Something that's been on my mind for a little while:

Women who pursue interests, occupations, and roles that some consider masculine are often accused by detractors of "wanting to be men."

This is a straw man.  All most of these women really want is to not be held back from being themselves.  And if women are interested in and capable of doing masculine things, how exclusively masculine are those things, really?  (And why does it matter?)

People who are prescriptive with gendered behavior often claim that their way is natural.  If it's so natural, why are they so triggered when people ignore it?

They punish authenticity in the name of authenticity, which is just wild to me.

#masculinity #femininity #feminism #genderroles #women #men#thoughtstr #grownostr

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Agreed. One of the best engineers I’ve ever met was a woman. She was great and I absolutely loved working with her.

I'm lucky to hang out with a bunch of guys who take me as I am. Although they sometimes do a doubletake when I show up in a dress 😂.

Some of them have seen feral camping yarnlady and they still love me. I feel like the quality of man really matters...

I go even deeper. I think "being a man" is a universal feature of every human being

man is originally the word for "self" in the germanic/nordic languages, in modern german it is used like "one can only but think" referring to the self but also to all humans faced with the same set of data... actually, german is related to the word "germane" and means "simple and obvious"

the truth they abuse with the whole perversion of trans/homo stuff is literally the fact that male and female are poles and we do indeed all sit somewhere on a spectrum, and there is also a neurological bias created by the presence of hormones for different kinds of cognition

i'm sure you've heard of the common problem with car accidents, where women are prone to tail ending a car in front where men are more likely to get hit on the side, because female brain is always scanning around, constantly needed to watch children or to find herbs or do gardening, and men are focused on the front

me, for example, i have a 75% female cognitive tendency, which is why i'm suited to programming, but it means i struggle some with architecture because i more easily lose track of the centre of focus, there is tests that determine what kind of thinking you are good at, and that was the result for me

i also have other typical female tendencies, i am very talkative and my narrative tends to meander sideways all the time, and as a child i was often scolded for not getting to the point, female mind tends to be indirect... and it even changes with short term alterations caused by drugs, like, alcohol directly increases synthesis of testosterone and makes me more direct, in women, this has the effect of making them more driven to chase after men

In the big picture, we are all different, every individual has its own idiosyncrasies. But we share at least one attribute: none of us is perfect. We are a little like Sisyphus, we are constantly mastering our most painful weaknesses to just stumble upon even worse weaknesses. This is what's called human action and it only follows its natural course by "being a man", having "low time preference" or similar sayings

beautiful post~!

the people who are overly prescriptive just reek of insecurity.

there's something admirable about a woman who is capable in a "masculine role" — there's something admirable about a woman who is capable in a "feminine role"

and just as there's something exceptional about a man who pursues his passion, there is something exceptional about a woman who pursues her passion—whatever that may be. :3