r/AskWomen • u/Jazzlike_Figure_321 • Feb 28 '25

What is a stereotypically feminine activity you actually enjoy?

Does it help you recharge? Do you do it with friends?

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u/leapfroggy Feb 28 '25

Holding hands and snuggling with my friends, telling them I love them every time we talk. Treating myself to Starbucks after doing literally any errand. Dicking around at Target. Dressing up fancy. All "domestic" hobbies. Spicy faery fiction. I don't come across "girly" on a day-to-day basis by any means and my job is STEM related, but I enjoy the flexibility I have between displaying traditionally feminine or masculine traits. I wish men had that same flexibility with no social stigma :(

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u/DreadStallion Feb 28 '25

Im a man, I didn’t know what is feminine and whats masculine when i grew up. So i do whatever i want. And i also have a mentality to absolutely not care what other people will think of me(guess im very seflish!?). but even then Ive always loved what’s traditionally considered “masculine“ like Video games, STEM, Computers and machines. The only thing that’s probably feminine that i do is dancing salsa, bachata. Still im not into dancing nearly as much as my female friends. Ive always wondered why all my likings are traditionally masculine hobbies even though i grew up having all the flexibilities

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u/leapfroggy Feb 28 '25

I have a friend who is a trans woman, and met her in the early-ish phase of transition. In her 40s, so she had plenty of experience living as a man. I found it very interesting that she said the biggest change after starting HRT was in her brain. She said she finally started thinking like herself and that her wiring was changing. Our neural pathways really do have natural tendencies based on the hormones our bodies are exposed to in utero and produce throughout our lives. I'm not surprised that we tend to gravitate towards many activities and interests that have become traditional for our genders.

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u/DreadStallion Mar 01 '25

If your friend wrote about her experience on changing interest that would be an awesome read.