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Old 05-02-2013, 10:06 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
I would argue that to create and explore metaphors of gender identity is to discuss the idea of women, in the sense that any gender role which is imposed -- mapped out for someone who might not even desire it -- is arbitrary, yet, in a given society, is seen as so ineradicably and ineffably true that it sears and stars the object to the point of reactive adaptation. Merely to contemplate that issue from different sides -- the enforcer and the enforced upon -- is to consider the idea of being a woman in an overly prescriptive society.
But not to consider the idea of being a man?
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