home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: soc.women
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lambda.msfc.nasa.gov!NewsWatcher!user
- From: celeste%express@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Celeste)
- Subject: Re: Self Appreciation (was: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
- Message-ID: <celeste-201192075836@128.158.16.248>
- Followup-To: soc.women,alt.feminism,soc.men
- Sender: news@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Newsmaster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: 128.158.16.248
- Organization: AEGIS
- References: <1992Nov17.234434.18993@tellab5.tellabs.com> <1992Nov18.153348.6594@mr.med.ge.com> <1992Nov18.215150.5881@ads.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:24:42 GMT
- Lines: 90
-
- In article <1992Nov18.215150.5881@ads.com>, charleen@ADS.COM (Charleen
- Bunjiovianna) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Nov18.153348.6594@mr.med.ge.com> wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us writes:
- > >
- > >I will say this. You are looking at this from one side only. I am starting
- > >to see it from the other side. Whether you believe it or not, women are
- > >looked down upon in this society. Very few men treat them as equals.
- >
- > This is at least the third time you've stated this as fact, and I can
- > no longer ignore it. Your whole premise, quite simply, is suspect.
- >
- > Wendy, you're a pre-op transexual identifying as a woman, not a woman.
- > Your perspective is as a transexual, not as a woman. You didn't grow
- > up as a woman. You don't have the biological functions of a woman.
- > You will someday have the physical appearance of a woman. If you are
- > very lucky (and I hope you are), you will be able to function sexually
- > as a woman.
- >
- > But don't tell me that I, as a woman, am treated in such-and-such a
- > way and that you can prove this through your own experience. I don't
- > buy it.
- >
- > Charleen
- >
- > --
-
- In my discussions with women on "Women's Reality", in attending
- women's groups and reaching out with my own feelings, I get confromation
- that women are treated as second class citizens. Women tell
- me about their rage and furstration in beging discounted by men.
- I can fell that rage and furstration. In meetings, I can feel
- a difference in expectation as to when a man is leading a
- meeting as to when a women leads a meeting. When a man leading
- the expectation is "What exciting thing will he show us?" When a women
- leads is "How is it possiable for her to show us something exciting?"
- I ask my women friends if they too feel this. The confirm such
- changes in expectations.
-
- I don't take words in a book as gosple. I test them against my
- "feelings" and the feelings of others.
-
- As for my self, I don't think and have feelings like the "guys."
- I have never fit in with them. I don't have their intrest
- When I wanted to talk about what what was important to me, I
- was always alone. The "guys" I connect with are those that
- are transgendered like me.
-
- As I spend more time in women's groups and the more I find
- I have a lot in common with women. They want to talk about
- issues that touch me and my life. I, in turn, am intrested
- in their issues. Women, who don't know about my transgendered
- nature, are treating not as a "man" but as "one of the girls."
- That is the strongest validation of my inner nature I have
- ever experienced.
-
- I was not raised as a women. But I definitely did not have
- the typical male childhood either. I spent a lot more time
- with the "girls" rather than with the "boys". I played
- jacks, jump rope and hopsoch with the girls. I was the
- 2nd sissiest boy in school. I can remember being in a click
- of 2 girls, the sissiest boy in school and me. My dating in college
- was more like 2 girls going out. If we meet a girl that
- was alone, she joined us to make a threesome or foursome.
-
- I can speak from experience as a transgendered person.
-
- I can only relate the experiences I have seen, my women
- friends have shared or read in a book (ie. "Women's Reality")
-
- As to buy and selling experiences.
-
- I am not selling any.
-
- Your experiences (true, or mileage) may vary.
- I have read feminists have arguments as to way women are treated.
- So such disagreements are common. But I belive the
- there are many truths, not one truth.
-
- I belive Wendy's experience is true.
- I belive your experience is true.
-
- They are not the same but that is all right.
- There is plenty of truth to be found.
-
- It may simply not be a truth that you have found.
-
- Love and hugs,
-
- Celeste
-