dragonlady7

a WOMAN on PURPOSE, is going to have so much more perspective, than someone like me who is a woman by habit, or by having been told so, and never finding it objectionable enough to stop, but like wow!!, to CHOOSE THIS, that's so powerful, tell me your secrets, or don't but like i respect you anyway

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molsno https://molsno.tumblr.com/post/689517709485064192/but-perhaps-most-of-all-what-mtf-spectrum-trans :

“But perhaps most of all, what MTF spectrum trans people can offer feminism is a very different and far more empowering perspective on femininity. Over the years, many feminists have argued that femininity undermines women, or that it’s purposefully designed to subordinate women to men. Such a view no doubt stems from the experiences of those women who have felt that the expectation of femininity has been forced upon them against their will. But those of us on the MTF spectrum who have had the reciprocal experience - of inexplicably being inclined or compelled to express femininity that we were taught to avoid or repress - cannot so easily dismiss femininity as an artifice whose sole purpose is to devalue and disempower women. Because we come to embrace our own femininity for ourselves rather than to appease others, we are able to appreciate the many ways in which femininity can be freeing and empowering for those who gravitate toward it on their own. Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.”