poll: when you were growing up, were you "not like other girls" / "not like other boys"?
- not like other girls15.5%
- not like other boys50.3%
- nah25.3%
- results8.8%
894 votesFinal results
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Conversation
Weird but girly child. Felt alienated from other girls in middle school because I wasn’t ready for “dating”/boys; felt alienated from women again in college when I discovered online feminism and felt like “the way you say women are is not the way I am.”
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It felt like “everybody” was telling me that lifting weights, not being sufficiently social/agreeable, and admiring strength/independence were “guy things”, and also I could count and realized I was more likely to get dates in male-dominated spaces.
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(Ironically, a lot of the bloggers who were super “women are pure beings of gentleness and social appropriateness at all times and never pursue self-interest or get horny” in the Obama years, and made me feel alienated from my gender, are now...trans men.)
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