Vanya - I think you give your gender too little credit. Women did not start out with the right to dress as men, and certainly not with the right to behave like men. Women fought a long, hard struggle to liberate themselves in terms of clothing. Women are still fighting to be able to act fully within a man's sphere and not be evaluated by their gender.
Women have been shunned, mocked, damned, ostracized, abused and killed in the name of their pursuit of these rights and freedoms. Women are entitled to wear men's clothes because they compelled society's acceptance, and at a cost that was infinitely greater than would be demanded of the crossdressing male community to gain its own acceptance.
Erica
