#masculine presenting

[hyperfocuscentre]

trans people do not need to pass as cis before their identity/gender is taken seriously. sure, it’s great for some to be told that they pass, as it can feel amazing to be told you are seen the way you identify but that isn’t the case for all. some may prefer to be seen more feminine/masculine (just like cis people do) and that’s okay!! they should still be respected!! it’s the same for nonbinary folk and anyone that doesn’t fit as ‘man’ or ‘woman’, they don’t have to look androgynous or the way you expect them to.

[spiritfeelingspiritfelt]

Me vs young me doing a cowboy shoot ((for some reason I went through a old western phase. Stick em up I guess?))

[claimhaven]

I thought this hair was cool so here are some options, as always, free to use:

Pink-haired pixie punk?

[clambuoyance]

[DC] doodled these two a lot this week

[b0ne-zone]

if shayne and courtney really are together and married… y’all that gives my bisexual genderqueer weird ass so much hope. like i have always looked at courtney as someone i have so much in common with when it comes to sexuality and gender and them finding someone who is understanding and loves every part of them…. ESPECIALLY someone like shayne… i’m gonna throw up

[clandestinegardenias]

I just taught a sociology class on masculinities this past semester and I had my students do a media analysis of masculine representation in a movie or show of their choosing and—

Now I’m constantly thinking about The Terror.

And of course there’s SO MUCH THERE, I could do a fucking thesis, probably, but

I’m so interested in James Fitzjames and his relationship to masculinity, particularly as a performance. He’s so incredibly image-conscious, and has HAD to be in order to hide the realities of his birth. He buys into the social norms and goals of his time, HARD. He also has, as is slowly revealed in the show, a variety of more feminine longings and traits that are probably part and parcel of his insecurities.

So he adopts this sort of…overperformed masculinity, but a very specific upper-socioeconomic British Navy type. It also makes him very bragadocious (the China story) in an attempt to cover over those insecurities, and I think this is part of why Francis dislikes him at first.

Because Francis also has a variety of reasons to be insecure in his masculinity, potentially, as an Irish man. He’s denied the upper eschelons of male privilege (marrying Sophia, having command of an expedition) despite performing well on all expected metrics.

Yet he takes a very different approach from James. Once he realizes he’ll never be allowed to meet the hegemonic ideal, he kind of just…stops trying. He rejects the performance, the ideal, all of it (and also is uhhh super depressed and reliant on alcohol). And I think he sneers at James because James is doggedly doing the very performance Francis is fed up with.

Then. Later. He learns how much of it WAS a performance to cover up for those self same “failings” of being an outsider that plagued Francis himself. And that bonds them. Besides the fact that Francis APPRECIATES femininity, respects it, in a way that a lot of the other men don’t (see his relationships with both Sophia and Silna) and probably appreciates whatever feminine aspects of himself James chooses to reveal.

But BACK TO JAMES, I gotta talk about the dress scene.

It hurts so much. Because James BUYS INTO Carnivale, and it allows him to express his more feminine creative side in a way that is socially acceptable—it’s for the morale of the men, and maybe finally James’ true self can be a BOON to his role as leader instead of a drawback. He has the opportunity to combine those masculine and feminine parts of himself and have that combination be CELEBRATED and lauded as good leadership.

And then. The blood at his hairline. And reality comes crashing back down. And he doesn’t wear the dress.

Anyway, this is just some preliminary ramblings. Obviously a lot more going on here, esp re: intersectionality and race and class.

[acewitch-writes]

Fandom decided to make Remus a hyper-masculine dom, and for some reason, this involved stripping him of all of his kindness and softness in the process. Because I guess a character cannot be gentle and kind AND masculine. Only fem characters are allowed to have a character trait as soft as kindness.

If that wasn't bad enough, they also stripped him of any flaw that could be perceived as emasculating. His well-established avoidance and cowardice? His insecurity and passivity? His people pleasing tendencies and self-loathing? His devotion to Dumbledore and his deep admiration (and perhaps envy) for James and Sirius? All gone. Doesn't exist. Fanon Remus is the coolest, smartest, bravest, and most capable of all the Marauders.

