Reddit reviews Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again
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A woman dresses as a man for 18 months to live as one.
>When one woman went undercover as a man, she realized that men are entirely invisible, without anyone to help them, without anyone to care about them. She became thoroughly depressed and gained a new sympathy for the modern man.
Source for those curious. The above is a bit oversimplified I think, but in general the author did acknowledge that men don't live as well or as freely as many women think.
Although this is an interesting article, I don't think it's fair to make generalizations about male privilege as a universal concept based on a single anecdote. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to the contrary too.
One interesting story is that of Norah Vincent, a lesbian journalist who lived as a man for a year and a half, and wrote a book about her experience. To quote from this interview:
> Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don't have it better.
And her conclusion is completely opposite to that of the woman in the article:
> I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
Contrasting these two stories shows that experiences really vary from person to person, so please don't turn this into a feminist circlejerk about how men have all the advantages and women have none.
>I remember reading the story of a woman who went undercover as a man for a while.
I believe you're referring to Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again, unless i'm mistaken.
>Identity IS important and faking one can be rather damaging.
I agree with this, but op I believe is operating under the notion of postgenderism, and because bathrooms are, or should segregated now on basis of sex, not gender. So transsexuals going into the opposite sex's bathrooms are inappropriate. Not because they are faking anything, but the need to affirm their gender is beyond him, as he's stated multiple times not understand transgenderism.
Here you go.
Look at the cover of the book on Amazon.
That'd be this book - http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/dp/0670034665 - and it is AWESOME!
So, there was a Christian Evangelical who did something like this: Timothy Kurek, Jesus in Drag.
There are people who have also done similar things. Black Like Me. Self-Made Man.
I don't know how I feel about this. For one, it doesn't feel kosher, and there are so many layers of privilege... and so much disbelief as to whether he'll get it right, or how much he'll get wrong.
You know what I think here? Common People. Specifically, the lyrics "Cause everybody hates a tourist, / especially one who thinks its all just a laugh."
He's going to be a tourist. He'll have the ability to call his dad to end it all, so to speak. He won't really have all his friends vanish, or have those bridges burn, or lose his roots.
I understand the value in having someone cross those lines, and then go back and educate those that didn't what it's like on the other side. I appreciate how difficult it can be. I don't want to dissuade your son from his project, but it makes me so uncomfortable.
> it is much tougher to be a woman in this world than a man.
I think giving this book a quick read might suggest otherwise.
You said you love books
You might be interested in this book: Self-made Man
http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/dp/0670034665
About a woman who disguised herself as a man and documented her experiences.
How about "Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again" by Norah Vincent (http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/dp/0670034665/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427239563&sr=1-1&keywords=Self-Made+Man%3A+One+Woman%27s+Journey+into+Manhood+and+Back+Again%09by+Norah+Vincent)
I know I'm a little late to this conversation, but for anyone who is seriously interested in following this thought exercise, I would suggest reading the book "Self-Made Man" by Norah Vincent, who spent a year as a man. There are some pretty interesting insights, I thought.
> how best to pick them up because they've never tried to pick themselves up There was a link posted to this subreddit that I read last night about a woman who went undercover as a man and tried her hand at seducing women
If you're referring to Self-Made Man, then the author did have experience picking up women, seeing as she is a lesbian.
It's much harder to be a man than it is to be a woman. Read "Self-Made Man" by Norah Vincent. The author (a woman) disguises herself as a man and lives that way for several months. Kind of a "Black Like Me" experience. She comes to the conclusion that, compared to men, women have it pretty easy.
That was Norah Vincent...