DiscussionGender drama story on NPR this morning

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[–]Tikiri 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I googled her, and though I can see how she may not look stereotypically “feminine”, I don’t think she looks like a man. To me, she looks like a woman who wears more masculine clothing/hairstyle/etc.

And I can kind of understand why she’d feel hurt. I’m a straight woman and have been mistaken for a man (it was the ‘90s and that whole Seattle grunge/lumberjack look was huge, and I was not a girly-girl), and it did hurt ... at least, a little bit. It made me realize how fixated society can be on gender stereotypes, which still makes me angry.

I just hope she doesn’t get so upset by it that she ends up questioning her womanhood, or get gaslit into thinking that “maybe she’s really a man” or some horrific lie like that, which TRAs seem to relish forcing on gender-nonconforming women.

[–]JulienMayfair[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe it's a difference of opinion, but I think in certain of her photos, she could be mistaken for a man. I think we've all, at one time or another, seen someone, say, in the grocery store and haven't been able to tell right off if the person is a man or a woman. Beckham admits it herself in the interview.

Also, Beckham notes that she was carrying her niece on her shoulders, which is more of a stereotypically "dad" thing to do.