How does that work if you've only been a hot girl for half of your life? Asking for a friend of course.

Probably not the person you might want answering this, but I'll share my two cents anyway:

I believe men are somehow shit outta luck if not conforming to the strong, tall, muscular, athletic and handsome ideal that seems to be peak masculinity. Although there seems to be an improvement on that front. Further normalising the androgynous look is going to help a lot of transmasc people feel less anxiety about passing. Not in the least because some of these aspects about the general beauty standard for men are unrealistic, even for cis men.

As for me, I'm more than happy to contribute to normalise the androgynous look. I've never been happier with my appearance than since I've been experimenting with incorporating more feminine traits. Growing my hair out, getting a more feminine haircut, dyeing my hair, braiding my hair, removing body hair, styling eyebrows, that sort of thing. Oh, and most important of all, just doing all of this while never elaborating on it. It's always just "hey this is my new thing, I will not be taking questions on this".

I feel like men should not be denied those sorts of thing while still being considered men. And all of us should be free to pursue our own beauty standards. Now to make society submit to those truths...

Yeah "there are no girls on the internet" kinda thing. Joking aside though, keep in mind that n=370 and sampling from c/Trans probably doesn't give significant results for the fediverse as a whole. Though it is an interesting result.

The average European can merely dream of experiencing the freedom to inhale a microburger.

That's okay, the average American can merely dream of experiencing the culture of inhaling all our different junk food fumes. So that makes us even?

Rain makes the street smell faintly of clay.

(petrichor)

Or, you know, as others have pointed out before... you use the hacksaw... right? The thing that is actually designed for cutting through metal... to just saw the freaking restraints or the thing they're attached to!

(Can't remember if the movie plot actually has a fix for this loophole, the damn movie came out 20! years ago!)

Definitely still figuring that out. All I know for sure is that there is some degree of fem in it.

Even though it makes no sense at all, it does feel like the clock is ticking sometimes. That I need to hurry up and figure it out.

Titties are a universal love language.

Even straight women admire boobies to a surprising degree.

Yeah, I'm with Chloe on this one.

So happy for you!

Seems like you got the identity part figured out. The hard part is getting to feel comfortable being yourself within your environment. This part of the internet is a safe place, but it also provides a false sense of security. Real life is where the real battle is, and a lot of us are probably going through the exact same thing where real life is either too scary or too unfriendly for you to feel comfortable as yourself right now. At least that's what it's like for me.

Digital hygiene is actually the reason I started a dedicated account here, to fully express myself on some topics that I might not want others digging through my post history for. Though the ultimate goal is no longer needing this account.

Spend as much time as you can doing stuff that makes you feel pretty. Everyone deserves to look in a mirror and to smile at their own reflection!

Yeah, was about to say if the dream is driving Hotwheels cars across any breasts, why not grow your own?

If it has to be someone else's, your solution sounds reasonable.

Not going to argue wth you on the bad, the world is definitely not in a good place right now.

But most of it seems like symptoms, rather than cause. Culture wars are being used to divide and conquer, the same is true for warmongering tyrants that seem to invest heavily in foreign disruption tactics and hybrid warfare in an attempt to get the rest of the world off their backs.

All this civil unrest leads to fear, competition over resources and therefore less solidarity overall. Getting rid of the people deliberately causing chaos would probably fix a lot of it.