[ SECRET POST #343 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #343 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

If I may direct your attention to this poll → HERE

EDIT: I removed a few secrets because it was just brought to my attention (I have a crappy memory) that people are being banned for being flagged for this kind of stuff. SORRY. D:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #049.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom [ 1 ] secret revisted/link to fanfiction.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Saturday, December 15th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here CLOSED.
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Comments

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

A transgender individual can say "A man doesn't have act in a way that is stereotypically masculine" and "I want to be a man, even though I may still evince traits that are stereotypically feminine" because the traits that define "masculine" and "feminine" are many and varied, and aren't limited to stereotypes. People are not limited to stereotypes. Gender isn't a binary; much like sexuality, it is a spectrum. Most people get lucky and fall in the same general area on that spectrum physically that they do mentally; some people aren't lucky, and they have to find ways to reconcile the difference between the physical and the mental in whatever ways they can. Sometimes they have the option of surgery; sometimes they have the option of acting out as the other gender.

And wanting to physically be a man does not imply that you don't want to act feminine; all it means is that you want a male body. Sometimes people are just physically uncomfortable in their bodies, and that's why they want/need to be a different gender.

The fact that people who want male bodies also often want to be able to act "masculine" doesn't mean the two automatically correlate. Behavior is separate from appearance, even if we tend to assume that the one informs the other. I think that's the issue that people are getting so up in arms about over this: the assumption is that if people look a certain way, they will act a certain way; thus, if they want to look a certain way, they must want to act a certain way, as well.

As a quiet looking intellectual who listens to death metal and prog rock, I would like to point out that appearances can be deceiving. :) The issue you seem to be having comes down to appearance vs behavior, and you keep throwing the word "stereotypes" around. Haven't we all had to watch the after school special about stereotypes? You know, the one that goes, "Stereotypes are bad, kids. Don't make generalizations about minority groups."