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[–]terfy_delight 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is a great interpretation and I agree! Society sees men as people, and women as not men.

If a woman does not conform to femininity then she is an othered woman, or an othered other.

I've experienced this and I've described it as a being a wrong woman. But there's no place for women like me in "man" or "masculine." It also explains why society is more focused on making feminine males into women (bc they're just "not men"). Women who aren't feminine don't have a place at all, bc we're never going to be considered men. It explains the difference in how TW and TM are seen and treated. TW are being forced into the woman category and TM are an afterthought that nobody seriously believes are men.