character development
nope that would be called successful female socialisation in a patriarchal society
Please do not use feminism to shame my interests.
I like pink and dresses and art and music and fashion. I also like blue and sports and comics and I choose not to wear makeup and have had short hair for the past five years. I am a person with feminine and masculine interests. I have not been socialized to be more feminine, I have adopted new interest, grown as a person and learned to embrace both my feminine and my masculine sides.
If you want to do a feminist reading on this silly ass comic about how I’ve changed over the past decade maybe you should look at why I actively avoided things typically viewed as “feminine”.
You’re not helping feminism by making me feel like I don’t have control over myself. You’re not helping feminism by shaming girls who consider themselves more feminine than masculine.
Thank you and goodbye.
it’s truly strange that one person could look at this and see “successful female socialisation in a patriarchal society” when all I see is “shedding internalized misogyny”
tbh when I was 10 I prided myself on being a “tomboy” and only hung out with boys (and one girl who was just as tomboyish as me) because I thought “girly girls” were the scum of the earth
took me a long time to unlearn that shit, but once I started wearing dresses, I started celebrating girls of all backgrounds
