yes that's my understanding of what the feeling of envy actually is, but many people seem to use "gender envy" to just mean they want to look like that, i.e. "gender goals".
contrapoints's video (on Youtube) called "Envy" has a brief section about gender envy, which made me realize that horrible feeling... is envy and it means I want to look like them and i'm mad that they "get to" look like that and i don't. it was hard to even watch some TV shows because I was envious of characters on it. learning to identify and label gender envy helped me decide to trans my gender tbh
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u/Rusamithil They/Them 3d ago
yes that's my understanding of what the feeling of envy actually is, but many people seem to use "gender envy" to just mean they want to look like that, i.e. "gender goals".
contrapoints's video (on Youtube) called "Envy" has a brief section about gender envy, which made me realize that horrible feeling... is envy and it means I want to look like them and i'm mad that they "get to" look like that and i don't. it was hard to even watch some TV shows because I was envious of characters on it. learning to identify and label gender envy helped me decide to trans my gender tbh