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- From: wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us
- Subject: Re: Self Appreciation (was: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.225440.2772@mr.med.ge.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:54:40 GMT
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- Peter Nelson (nelson_p@apollo.hp.com) wrote:
- > In article <1992Nov17.163629.1172@mr.med.ge.com> wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us writes:
- >
- > [Some Feminist thoughts deleted]
- >
- > How do those who hold this view square it with the opinions
- > of posters like the above? Transexuals will frequently claim
- > that they "feel like" a member of U sex in a V body. Indeed,
- > interesting philosophical questions are raised by just asking
- > what it means to "feel like" a member of a certain gender.
- >
- > I am a male. I am physically attracted to females, which makes
- > me heterosexual. I have a variety of personality characteristics
- > and might feel happy, sad, driven, angry, elated, wistful, melan-
- > choly, silly, and so forth at various times. Yet despite all
- > of this I'm not sure what it "feels like" to be a man. That is,
- > I can't associate any of these feelings with "maleness" and
- > obviously I don't know what it "feels like" to be female, either.
- > So why/how does the above poster think she (he? --what's the
- > correct pronoun?) does?
- >
- >
- > ---peter
-
- Peter,
-
- I don't know how to describe it to you. I just know I am female. I think
- like a female and naturally fit in. About the best I can do is that you
- know you're a male, I know I'm a female. I also hate my male body. It's
- the wrong body, that's all that's to it. I would do just about anything
- to change it.
-
- Did you happen to see the Discover channel program on "Brain Sex"? It
- talked about gender identification. Gender (which is not the same as what
- physical sex you are) has to do with sense of self and appears to be
- controled by hormones during fetal development. Watch it some time, it
- was really interesting.
-
- Wendy
-
- PS. I prefer to be called "she"!!!! Thanks!
-