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[Mark Wicklund]

thanks for that delicious posting, with just the right splash of curt 
sarcasm. your restraint was impressive.




On Mar 26 2008, Kira Hall wrote:

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>On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Sean C Lynch Painting wrote:
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>> PLEASE DONT SEND ME EMAILS
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>> "Rezenet Moges (cappucheeno at yahoo.com)" <rmoges at CSULB.EDU> wrote:
>> I chose the term "masculine women" as the category of my research
>> subjects. Yes, it is sometimes awkward to find the appropriate term
>> without discomforting anyone. In the continuum of the gender identity
>> between femininity and masculinity, as stated earlier, I will focus  
>> on the
>> women on the far end of masculinity. I am not focusing on their
>> sexuality; thus, I will not mention them as butch lesbians, dykes,  
>> studs,
>> or else. I will include heterosexual tomboys and girl-jocks in my  
>> study,
>> so I welcome all women of any sexual background but of specified  
>> gender
>> category with the presence of masculinity. Simultaneously, they  
>> need to
>> be native signers as well.
>>
>> As a native signer myself, I find it difficult to settle on a  
>> single sign
>> for "masculine" without making any establishment or compounded sign. I
>> have seen several variations for that sign. The most popular sign for
>> that word resembles to "MACHO" or "BUTCH." If I was to be  
>> transliterate
>> in writing, it does not seem appropriate to write "
sign language,  
>> focused
>> on MACHO women." Would it?
>>
>> In addition, all this is in its preliminary stages of research so I am
>> eager to hear any feedback. Thanks for your inquiry.
>>
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>> (I tried to post since last night, and am uncertain if there will be
>> repetitive posts. So please excuse this if it does.)
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>>
>> Rezenet Moges
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>> Research Assistant,
>> Anthropology Department,
>> CSU, Long Beach
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>> Sean Lynch
>> sclynchpainting at yahoo.com
>> 203 245 4544
>> 203 710 0143 cell
>> 203 779 5137 fax
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mark wicklund
phd. program, linguistics
university of minnesota

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that is why they invented hell.

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