A gay man trapped in a woman body

It trivializes our experience. You can like me, you can have a lot in common with me, but you cannot be me. Why would you not want to celebrate your identity as a straight woman? It also strengthens the false idea that human characteristics are gendered. In our society, strength, ambition, bravery, sexual agency, power, aggressiveness are all characteristics we gender as male.

Claim any characteristics you want, but also claim your womanhood. Gay men are not monolithic. To him. Second, context is everything. The first time Madonna made that statement was about twenty-three years ago. I can see that it was meant to be a statement of solidarity, but a lot has happened in those twenty-three years.

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No Dear, You’re Not A Gay Man Trapped In A Woman’s Body

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We hope you will join us once again. Already contributed? Log in to hide these messages. I feel your struggle. Look, you can identify with what gay men have gone through. I certainly identify with a lot of what women have gone through and still go through. But identifying with is a very different thing from identifying as.

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