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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11 is hard. I imagine you were coping w. all the glorious middle school peer pressure PLUS additional pressure to perform femininity.
Yeah- I tried very hard to conform to feminine expectations in pre/early teens and then again in mid twenties.
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The pressure are so awful for so many queer people. My mom faught hard against gender stereotypes. I'm so grateful for how effective she was
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My mom willed me to be hyper girly. I was always told how girly I was, even when obvious reality was opposite. She does it to my neices now.
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Society is what it is of course. No one is immune. But that aspect of my upbringing is an enormous blessing + privilege.
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