This topic is just kind of been my whole week (okay, who am I kidding, it's my every-day topic, but whatever). This stuff is SO complicated, as demonstrated to me AGAIN rather horrifyingly at the "business fashion" presentation at work this week. As someone who currently identifies as genderqueer/genderfluid, and works in a conservative office, and has an extremely conservative family...not to mention all the internal issues I fight with on a daily basis...well, this: female bodied and some days can wear a dress happily and some days has to grit their teeth to get through it because they feel like a horrible drag cartoon, which self am I supposed to be true to? The one I feel like today that makes other people uncomfortable, or the one I felt like last week that gets rewards for showing leg and asking permission?
Pretty much sums it up.
No, the answers are FAR from easy. Thank you for putting it better here than I can...and thank you for reminding me I'm not alone. I know I'm not, but, this week especially, it means a lot to have someone else that gets it.
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female bodied and some days can wear a dress happily and some days has to grit their teeth to get through it because they feel like a horrible drag cartoon, which self am I supposed to be true to? The one I feel like today that makes other people uncomfortable, or the one I felt like last week that gets rewards for showing leg and asking permission?
Pretty much sums it up.
No, the answers are FAR from easy. Thank you for putting it better here than I can...and thank you for reminding me I'm not alone. I know I'm not, but, this week especially, it means a lot to have someone else that gets it.