Tag: and it stills feels a lot like that sometimes

beranyth:

there really needs to be a much more expanded idea of the “not like other girls” thing

yeah sure sometimes it’s from internalized misogyny and an attempt in trying to separate yourself as superior to the rest

but sometimes it’s a lifetime of “I know what girls are supposed to be and I keep falling short and am worth nothing because of it” that you can’t shake even after trying to shed the marks gender essentialism have left on you

sometimes it’s gender dysphoria where you feel like a liar and imposter every time you group yourself in with “girls” or “women” to the point where you start feeling like an imposter grouping yourself in with “people” or “human”

there’s so much talk about the first, so much insisting that it’s the only reason for that feeling of separation, that those of us struggling with the rest can never talk about them and never trying to heal from them without being branded as perpetrators of internalized misogyny and it’s just???  I’m so tired of it and so tired of this feeling and so tired of keeping it all bottled up just to avoid being branded as some sort of Enemy of Womanhood and I know I’m not the only one