'Masculinity and motherhood can co-exist and it’s not that deep.' 👏itsarifitz shares.
— and in embracing her masculinity and watching family and friends embrace it as well, she tells Refinery29, she lost touch with the idea that something society codifies as purely feminine, like pregnancy, is even possible for bodies like hers., Frankie Smith, getting pregnant to jolt Fitz out of that idea and to make her think about the intersections of masculinity and pregnancy.
"The images are not anyone who would look like myself or my friends," Fitz tells Refinery29."They're all of a girl in a flowy dress with her boyfriend or husband and she’s in nature and she has a flower crown." You know the type. She's right. The fact that Smith is a cisgender woman who has always wanted a baby and decided with her partner that she would get pregnant is not a difficult concept to grasp. Yet, when people look at Smith in her snapbacks and men's jeans they have trouble connecting her pregnancy to her identity as a butch woman.
Fitz theorizes that Smith and masculine pregnant women like her get weird looks or confuse people because those people essentially think of them as men. The problem, she says, is that people struggle to understand intersectionality."There are people who will embrace your masculinity, but they do it through the knowledge of male-hood," Fitz says."People think in their minds that they're accepting, but they’re fitting you into the box that they understand.
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