Androcomplacency
The urge that some female-born people have to seek and gain male approval, usually cisgender heterosexual men.
Molly: Sis, stop it. You know you don't need em to accept you for you to be cool, right? You're my cool little sis and that's what's important
Anne: Thanks Molly, you're right. It's just difficult, I feel the need to make him like me, even if it's platonically. Like, if I'm not pleasing the boys around me, I'm not valid as a girl.
Molly: That's androcomplacency and misogynistic bullshit. Don't worry.
Anne: Thanks Molly, you're right. It's just difficult, I feel the need to make him like me, even if it's platonically. Like, if I'm not pleasing the boys around me, I'm not valid as a girl.
Molly: That's androcomplacency and misogynistic bullshit. Don't worry.