Sometimes I wonder if things like the hexbear bouncing cat emotes are a bit twee and cringe, but then I see the aesthetics the other side has run with…
I like the cat emotes. I want more girly stuff on here to balance out the edge. :cri:
I don’t read the little meows as girly at all. but they are cute :meow-melt:
Maybe I have too narrow a definition of “girly”, but I think that emote’s aesthetic is more “cutesy” than specifically “girly”.
I fully support both to balance out the edge and appreciate cute things especially, such as :kitty-cri-texas:
Decades of trying to reeducate myself about what I’m allowed to like, leave it to Chapos to bring me right back to the start :agony-deep:
I was in a rush, there’s just a shortage of anything not-cishet-dudes in the emoji picker. Cool enby stuff and fem/soft boy stuff would be just as much of a pleasant change. There’s lots of ways to be any gender but “man in suit” is what we can post normally. :glucker:
Edit: I was also attempting to push back on the idea that the blobcats are cringe, because there’s a general trend in pop culture to view anything cute or “for girls” as more cringe than edgy “boy” stuff. Pop culture would view them as “girly” even if queer people and allies like us wouldn’t. I don’t think it’s very fair and erases the ability of non-masc people to express themselves. Most of the time when I post, I feel like I have to de-emphasize feelings I have irl to kind of fall in line with norms that enforce emotional distance and a certain ironic machismo. It’s only when I get deep in a comment thread where I start sounding like myself.
Hey, if it’s not hurting anyone, you’re allowed to like it as far as I’m concerned :heart-sickle: . I was just raising a point about taxonomy.
There’s nothing wrong with women liking “boyish” things, right? So men liking “girly” things should be fair game too!
