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My friends only talk about men and looks
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I'm 27f

I have to get this out of my system so bear with me. Without trying to sound like a pick-me, I want to address specific behaviours that women are socialized to accept, that I believe are just awful. So I was out with my female best friend yesterday - I love her a lot, been friends for years and she's one of the most well-read curious intelligent people I know. She's also fuckin hilarious. However, in the past year, her behaviour has become more "stereotypically female" for lack of a better term. She keeps talking about "accepting her femininity" which apparently means talking about men, sex and how she looks every single time we meet. This is draining and whenever I try to steer the topic to something like movies, books, politics etc. it just feels like talking to a wall because I get no response. My other female friends in the group are similar and I think it's because we live in a pretty backwards traditional country. I really miss having a female friend that shares my hobbies and that understands that being a pretty doll isn't everything in life. I'm a huge martial arts and video game geek, so I stand out when I'm with them and I tend to feel like shit because they allude that I'm the "weird one" and that I should be more "feminine". It's disappointing because I've spent YEARS telling men that women aren't really like that, so seeing them act like a stereotype irks me and makes me angry. Not to mention that they're not even happy being obsessed with men and steering every conversation into "who slid into their dms".

I just hate it, I always think about women as being strong, physically and mentally but when I see other women enforcing everything else, it makes me feel like shit. I'm just exhausted. I know it's easier to be accepted when you fit into conventional standards, but it's damn boring

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