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So if you are sensitive and like women's clothing that makes you female?

posted 9 years ago by lumosnight
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Seriously? Is that the criteria that you are female inside?

I guess then all women who don't wear makeup, are not shy and don't like girly stuff are actually men on the inside.

I mean, this idea of being defined a woman or a man is all based on local cultural norms. Being tough doesn't mean that you have a "man's mind" anymore than being sensitive makes you feminine. These are not exclusively male or female traits, both genders have them.

Please don't take me the wrong way, but I cannot understand the justification for wanting to change your own gender merely because you like to dress differently or your emotional state. It seems that people who surgically change their genders have their own ingrained idea of what a man or woman should behave like, which is honestly a very ignorant view of the sexes.

I don't want to start a flame war here, but can someone give a legitimate explanation why you would do something as drastic as changing your own sex that is not based on sexist views of genders?

[–] startwith 9 years ago

No that's not the only reason. Feeling that you are female is a result of complicated issues of the mind and heart. I have no first hand experience of gender conflict except through friends. That said, movies being the medium they are have to SHOW you things. Dresses, stockings, expressions to get the point across. That's what movies do.

[–] lumosnight 9 years ago

So how do you "feel female"? Being sensitive? Fluttering your eyelashes? Crying a lot? It's funny how men have this very sexist and marginalized view of women as overemotional beings that only want to have children. If you feel these things, then you must be a woman inside, right? I could never respect Einar's character because of that view.

[–] galluslass 9 years ago

Do we base laws and social issues on feelings these days? What does feel like a woman actually mean? Do all Females feel the same? Surely you only know how it feels to be you.

[–] Green_Lump 9 years ago

The movie never suggested that simply liking to be in women's clothing makes you female. It showed that the character herself was female inside, and expressed it in many ways, scenes, and emotions.

- Waffa

[–] AnotherUserID 9 years ago

On Gerda Wegenor's Wikipedia page there is referenced an article from Harlot (I think it's a magazine) about clothing based erotica and the differences between that and transgender issues. Might help. It was an interesting article if nothing else.