On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Robert Wade wrote:
> 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.
<SNIP>
> >
> > (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?
No. I meant "the right kind of woman" to be the heteronormative
female ideal: feminine. Western culture has very little space for
imagining so-called "masculine" females as attractive to (or
attracted to) males, and I think that's a shame.
As far as I can tell, butches (of whatever sexual orientation) have
a hard time finding males who find them attractive, and
standard-socialized men have a hard time admitting attraction to
masculinity, thanks to the homophobia boys get taught from day 1.
srl
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