tiktok anti-intellectualism it's responsible

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