The Dynamics of Tumblr

I think just especially for females for some reason, I mean true for males too. There's something that really appeals to young girls, especially on Tumblr, about taking all of your teenage angst and kind of funneling it into this very romanticized, idealized, almost spiritual way of handling it. So similarly to like the kind of self-harm thing, now it's like the same mechanism of people doing that but it's with gender dysphoria. And so you have these girls just like very overtly romanticizing the fact that they're trans and how hard it is to be trans or wear their binders for 16 hours a day and it hurts and they can't breathe but they do it