This reminds me of the drag king show Ms. Marvelous and I went to. I kept wondering, why do all these women want to act like the very people who are most opposed to who they are? That is, why is that crotch grabbing, foul mouthed, swaggering chick acting like the assholes who hang out on the corner in Hampden? I don't care WHO you are, I don't appreciate being sized up like a piece of meat, and I don't like watching you lip synch to misogynist rap songs.
Just a note - I do think that there is also an intersection of class in this area. It reminds me of "Stone Butch Blues", the fact that butch lesbians were (and I would believe still are) ending up in lower social classes. In the book, this seems to align itself with acting out of stereotypical gendered roles, and when someone moved out of those roles it caused problems within that (lesbian) community. Does this make sense?
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Date: 2005-11-04 05:07 pm (UTC)Just a note - I do think that there is also an intersection of class in this area. It reminds me of "Stone Butch Blues", the fact that butch lesbians were (and I would believe still are) ending up in lower social classes. In the book, this seems to align itself with acting out of stereotypical gendered roles, and when someone moved out of those roles it caused problems within that (lesbian) community. Does this make sense?