KellyJameson
11-17-2011, 03:05 PM
"Masculinity versus its opposite, femininity refers to the distribution of roles between the genders which is another fundamental issue for any society to which a range of solutions are found. The IBM studies revealed that (a) women’s values differ less among societies than men’s values; (b) men’s values from one country to another contain a dimension from very assertive and competitive and maximally different from women’s values on the one side, to modest and caring and similar to women’s values on the other. The assertive pole has been called ‘masculine’ and the modest, caring pole ‘feminine’.
For example, Germany has a masculine culture with a 66 on the scale of Hofstede (Netherlands 14). Masculine traits include assertiveness, materialism/material success, self-centeredness, power, strength, and individual achievements. The United States scored a 62 on Hofstede’s scale. So these two cultures share, in terms of masculinity, similar values."
A male born with or having acquired the values traditionally associated with womens values would find it very stressful to live in a masculine culture and would experience this as a relentless attack on their very identity and worth as a human being if they could not adapt by suppressing their emotions, at least this is what my childhood and early adult years felt like and one reason I crossdress is to assert my right to be me, it is an act of rebellion as well as a form of escape from the forces that try to change me but yet I am not able to completely escape my past and that is why I become relaxed when I see myself in womans clothes because than the outside matches what I have always been "accused" of being ( acting like a girl ) I wonder if the mind would know what sex it is if there was no way to learn through comparison with others or if no one told you that you are a boy or girl. Sex is assigned to us by the world based on our physical bodies along with the expected behavior and perhaps MtF and FtM is for survival against this and how far we take it depends on the temperament we were born with and the harm done to us from conflict with others when we fail to do what is expected of us. A form of damage control.
Any Thoughts ?
For example, Germany has a masculine culture with a 66 on the scale of Hofstede (Netherlands 14). Masculine traits include assertiveness, materialism/material success, self-centeredness, power, strength, and individual achievements. The United States scored a 62 on Hofstede’s scale. So these two cultures share, in terms of masculinity, similar values."
A male born with or having acquired the values traditionally associated with womens values would find it very stressful to live in a masculine culture and would experience this as a relentless attack on their very identity and worth as a human being if they could not adapt by suppressing their emotions, at least this is what my childhood and early adult years felt like and one reason I crossdress is to assert my right to be me, it is an act of rebellion as well as a form of escape from the forces that try to change me but yet I am not able to completely escape my past and that is why I become relaxed when I see myself in womans clothes because than the outside matches what I have always been "accused" of being ( acting like a girl ) I wonder if the mind would know what sex it is if there was no way to learn through comparison with others or if no one told you that you are a boy or girl. Sex is assigned to us by the world based on our physical bodies along with the expected behavior and perhaps MtF and FtM is for survival against this and how far we take it depends on the temperament we were born with and the harm done to us from conflict with others when we fail to do what is expected of us. A form of damage control.
Any Thoughts ?