There are also lots of Mulan-type stories about afab people who pretend to be men for a period of time in order to do something they wouldn’t have been able to do as a woman, then go back to living as women.
A bit like the older practice of women writers using abbreviated names or pseudonyms when publishing books because books written by men sold better.
It’s crazy to me how unnecessarily gendered so many different industries still are, too. Professional cooking is still dominated by men but cooking at home is womanly. It makes no sense and it’s maddening.
![[Transfem meme] egg_irl](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/4303ee36-3081-4df4-a532-4ad70e5dc1e8.webp){kind=link}
A bit like the older practice of women writers using abbreviated names or pseudonyms when publishing books because books written by men sold better.
It’s crazy to me how unnecessarily gendered so many different industries still are, too. Professional cooking is still dominated by men but cooking at home is womanly. It makes no sense and it’s maddening.