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Sitting in a pub having a pint over a bowl of their kick ass chili watching Womens Gymnastics and this thought occurred to me. (hexbear.net)

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When I was young (early nineties) I remember among all the other internalized queerphobia one thing even then I found very silly:

Mens Gymnastics (especially at lower levels) was always made the butt of jokes by toxic masculinity but my sister got to a point where was getting so jacked she could definitely kick my ass and she was 4 years younger and I was definitely pretty athletic from skateboarding.

Male gymnasts could very easily kick average chuds ass savagely.

TL;DR AGAB all gymnasts are Badasses. Terrifying even, if you think about it.

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was someone who was pretty easy to shame as a kid, but I remember there was one time in high school where it came up that I went to a gymnastics place as a little kid as many little kids do, and one of my peers tried to ridicule me for it, and it just didn't register as something that it made sense to feel shame about at all for a litany of reasons even though they were really insistent on it. It was just kind of funny and it might have helped me to understand how that sort of attitude is bullshit more generally. While I wish I never had our culture of shame impressed upon me, I'm glad that I was able to get out of it relatively early.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 3 points 15 hours ago

Good for you. I didn't even come to terms with my own complicated relationship with gender till my mid 30s.