Even his appearance was completely altered to ensure that Fanon Remus is just oozing with raw, unfiltered masculinity. This is a topic I am especially heated about as someone who is chronically ill. I relate deeply to Remus because I see my own struggles in the ways his Lycanthropy affects him. It makes him sickly and pallid, he is described as thin and worn down, both from the effects of the disease itself and later from the struggle of keeping himself fed and housed due to the stigma surrounding it.

But Fanon Remus? He's huge. He's buff. He towers over everyone else around him, intimidating and aloof with a cigarette hanging idly between his lips for optimum sex appeal. He is so strong, with his broad shoulders and his rock hard abs, and his Lycanthropy just makes him super fucking aggressive and horny around the full moon. He can lift Sirius up over his head with one arm. He's the Casanova, everyone wants him because he's just so hot and so cool. The fact that he is a werewolf only serves to elevate his primal, masculine allure.

[transenbyconfessions]

(ftm he/they)

when i look for trans people online i see all these awesome trans guys with muscles and hoodies and short hair and beards, and no hate to them! i’m so proud of them for being who they are! but…i don’t want to be a manly man, i want to be a pretty boy. i want to be a boy and wear makeup and dresses! i want to be a boy and still be cute and pretty and feminine!

but i’m scared that it’ll make me seem like less of a boy. i’m scared that no one would see me as a “real” boy if i’m feminine. even though i am a boy.

Submitted July 15, 2023

[finngualart]

the winternight trilogy has me frothing at the mouth and i wanted to try and capture some of the characters

[ask-garymiller]

gary do you shapeshift into a girl? have you shapeshifted into a girl? will you shapeshift into a girl? when will you shapeshift into a girl?

What does a girl look like, anyway? I could already be a woman right now. You'd never know.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

hey can we please get more normal about masculine women. can we stop calling middle school girls who prefer masculine clothes or don't like make-up "pick me"s. can we stop acting like any healthy expression of masculinity from a girl is automatically internalized misogyny.

and while we're at it, can we stop acting like all girls understand each other. can we stop acting like all girls feel comfortable in women's spaces.

i want and need everyone to understand that when you say "girls who don't wear make-up are just looking for male validation", you're not just hurting girls who are actually doing that, you're also hurting girls who can't afford make-up, girls who can't wear make-up because of sensory issues, and girls who don't wear make-up just because they don't want to.

i completely get wanting to call out women who put other women down for male validation, and i encourage doing it when you see it actually being done, but attaching that stereotype onto a specific gender expression is harmful.

[spiritfeelingspiritfelt]

I got a new patch made. What do you think?

I’ve grown to be quite proud of my ancestral roots that lay before and beyond the colonially enforced two-way gender system of European culture. Most cultures have a history of acknowledging masculinity and femininity and focusesed on the connections.

They never had a need for the man woman language that concentrates on segregation/individualism= binary identities.

That’s why it was so easy for them to hold space and hear those who flexed masculinity and femininity in ways the majority may not have. As their perspective was not a limited one, like the two way gender system was built to be. This enabled the ability to see and engage with the entire spectrum.

I’ve learnt first hand how the binary perspective coaxes a dangerous arrogance one of ownership. (As we know this also tends to be patriarchal). To own ones labels and own all others. Whereas the indigenous histories with their perspectives of masculine and feminine energies permit a more symbiotic view rather than individualistic-

you do not own an identity so much as you are part of a certain energy- you occupy a space within a spectrum and as much as you may get to know your own space, there will always be something to learn of all the others. The latter has always made much more instinctual sense to me.

It feels empowering now, and certainly radical, to find ways to display my understanding where it is still mocked as some new meaningless invention. Whilst acknowledging that of all the silenced ancestors who expressed and embodied such knowledge for eons longer, in a world and time that now only acknowledges languages that wrote our ways of being out of any definitions.

[lilydvoratrelundar]

"Nothing will help us. That bore's going to blast any minute and we'll all be roasted alive."

Giffing Pertwee Who - Inferno: Episode 6

[girlkisserr]

[lopeach]

i get why ppl are upset abt the murderbot casting and i feel it a little too but yall know that masculine ppl can be agender too right? yall know that agender (nonbinary in general) people can and very much are able to be masculine and its not just woman+ ,,,,,right?

[crimescrimson]

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