MissBabydoll -> RE: A Veritable Smorgasbord of Kink (2/10/2007 5:42:16 PM)
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Lola, you nailed it. This conforms completely to My experience (on and off over a decade) with fem sub males, usually lumped together as "sissies" (though not all of them are that exactly). They don't want to be female, just feminine, which as any butch lesbian will tell you are not the same thing. Femaleness is biological, femininity is socially constructed. Everyone is somewhere on the butch/fem continuum the same way everyone is somewhere on the homo/het continuum, or the top/bottom continuum. I think a lot of fem males start out that way because they don't feel a psychological "fit" with masculine traits and behaviors and adopt feminine ones as the other option, especially because, in the binary logic of gender, everyone who is not a "boy" is a "girl." (Incidentally, has anyone else noticed how intense the "femiphobic" anxiety is on *Scrubs*?) Also, ironically enough, I think that fem boys worship femininity because most girls don't respect them, having already by age 7 or so been socialized to feel that, although boy-boys are dumb and rough and have cooties, girlyboys who want to play with them are weird and icky. So sissydom usually involves a huge amount of eroticized shame. The fem male is at the bottom of the hierarchy of gender, which I see being thoughtlessly reinforced in the BDSM community (including these boards) just like everywhere else. That said, as a Domme and a kinky person I can't be entirely sorry that so many of my Sisters don't care for sissies. I get to pick the cream of the crop, and they are so grateful! But I'm totally sincere. I have always preferred androgynous or outright feminine males as lovers--so sensual and passionate and attentive--and they can make wonderful subs at any age. (My oldest at present is 70, and a sweetie.) Besides, I do like sliding my hand up under a skirt and finding a stiffy to play with!
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