It’s very interesting to see this perspective (as someone who has grown up in the USA, things aren’t/weren’t super gender specific (at least from a societal standpoint). From elementary to high school, I hung out with people regardless of gender.
I do fr relate with the whole, hating the gendered stuff. Growin up, I hated wearing dresses (cuz they were revealing and I had a little incident when I wore a dress as kid, so that situation turned me off to the idea of wearing a dress if I had the option to wear pants instead)
I’ve always been more on the tomboyish side (I even made friends with guys easier) and I distinctly remember two instances where the gender stuff really made me upset/left an impact on me
- On Christmas, I got a doll that I didn’t like, to the point where I had it be put in my parent’s closet and it was never seen again
- On another Christmas, years later, I got this thin yellow dress shirt, I didn’t like it, but was told that cuz I was a girl, I should wear girly things
Tbh, those might’ve been the only times the whole boy vs girl thing was made so clear to me? At school, no one really cared it felt like, or it wasn’t put on a massive spotlight like it was at home therefore it seemed less important or smthn.
I’m not even nonbinary or trans, or on that spectrum yet I’ve had days where I’ve thought “damn, i wish I was a guy” and then later think “thank god I’m a girl”
I feel like it’s normal to have those kinds of thoughts every now and again. “The grass is always greener on the other side” type of deal I think.
I still fr hate things being separated by gender tho, in this day and age. Both girls and boys like super heroes, if I can’t have Spider-Man underwear, let me AT LEAST have spider Gwen undies or smthn
Same with pretty much everything else. There’s so many female superheroes, how is there NOT merch with them? Genuinely makes no sense.