[lbo-talk] Womyn's Fest tells transgender women to ban themselves

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Aug 25 12:26:34 PDT 2006


On Aug 25, 2006, at 3:19 PM, info at pulpculture.org quoted:


> A way has still never been made societally and culturally -- after
> thousands
> and thousands of years -- for us, as women, to buy, with dollars,
> any bodily
> presentation which makes our lives tolerable and our passage in
> this world more
> comfortable. In fact, our bodies ensure our rough and difficult
> passage in
> this world, and there is no remedy for this, or has not been,
> outside of
> feminism.

Wow that's harsh, and maybe self-hating. Sure, terrible things happen to women's bodies, but really. Women - and I can attest to this by recent direct experience - can enjoy intense pleasures from pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding that men are have barely an idea of. Many of them seem to enjoy sex a lot too.

Doug



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