body language

[Rezenet Moges (cappucheeno@yahoo.com)]

It would not be true if I applied your logic as "masculine" women are 
not "real" women to this statement: "butch" lesbians are not "real" 
lesbians. I use the gender descriptions not to judge the mediocrity of a 
person's sex.

-Rezenet Moges


On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:30:54 -0500, Amy Sheldon <asheldon at UMN.EDU> wrote:

>
> One of the problems I have with the idea of describing nondrag king
>women as "mascuiline" women, is that it conveys the idea that such
>women are not "real" women.  Not bona fide. If we stick with labels
>that come out of the rhetoric of gender hierarchy and gender
>categories, i.e., the status quo,, that's one of the consequences.
>Gender is political.
>Amy
>

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