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@icedquinn @Hyolobrika @Giganova8 @lunarised That's happened more than once, another woman journalist did it, she had also previously done one about trying to start at an entry level job without education and try to work into economic stability and found it basically extremely difficult. She then went on to masquerade as a man and attempted to date women and concluded that it exhausting and emotionally corrosive
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@Moon @Hyolobrika @icedquinn @Giganova8 @lunarised """The research for Self-Made Man had been unorthodox, to say the least, since it had entailed disguising myself and then living, dating, working, and recreating as a man. I became a man, at least as far as the people around me knew, but I remained a woman, and that psycho-emotional contradiction in terms pulled me apart at the seams slowly and insidiously for eighteen months, leaving me limp and in tatters, sitting semicatatonic in my pajamas outside a nurse's station in the hospital, torporously signing away my freedom and giving my consent to be forcibly restrained if necessary.""""gender dysphoria" basically, i guess
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@icedquinn @Hyolobrika @Moon @Giganova8 @lunarised eh, trans guys have a hard time, dated one for a while and plenty concerns about height, "baby face (wasn't actually a thing, but still he worries)", etc, plus "girls being allowed to do masculine things" actually making it worse in some situations, like lesbians being all "wow, hot; i want to date him (it's ok, because he's *actually* a girl, just one who looks and smells and acts like and thinks like a boy, and is so strong and can pin me down and)", which is kind of... invalidating? i guess the meme word is the only one to use. situations like that
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@shmibs @Moon @Giganova8 @Hyolobrika @lunarised yeah that's more or less what it is.people get really focused on the BIID aspect and largely ignore the mental ones. there aren't nearly as many F->M's and i think this has to do with how women are just allowed to do masculine things if they want to. if they want to complain at 7/10 instead of 2/10 then society just goes :cirno_shrug: the opposite isn't really permissible. :blobcatlobster: ah you're XY, it's the rat race for you!