On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, srl wrote:
> 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".)
I'm sorry if I'm missing the point, but is 'the right kind of woman' in
reference to being heterosexual?
> Bah. Gender essentialism blows.
> srl
Robert
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