On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> In this course, we also watched a video of a "Dateline" episode (for you
> non-USers, Dateline is a primetime-ish show with "investigative"
> reporting, shown on a major TV network) which shows a "study" being done
> on several girls who are super-tomboyish. They are going to watch the
> girls all the way into adulthood to find out if they end up lesbians or
> bisexual. (!!) Scary stuff.
That is Evil. Of course, they really ought to keep in mind that some
of those kids may decide they want to be boys. Gender-role
nonconformity in females doesn't have to mean "attracted to
females". I know plenty of gay female-to-male folk.
(Or they may grow up to be "normal" heterosexual women who take
shit for the fact that they're butch, and have a hard time because
men assume they're dykes. I just hate to see tomboys
turned into "the right kind of woman".)
Bah. Gender essentialism blows.
srl
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