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Erica is usually a woman's name in my country. What does a woman know about how to be a man? Your tone comes across as patronizing to me as George W Bush telling a poor black woman what it means to be poor, black or female. You haven't a clue. Where are your scars? Women have it easy because they have choices. There are many ways you can be a person and female, you really have to go a hell of a long way to go too far and even too far is recoverable. Being masculine in comparison is a tightrope, the slightest slip and you are punished. If you have a name which is sexually ambiguous it can be fun if you're a girl but it is a living hell for a boy. By all means call your daughter Sam or Jo or Robin, it won't cause them any trouble but if you call your son Jocelyn or Evelyn he won't thank you for it. Or Marion (we called the dog Duke) or Shirley. To a girl the term boyish can often be a form of compliment, to a boy any suggestion of being girlish in any way is an incitement to fight. Men don't have the same choices as women. A woman can shave her head, or have a tight cropped haircut and wear clothes deliberately tailored to fit a body of the opposite sex and still be seen as sexy. If a man, or worse, a boy, has long hair there is the constant danger of being taken for a girl, which is an excruciatingly awful thing to happen to a teenager. Shudder. Fortunately now I am too tall to face this problem very often and it would challenge the world's greatest make-up artists to make my face look more female than male. I could now wear long hair, a pony-tail, beads, even a kaftan without the risk of being taken for a woman. But I'd need to be divorced or widowed first, and I'd probably grow a beard, just to be sure. -- Martin Willett http://mwillett.org/
Thank you for your understanding and empathy. Do you think the only reason men don't have babies and periods is because they don't like pain and if we were man enough we'd be women? Grow up. -- Martin Willett http://mwillett.org/
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