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Article #555Re: Nature of Female TS rejection
From: Lisa Elser
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 09:04
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 09:04
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In article <2mnlvl$af0@panix2.panix.com>, ro@panix.com (r l reid) writes: > In <1994Mar22.155302.17698@midway.uchicago.edu> h431@quads.uchicago.edu (heather e blair) writes: > > >I do not understand why anybody would want to be passive, waste their > >life away pleasing others, and be helpless. > > Is this what you think transsexuality is all about? > It is what I was raised to believe traditional womanhood was about. Why else was I told not to sweat in basketball, not to slide and get dirty in softball, and to cook, sew, clean, and dissemble? I learned while being prepared for this role that I was not suited for it and that being a woman did not mean I had to embrace this nonsense. Still sometimes when I look uncritically at my mother, I see a beautiful (she really is) gracious, elegant woman who makes guests feel welcomed and smooths any social event she attends. It's easy to see how a TS person might want to emulate this behavior, without looking to see the frustrated, empty, passive-agressive person beneath the facade. Shit, sometimes *I* still want to appear like that! It passes. Lisa
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