Cait the Encourageable on Nostr: A thought, about girl talk. I note how often - and I've done this too - I hear trans ...
A thought, about girl talk.
I note how often - and I've done this too - I hear trans women saying with excitement about how they were just chatting with a cis woman, and how it was just girl talk, and how great that was.
And on one hand, I'm like, yeah, it's great when that happens, happy for you, genuinely.
But on the gripping hand, I'm like, yeah, it's too bad we don't recognize that *when a group of trans women talk, that is by definition "girl talk"*. And in my experience, the topics aren't much different. Every day I read about this in various trans-focused Discord servers or here on Fedi, and it makes me just a little sad that we have to reach for the validation of cis people to make it real for us.
We count too, my loves. We count too.
I note how often - and I've done this too - I hear trans women saying with excitement about how they were just chatting with a cis woman, and how it was just girl talk, and how great that was.
And on one hand, I'm like, yeah, it's great when that happens, happy for you, genuinely.
But on the gripping hand, I'm like, yeah, it's too bad we don't recognize that *when a group of trans women talk, that is by definition "girl talk"*. And in my experience, the topics aren't much different. Every day I read about this in various trans-focused Discord servers or here on Fedi, and it makes me just a little sad that we have to reach for the validation of cis people to make it real for us.
We count too, my loves. We count too.