Ed Wood (director of Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from outer space) was a man, liked to fuck women, and liked to dress up as a woman.
An accuantance of mine is a guy, likes women (probably), dresses up as a woman and present .. herself as a woman.
I am a cis white male.
Is any of all this normal? Does it matter? Should we care?
I say, it's all about knowing what you like, finding it …. and having it liking you back. good luck with that.
All the theory about genders and so on, unless it can be applied, without creating schisms in society,is academic nomenklarture that only needs to promote this BS to have a job.
Now, should it all be examined, in order to help people better through psychology and sociology? SURE!
But, should it be the epicenter of all the change we want to see in the world? I think not!
On a personal level, would you be better off if femininity was introduced to you earlier? Would it make any difference? This is for science to study, not "gender studies" profesors that analyze Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as "academic work".
The facking spectacle and the facking alienation.
Christopher Gray
You're not trans. There's no such thing as transgender since gender is a social phenomenon, not a vague internal feeling. You can hate it all you want, but it's not going to erase the way you are perceived by society at large, or undo the socialization that you've undergone since birth. You're just a woman who is rightfully rejecting femininity. It's important not to lose sight of that.
Xavier Thomas
Well there's also bigender/nonbinary. Genderfluid is an expression, not a gender.
Ethan Parker
wewie eschewie
Charles Perez
Definitely. Obviously I can't speak from any kind of personal experience, but masculinity seems so constricting. Males are encouraged to be so emotionally constipated, not to show signs of weakness even when they clearly need help (see: male suicide rate), resort to violence when it's an inappropriate solution to the problem at hand. You are also discouraged from being nurturing or artistic, which are actually pretty cool things to do. (>inb4 some jackass says bc I like being nurturing, I'm a woman or some spooky bullshit. Caring for other beings and have them love you for it is rad.) This is a really shallow interpretation of the male role, but you know, I haven't really lived it to know better.
Imho… males and females would both benefit from liberating themselves from gender. Gender is inherently repressive as the solid only way to define gender is through gender roles, which arbitrarily limit what is and isn't acceptable for people to do depending on what's between their legs.
My knowledge in feminist theory has been incredibly rusty since I moved on from it about 5 years ago, but I see a lot [email protected]/* */ (not sure if it'd filter that uncensored lol) express this. Gender abolitionism is also a thing, and there's strong overlap with radical feminism. Gender abolitionists might be almost entirely radical feminists, too. I honestly don't really know, but if anyone wants to know, you now have the information to do so.
I really appreciate your post, by the way. My attention's just really divided to gather meaningful thoughts together.
Nah, no tox. Cool to finally meet someone else kinda of flirting with the idea of being agender who's also critical of gender as a whole, though. Especially since you're male.
Joshua Mitchell
It's funny, people love to say shit about >le feminists all hate men, or some shit like that, but aside from the types of people on tumblr who seem like they actually take SCUM Manifesto at face value, it's really more that feminists hate "Men", y'know? Meaning, that the concept of "Men", how males are supposed to be, is actually a component of patriarchy. Cuz it's just really shitty for the reasons you've listed, but a lot people just accept that you're supposed to be that way if you're male because you are subject to a lot of social pressure/shaming if you deviate from it. Especially among your peers. And I've also seen that it leads to really shitty relationships, and is extremely divisive between men and women. Never cared for it myself. I guess I wasn't really raised for most of my life at least with it shoved down my throat, and because of my personality just didn't care, but even then I guess you can't always escape it entirely.
And being an anarchist I fully agree, I think that gender and gender roles are a hierarchy that needs to be overcome. It creates hierarchy over each other - between dominant and submissive roles - and also over yourself, since it limits you from being the free and unique individual you are.
My familiarity is mostly with anfem and Marxist feminism. But my views on the matter have been influenced a lot by Donna Haraway and cyber-feminism, which is largely post-gender. Though it is my understanding that a lot of radfems are sympathetic or supportive of it too. It's hard to tell because feminism is such a broad body of theory.
Genders are a spook, people shouldn't identity as anything but themselves.
Oliver Cox
Being so uncomfortable with the gender roles foisted upon you that it causes you mental distress is unfortunate. But it doesn't mean you're a man in a woman's body waiting to be set free, or vice-versa.
Change society and its expectations. Don't reinforce self-hatred by insisting individuals change their bodies to conform to sexual stereotypes.
Mason Rodriguez
As long as you identify yourself as part of "the X community" you are falling for IDPOL.
Blake Bennett
Life must be hard when your left deltoid is an emu-kin, your right shinbone is a genderfluid poly-transspecies, your upper incisors are trans-black, your hair is an evil ciswhitemale, your gall bladder is an attack helicopter, your lower right arm is a wolf, your cheekbones are…
