Anonymous thoughts about femininity.
The requirements that arrived before you could evaluate them.
Softness, accommodation, appearance — performed for rooms that enforce them.
Who you are when the performance is finally off.
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Femininity, as socially constructed, is a set of requirements delivered without consent. Softness, smallness, accommodation, emotional availability — performed for rooms that enforce them through subtle and not-so-subtle mechanisms. Most women are fluent in the performance. The question of who exists underneath it is something else entirely.
Anonymous thoughts about femininity posted here are from people who have been performing since before they understood what the performance was — and what it's like to reckon with what they actually are versus what was required.