[Prestidigitweeze]

I'd argue that wearing a mask is half the fun of creating characters. You can be the most male-identified biker-boot-wearing sewage-boxing engine tooler and you still have to become a woman to write about her convincingly.

Masks are a form of play. Masks can free you from dead-end points of view, as Sade's ridiculous monologues show. Facebook's a depressing example of the pitfalls of literal-minded identity.