THIS
I'm a she/her woman BECAUSE I IDENTIFY AS SUCH not over genitalia or anything
And no it wasn't much indoctrination either in my case because none of my parents cared what I preferred to play with as a kid as long as I had fun
And I get the thing to be still referred as she/her as a kid still but if I had a problem with that I'd voice it as a kid too. I never did and it wasn't because they wanted to call me a she/her and I was like "makes sense/I fear their judgment" (they tried to tell me to play with feminine things but I also refused and they didn't mind either nor get mad etc.)but because I felt 100% comfortable with the label. I was a rather vocal kid and teen who never let my parents decide for me no matter what
So basically..yes
Gender is NOT the genitalia
Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.
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I'm allergic to make up and I happen to like cute clothing: automatically makes me a "pick me"
Yet goth/emo women putting other women down costantly for not being as "cool" or tomboy like them and calling us toxic and dumb just for liking pink making men in a relationship "right" is somehow "empowering"
How do these people not realise that
We aren’t saying we’re “real women” or superior or anything.
Not wearing makeup wouldn’t actively discriminate you from jobs and even normal social situations.
All this isn’t happening in some scenario where there’s a 50/50 split between makeup and non-makeup women.
writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.
searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.
Musically Talented IX
I am clearly not done drawing him with a piano.
Musically Talented XI
Someone asked for Alastor playing the saxophone 🎷
Alastor is here for all your "Princess Consoling" needs!!!~
I dreamt Alastor was in The Little Mermaid last night, and in thinking how the movie would go down with him in it, well.. it spurred this. XD
btw if you tell people with transmasc headcanons of gnc women in fiction that they're taking away space from women / that it's not subversive enough, im cleaving you in half with a comically large cake knife
I love that thing when people get a little bit tongue-tied and garble what they’re trying to say so they make a little “blegh” 👅 noise and start over. verbal reset button. hitting the top of the tv to unscramble the signal
𝑯𝒂𝒛𝒃𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑶𝑵𝑳𝒀 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕! 💘 she/her * 24 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 ▪︎ 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘅 / 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝘁 (occasionally other HH characters)
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