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- From: weaver@jetsun.weitek.COM (Michael Gordon Weaver)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Turning the Matter Around
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.192519.28694@jetsun.weitek.COM>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:25:19 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.021142.768@fuug.fi> <1993Jan19.231705.16998@wetware.com> <77216@apple.apple.COM>
- Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <77216@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
- >drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- >
- >>p1: the more interesting question is why is it that
- >>when women cross dress no one even pauses to think about it
- >>at all anymore?
- >
- >Speak for yourself. I certainly notice it. The thing is, wearing jeans and
- >a t-shirt is not cross dressing. Don't most male cross-dressers wear
- >symbolically feminine clothes? Likewise, I don't consider a woman to be
- >cross-dressed unless she's decked out in symbolically masculine clothes
- >like a pin-stripe suit, wingtips, and fedora.
- >
- I was slipping towards thinking like 'p1', but not long ago I saw a
- woman in a tuxedo and found it a bit disturbing. Which was interesting
- to me because I wouldn't have guessed it would be so easy for a woman
- to dress 'like a man' in my eyes.
-
- There is a French film out now called 'The Lover', in which the lead
- actress, a young girl, wears a fedora. It is an important symbol in the
- movie of the girls adventurousness. It did make her seem more exciting
- to me (I'm easily led, I guess). No wingtips for me, thanks anyway.
-
- Michael.
-