[323/365] happy international men's day
Nov. 19th, 2021 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistToday is the first International Men's Day where I have felt like it might be anything to do with me.
Thank you to the men and masc people who've introspected about their gender and decided, whether cis or trans, to embrace manhood. You've shown me it isn't all toxic and unemotional and aggressive and hurtful to everyone it comes into contact with.
Thanks to those who've made me feel welcome with my new name this year and my increasingly defaulting to he/him pronouns (the others aren't wrong but, well my new favorite spatial metaphor to describe gender goes, I'm one of those people who "may use one set of pronouns because that’s where they pick up their mail and it’s convenient"). But especially thanks to those who've made masculinity a thing I feel welcome to investigate and visit and maybe now set up some kind of home in, or at least a P.O. box.
Thank you to the men and masc people who've introspected about their gender and decided, whether cis or trans, to embrace manhood. You've shown me it isn't all toxic and unemotional and aggressive and hurtful to everyone it comes into contact with.
Thanks to those who've made me feel welcome with my new name this year and my increasingly defaulting to he/him pronouns (the others aren't wrong but, well my new favorite spatial metaphor to describe gender goes, I'm one of those people who "may use one set of pronouns because that’s where they pick up their mail and it’s convenient"). But especially thanks to those who've made masculinity a thing I feel welcome to investigate and visit and maybe now set up some kind of home in, or at least a P.O. box.