Snyder ,'Chosen'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I browsed through this book - Self-Made Man by Nora Vincent at lunch and it was really interesting.
Basically Black Like Me except she went in male drag for 18 months. Not a cheap stunt and it's well written and very generous to the people she's with. A lot of insight and compassion and a fascinating story.
I read Salon's take on it, and it was pretty complimentary. Entertainment Weekly really hated it. More precisely her.
Entertainment Weekly really hated it. More precisely her.
Huh. I found her very likeable. Honest, emotionally generous, open.
sounds good, Hec.
Heh. See, whereas I read Salon's take a "wow, she's kinda crazy. Or possibly a lot crazy"
Might have to pick it up, though. But it might make me scream a lot.
It SERIOUSLY puzzles me, knowing what friends of mine go through with having people scream at them on the street, kick them out of bathrooms, etc, that she just magically managed to pass perfectly for a year and a half.
She had sex with a woman, for crying out loud.
I guess no one expects it.
I don't know.
It's happened before; that jazz musician who was a woman passing as a man had at least one girlfriend who never knew, or swore she didn't.
Heh. Somehow, the having sex with a woman part isn't what shocks me! Though that's pretty darn weird, it only takes one clueless woman. To pass for a year and a half takes a LOT of random strangers not outing you (which, sure, most people even if they twig, aren't going to point and go "OH MY GOD THAT'S A WOMAN!", but...seems like there's bound to be a guy in the bathroom who's gonna take offense. I'm betting she made a concerted effort to use single or unisex bathrooms a lot. Though men are a lot less likely to call you out than women (who can and will seriously throw a fuss if a MTF or butch woman walks in), they're also more likely to kick your ass)
It's not too Awareness Day-ish? Because every now and again, I read these dumb things where some AB is in a wheelchair for a whole week and how *do* we stand it? But it's not really the same at all, of course. In both good and bad ways.