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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's something women and trans people are DEFINITELY not taught to do. Women are taught to tear themselves apart, trans people are taught even worse.

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[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I am so lucky that I got to have examples of successful, powerful, trans people during my transition. I might not have gathered the courage without them.

Between the community on and offline I knew I was doing the right thing and that I had the same chance of happiness that anyone has.

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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone [S] 1 point 1 year ago

That's great!

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[–] MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

This one hits hard. And even after learning self-love, it still comes and goes. Self-love is certainly a verb and not a noun.

Like LadyButterfly said, there's just so many negative messaging and expectations directed at women. I don't think I'll ever measure up. Still, to quote a popular Millennial maxim, I am cringe but I am free.

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[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Figuring out that just adopting every external expectation is impossible is liberating.

But then you need to figure out what standards you do want to strive for, and that's hard work too. Still better to have the goals set for yourself than the contradictory standards that are handed to us by family, advertising, and media.