gluten-free-pussy:

I feel like in a way, the vast majority of women have some form of gender dysphoria because gender/femininity has impacted every facet of our lives. Femininity is such a tight noose; nobody can ever truly fit the ideal of what a woman “should be” but will be punished for not trying hard enough to achieve it. Throw in things like race, weight, culture, and religion and it’s a big fucking mess. So many of us have spent years trying to change our bodies (diets, surgery, makeup etc) that it’s no wonder we have such a disconnect to it. We’ve had to chase an ideal just to survive that in the end none of us even know what we look like or who we are. I’ve spent a little over 10 years battling with anorexia, bulimia, and an addiction to exercise. I see my body not even as my body but as a thing I constantly need to fix, something deeply flawed. If you asked me what I even looked like, I couldn’t tell you because I’m that disconnected from it.