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JhoiraArtificer
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I don't talk about this a lot, but reading Whipping Girl (Julia Serano) really changed my relationship with gender. I was fine with being a woman, I didn't really feel drawn to being anything else, but I never really felt it was okay to actively like being a woman until I read her work.

My version of womanhood and what it means to me is probably about as actively constructed as any trans woman's, but it never felt quite legit to want to be a woman (since I didn't start it as a conscious thing). Reading that "woman" is always constructed made it feel achievable and legitimate for me, too.


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in reply to @JhoiraArtificer's post:

Right!!! Despite growing up surrounded by women defining their own way to be women it felt like the societal messaging is that I was supposed to think of womanhood as a concession rather than an affirmation, I guess? And yeah there's parts that kinda suck but that's true for any gender...