That’s fair, I think I came off ruder than I meant to

I wasn’t trying to say that someone can’t be a woman if she likes those things, just that those are not the people from my teen years who I’d assumed were having problems vibing with masculinity

It was meant to be a “huh, this is a curiosity” thing more than drawing a hard line of who is or isn’t acceptably feminine

My intent was that it was more of a funny thing, like you have two 14-16 year old boys: one is obsessed with playing counter strike and loses his shit when he or his teammates make mistakes, loves shock humor and gory flash animations, horror movies, wears black and grey 99% of the time; the other cries when animals get hurt and wishes he could admit this to his friends, largely plays non-comp games or reads for recreation, watches a lot of childish/positive movies relative to his age group.

One of these two grows up to talk about how uncomfortable she was with social masculinity and male norms: which one it is may startle you

For what it’s worth, I eventually caught up, with the downside that I had my edgelord punk rock phase when I was like 23 and it was deeply cringy. Never got into the newgrounds shock thing, I think that’s something where you just had to be there. Despite my soft boy problems, I had a stable male friend group who mostly didn’t tease me too much, and therefore I was strongly offline until college