mascpriv:

off topic but I think the reason women (self included!!!) get so reactive around ~Lifestyle Choice~ things (feminine vs gender nonconforming, tampons vs pads, slut vs prude, motherhood vs being child-free, a million other things you’ve seen people yelling at each other about) — and assert that the other option is more acceptable/encouraged — is the very blatant fact that there IS no correct and acceptable way to be a woman, that each and every one of these things is HEAVILY stigmatized and denigrated in different ways (and the same root), that we have all encountered an entire cultures worth of people asserting that the “option” (not that any of these choices are made freely, am I right ladies?) you did is the more shameful one. it’s a trap though, cuz the same fuckin shit is on the other side. that’s misogyny babes