Another picture of me in new clothing!

[stormdog]

I wore my new apron to make dinner today.

I still have a deep inner conflict between

*feeling that our social construction of gender, even as a spectrum between masc and fem, is both irrational and a significant form of oppression for so many people, and feeling like the whole concept should be abolished

*finding that doing/having frilly girl things (and adopting many other trappings of binary Western femininity) makes me ridiculously happy

But making choices that are rational and ignore my emotions led to me making some of the worst decisions of my life. Lately, I am pursuing the irrational joy, at least sometimes, over rationality. I can see that joy on my face here, and it's worth it.

Comments

[cmcmck]

And it's worth recalling that the whole point of aprons of whatever style is to prevent nice clothes from getting messed up and that goes for both sexes. :o)

[stormdog]

That is definitely true! Though this apron is so cute I don't want to get it dirty either.

[cmcmck]

Although it looks as if it'll wash okay.

[stormdog]

I hope so. I'm sure I'm going to get something on it sooner or later!

[sabotabby]

That's one of my favourite colour combinations, though I seldom wear things that aren't black. Serious cottagecore fae vibes (positive).

[stormdog]

I like pinks, and I like floral prints! The blue is nice too.

I'm glad you like it!