Why does the male gender role have generally less flexibility? Feminine men seem more mocked than masculine women, you can name a baby girl 'Max' but it's weird for a baby boy to be "Sarah", women being bi is basically a fun norm while 'bi guys' are stereotyped as gay. Why?
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It would be interesting to compare and contrast it both to women's relationship to the givenness of their bodies and to male 'body-builders' who focus their agency upon the 'building' of a body as an expression and symbol of their strength of agency.
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I'd be interested to see thoughts on the 'performance of femininity' claim. Those who are anti-trans claim trans women acting in feminine ways are 'performing femininity', and there are trans people tiring of their womanhood being questioned for not being all lipstick & lace.
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Transwomen's identity as women is much more contestable than transmen's, as the givenness of women's identity in their bodies can't simply be constructed, simulated, or performed. Women's bodies have a symbolic *depth* in their fertility—in breasts and womb—that transwomen lack.
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