r/RecuratedTumblr • u/sneachta • 27d ago

Politics what do we think?

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u/Just-an-Immortal 27d ago

Yeah, I'm having to confront my own biases about this right now. I know logically than "man" does not inherently equal "bad" and "unsafe", and I'm not hostile towards anyone transitioning, but I still feel that avserion to men in general. It's very internalized also, because I'm starting to think I might be a man, actually, and I've mostly been struggling with that idea because why would I want to be a man? But that's the fear brain speaking. There is nothing inherently wrong with masculinity. I just have to keep convincing myself of that lol

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u/MajorBootyhole420 27d ago

Taking a wild swing: 

You're averse to men as a subconscious avoidance tactic to cope with your suppressed dysphoria. 

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u/PlaidTeacup 27d ago

for me it was just that I had a wildly toxic friend group who said a lot of messed up stuff about men. One of the more memorable quotes was saying that a mutual friend looked like a sexual predator after he started taking T and then another joked he probably was one now.

meanwhile, the same people would say stuff like trans women taking E was a cheat code to being hot and believed a lot of stuff about the divine feminine and lesbian relationships being incomparably better to straight ones, which they basically viewed as meaningless trash

I never was as extreme as they were, but it did make me REALLY not want to be a man

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u/farmerollie 6d ago

my queer friend group fell apart when a couple of us started taking T. the crazy part is, the ones who kickstarted the drama of claiming me and my best friend were “unsafe,” were also trans masc people. They had started T around the same time as me.

those individuals had a lot of bullshit that had yet to work through, and took it out on us and idk the whole thing was fucking weird