Cart before horse
Female homosexuality is regarded as a turn-on at best, or a harmless distraction at worst, rather than an abnormal psychic arrangement. When Madonna slathers Britney, it's a lascivious joke - think of what would be said if Pete Rose grabbed Paul Tagliabue's crotch.Face it - women (in past, as well as since '60s) have always been more emotionally expressive - while many males appear to come equipped with a natural reluctance to display Any emotion except perhaps, aggression.. ie the much-admired John Wayne model.
(The 'turn-on' phrase is properly finished, 'to males') - men are clearly more simplistic in fantsizing - and mere nakedness will do it; obv. women like naked men's appearances too -- but most require a bit more than Just that, to be interested.
You are employing reductio of the calibre of the same kind of crap that is fed to young boys - as reinforces that utter discomfort with normal human emotions -shared by both genders!- and especially: the displaying of such.
In a Bay Area killing in 12/02 of a ~male kid who was, what is now called *'transgender' - 'she' was killed because she made the fatal mistake of attending a "small party" with new acquaintances, without the support group, her (female) friends - who had decided not to go. S/he was killed simply because it was discovered that she was 'male'. (S/he looked quite feminine, and of course! had long endured all the usual Murican virulent forms of abuse for the fact of her clearly Different sense-of-self). Remember Our Xenophobia?
* officially, I'd think, for having recently told his mother. "I feel like a woman trapped in this body".
Here are quotes from a lengthy article as appeard in a mag of the [link|http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/22/CM173274.DTL| SF Chron], following this atrocity
Psychologists and specialists in the field of gender identity say such attacks often stem from a fear of what's inside of oneself. In many cases, victims of hate crimes are pummeled, as if there were something to be exorcised.Note: the use of the non-human OBJECTIVE 'IT' - exactly what I mean about the degree of both sexual and sensual pathology within a significant set of Murican retards, especially young Murican males: perhaps the most self-fearful of any nameable group. They KILLED THIS PERSON - for their pathologically terrifying self-doubts Q-fucking-ED
In one telling account of what had happened, Newark resident Brian Seabrands, who was not at the party but had heard the rumors, told police that things went wrong after guys at a party "found out it (Eddie) wasn't a chick, beat the hell out of it, killed it and supposedly buried it in South Lake Tahoe."
The overwhelming majority of hate crimes involve men.
"There is a fear of the feminine hidden in the masculine self, and somehow that translates into violence," said Anne Fausto-Sterling, a Brown University professor who works with transgendered people and has written several books on human sexuality, including "Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality." She believes that such bias has less to do with class or race than education and familiarization with gender issues.
"The more these other modes of existence become part of the familiar, the less threatening they seem."
Yes.. Yes.. you will protest the idea of specialists in the field of gender identity and much which passes for psych -- while you will express your own equivalents according-to-You. No?
We don't have space (or patience) to set out the full range of homo-sap devious possible qualities [with extreme samples found in both genders] - and which ones are more/less pandered-to within this Puritan besotted shallow culture: but let's -at least!- not settle for the same shoddy quality of analysis as the Culture does, shall we not?
If you trouble to read this whole story, I believe implicit in that - is much I'd say to counter your brand of solipsism on the "proper roles of males, females" - and left out of your mentation - those who are confused (or very clear) about How they perceive themselves as Different from the body-shape they drew".
(Imagine John Wayne's response to THAT idea.!. and That is How It Is in the bathos of this fucked-up juvie-culture.)
ie. Your analytic brilliance in some areas - simply is Not universal, IMhO.
Ashton
Men with Guts are able to cry
(maybe sometimes.. Instead-of 'killing' or killing)
Edit; unfortunately the SFGate archives don't supply the pictures - which put faces on the many involved persons, the gland-fucked kids and the killed-kid.
