However another (male) participant in the disussion felt the need to comment: "You are way to masculine for me, I couldn't be in a relationship with you."
I was very tempted to answer: "Luckaly, I don't date wimps."
Nevertheless this guy totally missed my point! I'm no more or less a woman because I'm a chemist. The same goes for police officers, construction workers or politicians. Even if you have a job typical for men, that doesn't make you a man.
Sounds pretty logical, but isn't for most.
The same logic actually applies if it's the other way around. A male nurse is no less a man than a male truck driver.
In the perfect world people would be able to look past first impressions and accept that the world is multifaceted and so are the people in it. That's what makes it fun.
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Masculinity and femininity don't surface through jobs or Hobbies. It presents itselve through behavior and thinking. It is the way you show yourselve that makes people feel your masculine/feminin aura. And this feeling is compressed with distance and can't be nurtured properly through texts in a Forum. A male nurse can of cource be seen as a very masculine guy as well as you, that i now, still are a feminine chemist with a black belt in jiu-jitsu.
SvarSlet