What makes a real woman?

http://transhumanoid.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/o-what-makes-a-real-woman/
3/15/11
by plasticgirl

Some women maintain that I am not a female or a woman and never can be, because:

   1. I was not socialized as a girl under patriarchy
   2. I do not share in the fear and expectations that girls are subjected to growing up
   3. I was programmed with something called 'male privilege' and entitlement
   4. I do not bleed and can not get pregnant

They are I feel, quite right. There is no denying that gulf and lack of shared danger and lived experience. I agonized over all four of those points, before, during, and yes occasionally still after, transition.

The article links to another, which appears to have had a profound effect upon the first. I noticed this:

QuoteMy experience of growing up in a society that made it abundantly clear my body, my femaleness, was a source of shame. My experience of growing up in a society that uses the threat of rape to keep my population compliant. My experience of being raped and then told what I experienced wasn't rape. My experience of growing up in a society that gave me two options: Madonna or Whore. My experience of growing up in a society that told me my purpose in life was to be a ->-bleeped-<-toy for men. Bear children for men. Take care of men. Be subservient to men. A society that told me I could never be as good as men. That I could never be human like men.

http://fabmatters.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/what-makes-a-woman/

My experience of growing up in a society that made it abundantly clear my body, my femaleness, was a source of shame.

My experience of growing up in a society that made it abundently clear my body, my maleness, was a source of shame and filth.

My experience of growing up in a society that uses the threat of rape to keep my population compliant.

My experience of growing up in a society that uses the threat of rape, sexual disease, social rejection, poverty, violence and humiliation, to keep my population, (gay/transgender) compliant.

My experience of being raped and then told what I experienced wasn't rape.

My experience of being raped and told that I has asked for it, deserved it. To mention it indicates I wanted it.

My experience of growing up in a society that gave me two options: Madonna or Whore.

My experience if growing up in a society that gave me two options, tough guy or death.

My experience of growing up in a society that told me my purpose in life was to be a ->-bleeped-<-toy for men.

My experience of growing up in a society that told me my purpose in life was to be a stoic model of manly virtue, ready to kill and  die for my country.

Bear children for men. Take care of men. Be subservient to men.

Rear children for society to use as the next generation of warriors to defend our glorious leaders, represented by a flag.

A society that told me I could never be as good as men. That I could never be human like men.

A society that told me I could never be as good as anyone. That I was subhuman, worthless, fit only for failure and death.

So women who are amenhorraic, or are infertile are not real women?  Just another example of  white American feminist cultural imperialism.

Some women maintain that I am not a female or a woman and never can be, because:

   1. I was not socialized as a girl under patriarchy
I was socialized as a boy but had no effect, I am still a girl, I socialized myself, and I was well aware of the injustices' perpetrated against women, etc

2. I do not share in the fear and expectations that girls are subjected to growing up
Oh yes, I do. I received many beatings for been effeminate. Just like any girls I grew up with the anxiety of not being feminine enough
3. I was programmed with something called 'male privilege' and entitlement
Just like item number one, the programming was attempted but it did not take in   
4. I do not bleed and can not get pregnant
Most females only bled during the reproductive ages, does that means that during the other years they are not females?
Not every female can or wants to be pregnant. An in vitro fertilized embryo can be implanted in my peritoneum (cavity in my abdomen), and with the correct hormonal support, I can carry a full term ectopic pregnancy, which can be delivered by C-section


So there you go, not so valid points!

Kate