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practically speaking, it's okay and probably good to deny yourself womanhood because you can’t see yourself meeting some expectation others have set
phrasing stolen from quoted skeet on the skyline
well yknow maybe practical for certain purposes, claiming it before you've earned it might encourage you to live up to the category. or it might do the reverse. so it's whatever really
mainly i just find the validation-before-action approach to be unsatisfying and inaccurate