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igor2003 -> RE: Why is it degrading/humiliating to feminize a man? (7/2/2012 9:45:34 AM)
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I think that it actually is pretty much a one-way thing with it being more humiliating to feminize a man than to masculinize ( I don't think those are really words, but you know what I mean) a woman.
Think about the ways society pushes men to be masculine. Little boys are told to "be a man", "man up", "cowboy up", "don't cry", "don't be a sissy", and many other things that make it look weak and less manly if they don't practice the "art" of being a man. Then, when "forced" to go outside of the guidelines that he has been subjected to for years it becomes a humiliation and he feels like less of a man.
Girls, on the other hand, especially in the last 100-150 years, have steadily been given the okay to be more masculine. Long ago it was considered almost an outrage for a woman to be seen in anything but a dress. In many (most?) areas it is now much more common to see women in slacks, jeans, and pantsuits than in skirts and dresses. Things like bra burning were done to help women escape their traditional feminine roles. The struggle for "equality" in many every-day roles has given women the freedom to participate in many formerly "masculine" pursuits, including the way they dress, without feeling negative pressure from society, therefore it normally isn't a "humiliating" experience to them to dress more like a man.
As far as feminine = inferior? No way. It is not the femininity that is humiliating, but rather the stripping away of what the male has been told is "normal" for so many years. It makes him feel vulnerable and self-consious, much like one man being naked in a room of clothed women. Being naked, in and of itself, is not humiliating, and being feminine, in and of itself, is not inferior.
Just my opinion.
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