Or when someone 'feels like' a woman - what does that mean? Does it mean you want to wear women's clothes? Or have people want to try to have sex with you? Or that you want to have a vagina? All of those are ok - but I want to know exactly which one it is.
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but i sort of don't accept this. Like, I'm open to answers! But the problem is here there seem to be zero answers that are core to identity itself and not attached to signalling. If there can't be an answer to what gender identity feels like then I can't accept it as a concept.
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I'm down with women having a wide variety of presentations. But I have no idea what 'feel like a woman' means, still. How do they know the thing they feel like is 'woman'? There must be a concept of what a woman is for them to know that they feel like one.
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But okay - this still doesn't address my question. If I "feel like a skiier", I have a concrete image of what a skiier is. I can describe it to you. People who feel like a woman have to have an idea of what a woman is otherwise the concept makes zero sense!
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I agree they're not the same, but the principle still holds - to feel like a woman, there has to be a sense that matches [you] with [concept]. What is the concept?
I don't feel like a woman. I don't feel like anything. I don't have any inherent sense of gender.
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....no it won't be completely different? It might be slightly different, but people write books and poems about love that are really popular because other people understand them. If you asked me what love feels like I could say a ton of things that likely most others would share.
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