| John2290 said: [...]Feel free to throw in your opinion even if you don't care for the little quiz. Pax. |
I'm going to offer a slightly different take on things, one that's people seem to find falls somewhere between thought-provoking and controversial (or both).
I'm a man. I guess? I don't know whether I have a Y chromosome or not, but I appear to have the parts that are associated with male sexuality, I have body hair in the places men tend to have it, etc.
Some times I'm told that I'm pretty masculine. Sometimes I've told that I'm pretty nurturing and feminine. You have to be feminine to be nurturing apparently, which I don't get/understand/believe in. The point is, depending on the moment, and the observer, I appear to run the whole gamut of the human condition as regards gender stereotypes.
The part I struggle with is someone saying they're a woman trapped in a man's body, or vice-versa. How is that possible, I ask myself? I don't feel like a man trapped in a man's body. I don't have a "Man Cave". I don't "hang out with the guys". I have male friends and female friends. I have strong and powerful female friends, and loving and nurturing male friends. It seems to me that someone who believes they're a woman trapped in a man's body (or vice-versa) is making some assumptions about what defines a man's personality, or a woman's, that I don't ascribe to. And these assumptions are actually pretty bizarre, teetering towards hurtful, as they seem to be based in stereotypes rather than in an openness towards both men and women each being capable of the full range of human intellect and emotion.
I fully accept transgendered people. If you feel a compulsion like that, who am I to tell you not to? But I don't get it, not even slightly. Because I believe a woman, or a man, can embrace every emotional and intellectual state humans are capable of. So how can it be that your brain is the "wrong" gender when female and male brains are both capable of all of the above? It doesn't grok for me.
