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Lately people have been telling me gender identity is a thing you feel - that you can 'feel like a woman', for example. But I legit don't understand what that means. Does feeling like a woman mean you want to wear women's clothes? Or have a vagina? Or get sexually pursued?

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Apr 8, 2020

Like what is it about womanhood that is the thing that people 'feel like', in such a concrete way that they know that's what it's like to feel like a woman? I'm a woman and I have no idea what it feels like (besides what I listed), so I'm extremely confused about this.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

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What is a woman?

12:58 AM · Apr 8, 2020

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A human being with a vagina.

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Men don't have periods!

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@tragic_endings_

Apr 8, 2020

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A cultural, social and psicological identity that while informed by biology, is not defined by it.

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I’m very glad to see someone asking this. I’ve been wondering the same thing for a while.

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A human born with a female body in which she can live as she wishes, but who needs specific medical care tailored by research dedicated to understanding her body on its own terms, not as a ‘small man’. A human who is sometimes not born, or who is killed at birth for having >

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Great question! Lacan's answer: "woman does not exist". He theorized that there are no positive attributes which can be ascribed to women as a class, in the form of "all women are/have/do X".