Posted on 08/19/2006 9:42:47 PM PDT by hiho hiho
IN the most recent season of the lesbian soap opera, “The L Word,” a new character named Moira announced to her friends that, through surgery and hormone therapy, she would soon be a new person named Max.
“It just saddens me to see so many of our strong butch women giving up their womanhood to be a man,” one friend said.
The sentiment was a tamer version of what many other women wrote on lesbian blogs and Web sites in the weeks after the episode was broadcast last spring. Many called for the Max character to be killed off next season. One suggested dispatching him “by testosterone overdose.”
The reaction to the fictional character captured the bitter tension that can exist over gender reassignment. Among lesbians — the group from which most transgendered men emerge — the increasing number of women who are choosing to pursue life as a man can provoke a deep resentment and almost existential anxiety, raising questions of gender loyalty and political identity, as well as debates about who is and who isn’t, and who never was, a real woman.
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It has been a subtext of gay politics in San Francisco, the only city in the country that covers employees’ sex-change medical expenses. And it bubbles to the surface every summer at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, a lesbian gathering to which only “women born as women and living as women” are invited — a ban on transgendered people of either sex.
Barbara Price, a former festival producer, said the uneasiness has been “a big topic among lesbians for quite some time.”
“There are many people who look at what these young women are doing, and say to themselves, ‘Hey, by turning yourselves into men, don’t you realize you’re going over to the other side?’”
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>>>>‘Hey, by turning yourselves into men, don’t you realize you’re going over to the other side?’
Other side of what?
I think what they mean is that they're becoming 'the enemy', which of course are men.
When are they going to realize they can't have it all 400 ways they want to. By only concentrating on one's sexual behavior (deviancy) there is no way to be all inclusive.
Cat fight! Get out the popcorn.
addadicktomy?
Girls will be boys!
I understood that. I still don't consider them men.
Gives new meaning to "Sleeping With The Enemy"!
who watches this?
Gay men are different. They will often act effeminate and imitate women, but very seldom do they actually have any antipathy towards women. They just don't seem to be as angry as lesbians are.
As my grandmother always says..
But are they happy?
:D
Good Grief!
Neither do I, or does anyone with common sense.
Given that I had someone argue with me the other day that being gay has absolutely positively nothing to do with sexual activity (or desired sexual activity for the abstainers), I can't say I'm suprised to have some women who like women who don't like men who are women and vice versa.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola
No
Yeah, no more smile, but now there is a place to hang your hat.
I can think of one exception: The straight guy who was dating a lesbian, had sex change surgery to become a woman for her, and then she broke up with him.
My father told me about that show. After retiring, it was the first and last talk show he ever watched... lol. I remember him saying: "Can you believe that idiot?"
Yes, that Kinks song has taken a whole new meaning today, hasn't it? LOL.
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