enoughtohold:

having short hair doesn’t make me basically a man
not wearing makeup or shaving my legs doesn’t make me basically a man
rarely or never wearing skirts doesn’t make me basically a man
preferring underwear, shoes or other clothes marketed as “men’s” doesn’t make me basically a man
working in stem (science, technology, engineering or math) doesn’t make me basically a man
being talented at logic and “systematizing” doesn’t make me basically a man
loving women doesn’t make me basically a man
taking up space doesn’t make me basically a man
being assertive doesn’t make me basically a man

all of these things put together still don’t make me basically a man

women are discouraged from and punished for doing these things, but women have done them anyway for as long as it’s been possible, and we always will.

all of these are wonderful and entirely legitimate ways to be a woman. don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.