cloudboy -> RE: forced masculinity (3/14/2006 5:45:06 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SweetDommes quote:
ORIGINAL: sissymaidlola because what one has dangling, or not, between one's legs does NOT determine one's gender. That's because gender is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT. Um, my point was that while not all males have penises, most do (because most people born into a genetically and/or physically male body are male in psychological gender) ... and most females do not. Thus making having a penis a male trait. I'd venture to guess that 90 to 95% of males have one, and 90 to 95% of females do not. Lola's point was that physiology, although a sign of gender, is not determinitive of it. Hence lola's POV is that "gender is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT." When people read the signs or "traits" as you call them of gender as determinitive, they are fucking people who don't fit the mold. This whole threadline has been about molds and preferences. I'm personally not offended by anyone's viewpoint here, because I don't expect others to be sensitive to me or what I might want. But men with very strong TV urges or men who go a more serious transgender route (TS) have enough baggage as it is without GGs piling on about what "makes a real man." It would be more straighforward of you to just inform this small forlorn group to crawl into a hole and die b/c no one wants them, least of all you. So you see, its a subtle thing, not an overt thing here ---- which is smart on your part --- because "I love masculine men" leaves you the back door opening of plausible denyability that you look down on anything else. Its kind of like me going on and on about how I love and adore THIN women. If this is all I say, then its quite easy for me to deny hating fat women. Its a subtle thing. Now, mind you, I'm not offended at all, because I'm always glad to know what others think, inclusive or dismissive of me. There's nothing better than one's own honesty, unsugar-coated. But lets not pretend to be blind to the reaction our words might cause, and please, let's not play innocent about it either. Its a bit puzzling to me that TVs and TSs get so sensitive about rejection anyway, b/c you'd think with their whole lifetime of rejection, scorn, derision, and general lack of GG interest --- you'd think they'd be toughenup up like the Freemen wearing stillsuits out in DUNE's desert wastland. Tough, because self reliance is about all you've got.
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