King for a Day (Give or Take 540)

What would you do if you could live as the opposite gender for a day?  How about for 18 months straight?

Norah Vincent (a 5'10" lesbian, by the way, who wears men's size-11 shoes) did just that, going undercover as "Ned" for a book she wrote called "Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back."

Most straight guys I know would probably make their first stop the women's locker room.  But as ABC's 20/20 discovered, Norah was more interested in learning about gender differences that go beyond mere genitalia.

The results were surprising to her in many ways she couldn't first imagine.

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Comments

[Justin]

Just One of the Guys redux?

[Jack Malebranche]

Great content.

I read the article and I really like what she seems to have learned from it. I think a lot of homosexual men essentially need to learn the same lesson--a lot of them fear straight men and take the lesbian/feminist posture of reducing them verbally and resenting them. It's commonplace in gay culture to openly disdain straight men (unless you're saying how hot they are) and their world but I really think that homos have a lot to learn from straight men. Once they get past the post-adolescent frat stage, I find them generally to be far more reasonable and sane than women or gays.

My favorite quotes:

Her experience with these men turned some of her long-held perceptions about men being harsh and rejecting and women being warm and welcoming upside down.

"When you mess around with that, you really mess around with something that you need that helps you to function. And I found out that gender lives in your brain and is something much more than costume. And I really learned that the hard way," she said.

[Jamie]

Good find. I read the ABC article--
She continued her emotional descent, and a week later, checked in to a hospital with severe depression. Identity, she concluded, was not something to play around with.

"When you mess around with that, you really mess around with something that you need that helps you to function. And I found out that gender lives in your brain and is something much more than costume. And I really learned that the hard way," she said.

This makes me think of the comments to the post "signed, confused?" But she's still missing that genetic component . . .

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There are some convincing drag kings but Ned just looks like a lesbian.

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