Status Updates From Femininity

she's also doing a kind of invert thing too but less "gay men are women on the inside" and more "gay men act a lot like straight women in terms of caring a lot about their appearances because they are also trying to be sexually desirable to men". she was also like "straight men and lesbians tend not to gaf about all that because they don't want to titillate men" which is kind of true but not true enough for lesbians

"I know what some people think about short hair—they say short hair is mannish, dyky. I could risk wearing my hair quite short if I wore makeup and dresses, or put on some earrings, or if I weren’t a feminist and an ambitious careerist, or if I were married and had two children, but close-cropped hair on someone like me adds to an image I do not mean to project."

dont make me laugh 🤭

i wish i could beam this into every girl & woman's brain LOL the stuff in chapter one about discomfort around the female body and the hatred of adult women resonates sooo deeply as a woman who has a lot of experience with dysphoria & body dysmorphia in general and i think like just about every woman alive has experience with stuff like that

this book is awesome

i dont think ill actually start this today im just putting it here for stats it is for a book club..........

“their continuing reassurance to men and themselves that a male is a male because a female dresses and looks and acts like another sort of creature”