It's quite okay if you talk about yourself - you have interesting things to say. It makes me think... I suspect that the reason I've always felt as though my breasts were too large for my mental image is because I tend to prefer an androgynous look, myself. I had recently gotten my hair cut 'Roman boy short' as Eor called it (clipped at the back of my neck so that the enemy can't grab it, like a Centurian ;)), I rarely wear makeup (except when I'm playing dressup, sometimes) and I adore flannel shirts.
I suspect people at work might think that I'm trying to look more dyky (I fear that reaction especially from my coworker, V., the very cute dyke who I mentored - she might think I'm trying to look like her!), but it's just how I feel comfortable. I used to wear a man's tie at work, and V. commented one time that she didn't think she'd be allowed to do that because she was so flat chested that people would really mistake her FOR a guy, which could cause problems.
And let's not even get into how many times people have said to me - with surprise, because the breasts fooled them - "You're so NOT a girl!" It's not only my attitude about clothes and makeup, but the ungirly thing goes into most parts of my mental structure. But I'm still far from being a guy, really, even though Eor has often (fondly) called me 'a guy with breasts.'
So, yeah. I see it as a kind of disconnect between what society is trying to tell me I should be and what I just naturally am. But it would all go back to Sociology for me, that was my major. ;)
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Date: 2008-10-14 07:53 pm (UTC)I suspect people at work might think that I'm trying to look more dyky (I fear that reaction especially from my coworker, V., the very cute dyke who I mentored - she might think I'm trying to look like her!), but it's just how I feel comfortable. I used to wear a man's tie at work, and V. commented one time that she didn't think she'd be allowed to do that because she was so flat chested that people would really mistake her FOR a guy, which could cause problems.
And let's not even get into how many times people have said to me - with surprise, because the breasts fooled them - "You're so NOT a girl!" It's not only my attitude about clothes and makeup, but the ungirly thing goes into most parts of my mental structure. But I'm still far from being a guy, really, even though Eor has often (fondly) called me 'a guy with breasts.'
So, yeah. I see it as a kind of disconnect between what society is trying to tell me I should be and what I just naturally am. But it would all go back to Sociology for me, that was my major. ;)