Looking back on my childhood, I was a very GNC child. I loved playing in the mud, climbing trees, going camping and cut my hair short myself with some scissors aged eight. I refused to wear dresses or skirts and felt uncomfortable in them because I felt that my movement was restricted - I couldn't do handstands or cartwheels in them, and it made running far more bothersome. I always pretended to be a boy when playing pretend so I could court the girls and have them pretend to chase me, lol.
However, nowadays I'm not butch at all, I grew my hair out and wear make up when going to school and work, I wear all kinds of things depending on my mood, I have both traditionally feminine and masculine interests. As in, I'm very into baking, but I also do martial arts. I find the way people box personalities into either male or female very regressive because a lot of the time I see lesbians my age adding huge significance to their masculine and GNC interests and deciding they must be non-women as a result - nonbinary, trans, gender fluid, anything but female. However I don't see this happening as often in straight women
So, share your experiences with femininity and womanhood? Do you feel like you have a different relationship with womanhood than straight or bi women? How has your view on femininity and gender roles changed throughout your life?
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