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2026-03-24 11:06 UTC

@madargon @enby_of_the_apocalypse I grew up in the eighties environmental movement. Part of that was the idea to let take nature it's course and a lot of holistic medicine. So periods and the accompanying pain were seen as something natural letting women getting in touch with their bodies. So not wanting them was in itself a failure at womanhood. In a society that knew only to genders and me definitely not being a man.

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@madargon@is-a.cat 2026-03-24 11:27

@Zahlenzauberin @enby_of_the_apocalypse sounds almost like "natural" fetish among anti-vaxxers... Here in Poland I also could sense kind of "natural womanhood" cult. Menstrual suppression is almost secret arcane knowledge, I learned about it accidentally. "It just has to hurt" (even if real medical science currently says it shouldn't... And well, endometriosis or other problems are often diagnosed late, after years of suffering). I always failed in any thing "expected" from women. But I just couldn't force myself to pretend to care about them. I saw most social dynamics like a competion for a prizes which I wasn't interested in... Damn, it would turn out all my society-avoiding life was indirect result of unacknowledged dysphoria...

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