This is the boy who was forced to show his abs when he was a minor and he clearly asked against it. Boy spent hours in the gym cause the killing part of their debut song was his body. This is the boy who spent years racking up those muscles and keeping up the “masculine” aura Bighit asked of him.
This is the boy who didn’t let fans put flower crowns on his head at one point in his life. This boy right here, used to wear Snapbacks and carry himself in totally opposite ways of what his personality and essence have been from day one just cause that’s what was expected of him.
This is the boy who is so gentle and so delicate in his essence and in the way he carries himself, that it really baffles me how he had to put up with people and their gender roles and how “masculinity” looks like. The fact that he had to act like a strong “man” for all these years to fit society’s expectations of what a man should be like, talk like, look like. Ugh. He has spent years trying to be a bullshit, overrated conception of masculinity that he so clearly is above.
Jimin by nature, is soft kind caring and delicate; ethereal if I may, and that has nothing to do with masculine or feminine so keep your uneducated ass out of my boy’s life. The fact that he had to cover his oversized sweaters and sweater paws with chains, abs and snapbacks is the very reason that I’m literally crying because of what he has said here. It was a long hard way to self acceptance but hasn’t Jimin always been about taking up challenges?
My love, now that you are proud enough to just be yourself, you should know that you are what you are and what you are will always be way more than enough. You don’t need to be what they want you to be for people to love you. Gender roles ain’t shit when you’ve got a heart of gold, Park Jimin.
You’re the strongest mf I’ve ever seen and the fact that you can take a man down in every sense that there is;
the man you are Jimin, is someone I’ll always be proud of.
His lil’ smile when he says “I can just be myself”. Catch me sobbing at 4am every night thinking about this.
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