Yes! Exactly. I have a number of female acquaintances who have disowned the identity "woman" because to them to be a "woman" is to accept the femininity regimes imposed on female persons. To me it's more productive to claim the word woman and define and perform it in terms that resist normative femininity.
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Date: 2007-09-14 07:30 pm (UTC)Each has to find her own way through this mess.