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   Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 06:37:55 JST Nowhere Girl

   It always confuses me when people think gender is clothing, like wearing pants is something masculine when women do it all the time. It's so archaic.

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     Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 06:37:54 JST Nowhere Girl

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     It's really alien to my experience because I grew up as part of a generational cohort of women who thought glamming up and wearing dresses all the time was kind of tedious and something you did largely to impress an employer or boyfriend.

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     Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 06:37:54 JST Nowhere Girl

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     Like, whenever TERFs say, "Wearing a dress doesn't make you a woman!" I'm like, yeah? And? What's your point? I thought you were supposed to be feminists.

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     Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 06:37:54 JST Nowhere Girl

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     And I like high femme!

     But I know girls who got sent home from school because their bra strap was showing or their skirt wasn't quite long enough so dressing high femme was actively discouraged. Not to mention the annoyance of dealing with horny male teenagers all the time.

     Being a "grunge girl" or whatever was kind of the norm. It didn't make any of us any less women.

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     Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 07:45:15 JST Nowhere Girl

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     Unfortunately, a large part of being female in this society means navigating other people's hypocritical and contradictory expectations.