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These are the words from my random and myriad brain. I haven't been great at writing on a regular basis. I suppose this is my attempt. We will see how that works out. I have multiple venues where I actually write and one day I will consolidate. But that day is NOT today, so I digress. In any case, I hope you enjoy whatever you read and add whatever you feel.

-Qelsi

Sunday, January 02, 2005

Masculine Women: Not what U think

Is it just me or is the definition of outward femininity changing? If I were to look at any history book or ancient archaeological book, or historical film/TV media, I think I would find an image of femininity that is round or curvy in some way. Now, femininity in pop culture is defined by exactly the opposite. I don't know exactly when it began to change (maybe with Twiggy), but now the popular picture of a feminine woman seems to be a woman that looks like a skinny man or an adolescent child. I think it no strange coincidence that in Elizabethan times, at least in Shakespearean plays women were played by adolescent boys. I would appreciate it if someone who is more knowledgeable on this subject would explain why that was the case. For now, I don't exactly know what that meant. Did it mean that men on top of thinking women had certain skills that were unmatchable to their own, also felt like women were so inadequate that they couldn't even play themselves? Whatever the reason, in the present day I find it troubling that as a woman a certain identity is being stripped. I mean I knew that I had added another step to becoming a woman when I looked in the mirror and saw that I had hips. Hips are a trait that makes a woman indistinguishable along with breasts. If a man were to want to become a woman those are seemingly two curves that would need to outwardly exist, breasts and hips. What is it now that any man if wanting can outwardly become a woman so easily? Don't you think it should be a little work to make that feat happen. I mean looking at the women today. They boast no curves. They are stringy with either absolutely no breasts or absolutely too big, surgically altered breasts and no hips. Their makeup is caked on so it is not like there is any other natural trait left to distinguish a woman from a man. I guess the only things left in distinguishing are the Adams Apple and big hands and feet, maybe? I just wonder if these words ever cross anyone's mind: "Is that a transvestite or a woman I am looking at?"
Now, onto something else that has been intriguing me. If it is becoming harder and harder to distinguish women from transvestite men, what does this say about the desires of men who buy into pop culture? In today's society does this mean that men desire men-looking women or men? I mean I am just asking. Most times after I explain my line of thinking most men absolutely deny it but how couldn't they, I think? If most women that are being sold to the public look like adolescent boys or girls or transvestite men and this image is an image that men seem to like, then these men could most probably and do, seemingly, desire a man (or at least not a historic or ancient idea of femininity that consists of curves and/or roundness). I am just looking at an aspect of gender bending. Do you agree or disagree?

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