#you really think you gotcha'd me but man I just want a civil thought out conversation

[the-chaos-crew]

I know you're trying to get me angry but I do know and think about these things

I'm saying as a trans man, those are the only "traditional" feminine qualities I can think of. growing up liking pretty ponies and liking stuffed animals was a girl thing and I was perceived as a girl.

I know men and boys get clowned on for liking the same things, often because they've been seen as "girly" things and boys can't possibly enjoy "girly" things

I will say, to circle back to the original post, I have been plagued by the idea that I'm not man enough because of the way I was born and raised, and because even now as a man I like even just a few ""girly"" things

I'm not allowed my masculinity just as cis men and boys were denied their masculinity if they expressed any interest in something "feminine"

I'm starting to realize just how much harm was done by the idea that men who don't like feminine things do so out of misogyny.

Protip: men, cis or trans, are allowed to have a gender identity without this being twisted to make them out as hateful bigots.