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What Makes a Woman a Woman?

Started by Natasha, September 26, 2009, 05:51:01 AM

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September 26, 2009, 05:51:01 AM
What Makes a Woman a Woman?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27letters-t-WHATMAKESAWO_LETTERS.html
9/26/09

Defining "woman" is always risky business, and I applaud Peggy Orenstein for taking the plunge. While Orenstein tempered the typical risk through her skillful use of personal narrative, I found her analogy of her own situation to transsexuality rather offensive. She writes that "without breasts or hormone-producing ovaries, what would the difference be, say, between myself and a pre-op female-to-male transsexual?
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