Gender essentialism! Female socialization! Bodily autonomy! It's an aim at awareness that ends in a bloody faceplant http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/08/baby-ear-piercing.html …
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Yes, I know it's a piece from 2016 that randomly burst onto
@NYMag's top 10, but I am weirded out by too many things.
I wish I hadn't had my ears pieced at 11. I don't wear earings, haven't since high school, but the holes are a tell for having been female.
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Bodily autonomy is a fundamental principle for me. 1 of those issues that make me want to pull all my hair out when it's casually violated.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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11 is hard. I imagine you were coping w. all the glorious middle school peer pressure PLUS additional pressure to perform femininity.
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Yeah- I tried very hard to conform to feminine expectations in pre/early teens and then again in mid twenties.
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