[David-Gardner]

Edgar: Excellent point, of course, that ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ dress and behavior are social constructs that have changed considerably. One of the reasons I asked my orginal question is that I’ve got a lesbian friend whom I love dearly…and she wears her hair GI short, always dresses in overalls, and takes hormones to help grow a mustache. I know that gays don’t want to actually BE the opposite sex (with the usual rare exceptions), but it sure seems strange to me that many (certainly not all) gays try to dress and act as much like the opposite sex as possible, based on current social constructs in our current culture. And what I really have trouble understanding is why another gay person would be attracted to someone who does that. (Granted, we’re all beautiful in our own way, of course.) But if I were a lesbian…sexually and emotionally attracted to other women…I would THINK I’d want a woman who looked and acted like a woman. Not a lover who tried as much as she could to dress and act like a man, under our current cultural ideas. Warm regards, Edgar…and thanks for responding.

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