Who-I-am vs. What-I-like

[mykell]

I am saying though that for me and for most people at large, we do not experience gender conflict and so we don't think of ourselves as having masculine or feminine tendencies as you described above. We just see ourselves as having interests and personality traits that fall within the very wide range of what is socially deemed "acceptable" (for lack of a better term) for women and men. Women think of themselves as women and men think of themselves as men, no matter what they enjoy doing.

hi reine,
we experience gender conflict by societies default expectation of what a man represents, as with my previous post i enjoy following womens fashion and applying it into my life but did so secretively till a few years ago....i enjoy many other interests and personality traits which would be considered male and female so for me if fundamentally i accepted this when younger i would have been likely to grow up with a Steve Tyler look that was maybe a bit more female if societal acceptance was in play and would dress how i preferred doing these tasks, this is who i am....this is what i like, i just hide it because of family and societies taboos of it....without that no gender conflict for me....society deemed us unacceptable....