The Transgender Revolution, From Albert Nobbs to 'Work It'
Jan 17, 2012 5:22 PM EST
From Albert Nobbs to "Dancing With the Stars" to the "Work It" controversy to the Girl Scouts, transgender issues are everywhere.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/17/the-transgender-revolution-from-albert-nobbs-to-work-it.htmlThere is a scene in Albert Nobbs, the movie starring Glenn Close as a woman who passes as a man to survive in late-19th-century Dublin, in which Albert Nobbs and Hubert Page, another woman living as a man, played by Janet McTeer, take a stroll on the beach wearing dresses.
They've been living for so long as men that wearing women's clothing is as much drag to them as it would be if their male counterparts were donning lace frocks. They stagger awkwardly, inelegantly walking like bowlegged cowboys, before Nobbs suddenly breaks stride and begins running through the wind. After a moment of feeling freedom, Nobbs trips and falls. Soon, the gentle butler is back in his usual garb, a suit and tie covering a constrictive corset that hides his breasts.
