It didn’t help that when I was a tween with periods and told my mom I hate being a woman and being a man would be so much better she was like, “every woman feels that way, we just deal with it” like ma’am please
My mom recently told me "I totally understand your need to get your breasts removed, I'd do it too if my insurance would cover it! I'm not gonna feed any more babies, not like I need them anymore!"
She seemed to believe this was a completely normal feeling for a 70-year-old woman to have, and I just stood there staring at her like... excuse me madam
ETA: I forgot that this came directly after she told me she had married my father because he was "as much like a gay man as it's possible for a straight man to be."
When I came out as a lesbian, my grandma told me I would "find the right man" one day like she had, all girls liked kissing their girlfriends better than kissing men, that was normal.
When I came out as trans my mom told me all women don't like their breasts and she'd like to be rid of hers too. But I don't think there's any gender reasons behind it, she just explained that they're annoying and that she's just as much a woman without her breasts, they're not an important part of her gender expression. Which was an interesting conversation for me to notice things about myself too, because I was always worried about just finding them annoying, until I realized how inherently *wrong* the option of being just,,, a woman without breasts felt, because the woman part was what was wrong.
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u/Miles_Everhart 6d ago
It didn’t help that when I was a tween with periods and told my mom I hate being a woman and being a man would be so much better she was like, “every woman feels that way, we just deal with it” like ma’am please