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cloudboy -> RE: Forced Feminization (3/18/2009 3:30:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici
There is no forced Fem as she is a female to start with--its more like coming of age or finding one's sense of center.
This is where you are mistaken, IMO, because "feminization" is a set of assumptions and practices to train one toward a "feminine ideal," and the starting gender really doesn't have anything to do with it. Its just more acceptable and "natural" to foist such a process onto females and its shocking and jarring when applied to males.
I would say thanks to the feminist movement, the masculinization of females goes largely unnoticed. Women who wear pants, play sports, and depart from feminine roles largely go unnoticed because its both common and socially accepted. Put another way, a unisex world applies to women, but not to men.
In Miss Congeniality, though, the forced feminization process is just as jarring on Sandra Bullock as it would be on a man, because it represents a radical departure from her nature, values, and the way she has been raised. The only difference between her and men is that physically she is able to blend in, but the cultural societal assault on her person is the same --- as she must face objectification, bondage, bimboization, and subordination to her trainer and the training process.
As an aside, Sandy Martin, who plays Selma Green on Big Love, definitely looks better in a suit than she does in a dress. The only "disturbing" thing is how cloaked her gender becomes when she does it. Hence Selma is actually stigmatized for looking too much like a man (passing), whereas cross dressers are typically stigmatized for not passing and being readily identified as men.
Women in the "wrong clothing" are fine, long as they are readily identifiable as women.
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