hi. hello. message for the girls who talk about wanting to be friends with guys the way guys are friends with guys, girls who see mlm relationships and wish they could have a relationship like that, lesbian girls who want to date other girls but in a "masc" way, girls who want to be like their favorite male characters, girls who "wish they could be fem the way men are fem", etc:
hi. its okay to be a man. its okay to be a boy and to want to be a boy and to love being masculine and a man and a guy. you dont have to be a trans man to be transmasculine (butchness is a beautiful thing), or even masculine in general, but it is okay to be a man. im sorry if people online or even in your real life have made you feel ashamed about it, i'm sorry that people have framed masculinity as undesirable, i'm sorry rad "feminists" told you that being a man is something awful. masculinity isn't inherently toxic, masculinity can mean whatever you connect with.
but most of all if nobody has told you this yet if you want to be a boy you can just be a boy. im dead serious. its genuinely objectively okay to be a man. ily. take care