Posted by
Kim on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:37:36 PM
Norah Vincent, author of "Self-Made Man" spent 18 months pretending to be a man.
On the surface, it seems to be an experiment in sociology in an effort to understand men better. While interesting I cannot help but wonder if this as an area that is better left unknown.
First, men and women are different and the beauty and the interest in that is living day to day figuring each other out. If we have that much insight into each other, it might make the day to day easier in general but if we begin to understand the way each other works, will we then begin to attempt to modify our behavior to treat the other person (in the case of a wife and her husband) as another man would, under the impression is makes it easier to understand each other? And if we do, what does that do to the male-female relationship. Is this an attempt to truly "equalize" everything, taking away the very beauty that God designed as inherent to each of us as unique separate genders?
Second, does this begin to normalize transexual behavior and pave the way for it to become more accepted in our society? Sure we can laugh at her exploits, be intrigued by what she's learned, but in that, does this "woman becomes man" behavior begin to appear normal?
I don't know the science behind it, never met a transexual, never read much on it, but I stand firm in my belief that anything other than a male-female relationship and any thoughts of "wrong gender" are born of illness, nothing more.
Oh, you think you're a man in a woman's body, GO GET HELP!
Not from a plastic surgeon, from psychiatrist.