Traditional Masculinity is Defined By Negatives (What You Are NOT Supposed To Be
Summary:
Transgender individual, Celeste Lewis, discovered that society's definition of maleness often involves rejecting feminine traits, leading to violent rejection of those aspects.
Lewis desired a flat chest, lower voice, and facial hair but didn't want to abandon all feminine characteristics.
Transcript:
Speaker 2
Celeste Lewis told me that one thing coming out as trans has revealed to him is how much maleness is defined in terms of negatives, ways we're not supposed to be. So getting rid of parts of yourself that are considered feminine, sometimes violently rejecting those traits.
Speaker 4
So Lewis wanted a flat chest and a lower voice and maybe some facial hair, but that doesn't mean he wanted to give up all those so-called feminine parts of his personality.)
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(highlight:: Everything in Life Depends on How Much You Accept Your Perceived Limits or Circumstances
Summary:
The anti-femininity movement harms everyone.
James Baldwin once said that accepting our limits is crucial. However, my community and I have chosen to reject the limits of gender.
Why can't I be both boyish and sweet, soft spoken and tough, emotionally accessible and sexually dominant?
And why can't my dad be butched and study French poetry, or my mom be maternal and run a construction site?
I don't believe in binary gender, but transforming it requires effort.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
One thing I'm sure of is that this anti-femininity stuff damages all of us. James Baldwin once wrote that everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. My reality and the reality of a lot of my community is that we've decided not to accept the limits of gender. Why can't I be boyish and sweet? Soft spoken and tough, emotionally accessible and sexually dominant at the same time. Why can't my dad be butched and study French poetry? Why can't my mom be maternal and run a construction site? I just can't bring myself to believe in binary gender but there's no way around the fact that not believing in it means working to transform it.)
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