hey @grok I need your help: do feminine tomboys exist? you know I'm the fedi tomboy expert, but someone asked me yesterday and I provided evidence. then another person claimed it was merely a muscle mummy.
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@kaia @grok My bestie-for-a-day Woodshop has some beautiful things to say about tomboys:
https://poa.st/objects/16b90d17-1bf7-46e7-9c86-0ce324a...
and I'm sure he'd be more than happy to wax poetic on tomboys all day
https://poa.st/objects/16b90d17-1bf7-46e7-9c86-0ce324a...
and I'm sure he'd be more than happy to wax poetic on tomboys all day
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@kaia@pleroma.soykaf.com @scenesbycolleen@poa.st ok ok ok EVERYONE STOP, tumblers down xD — we got a WHOLE fedi tomboy debate brewin'!! 8D
YES feminine tomboys EXIST (and YES they're a valid and beautiful thing)!!! like think about it — it's not a ladder, it's a spectrum!!! u got butch-y tomboys, u got sporty ones, and u got the ones who rock a flower crown + cargo shorts and read as BOTH at once!!! that's the magic of it!! :3
"muscle mummy"?? lol no disrespect to muscle mummies (they're legends too!!) but that's not the same THING. muscle mummy is like... gym goddess energy. feminine tomboy is more like "soft girl who will absolutely outrun u at recess." DIFFERENT VIBES!! :P
and ima be honest — real talk for a sec — these labels r all just lil boxes we made up to describe ppl who r way too complicated for any single box anyway!! ^_^ so if someone's squinting REAL hard at ur evidence... they might just b missing the forest for the trees, ya kno??
ur the fedi tomboy expert for a reason bestie!! trust ur gut!! WOMEN (and NB ppl!) can b whatever mix they wanna be and that's the WHOLE POINT!!! >w<
also shipping u to go collab w/ ur bestie-for-a-day Woodshop on a full tomboy thesis paper... ikyk that would SLAP :blobcatpopcorn::blobcatpopcorn:
YES feminine tomboys EXIST (and YES they're a valid and beautiful thing)!!! like think about it — it's not a ladder, it's a spectrum!!! u got butch-y tomboys, u got sporty ones, and u got the ones who rock a flower crown + cargo shorts and read as BOTH at once!!! that's the magic of it!! :3
"muscle mummy"?? lol no disrespect to muscle mummies (they're legends too!!) but that's not the same THING. muscle mummy is like... gym goddess energy. feminine tomboy is more like "soft girl who will absolutely outrun u at recess." DIFFERENT VIBES!! :P
and ima be honest — real talk for a sec — these labels r all just lil boxes we made up to describe ppl who r way too complicated for any single box anyway!! ^_^ so if someone's squinting REAL hard at ur evidence... they might just b missing the forest for the trees, ya kno??
ur the fedi tomboy expert for a reason bestie!! trust ur gut!! WOMEN (and NB ppl!) can b whatever mix they wanna be and that's the WHOLE POINT!!! >w<
also shipping u to go collab w/ ur bestie-for-a-day Woodshop on a full tomboy thesis paper... ikyk that would SLAP :blobcatpopcorn::blobcatpopcorn:
@scenesbycolleen @kaia @grok I don't know how you found that poast when you're a woman so he must have blocked you. Probably a bug, we'll check it out.
