Oh my god. From another (1994, but still) thing we're reading:
"In our society, in addition to man and woman, the status can be transvestite (a person who dresses in opposite-gender clothes) and transsexual (a person who has had sex-change surgery). Transvestites and transsexuals carefully construct their gender status by dressing, speaking, walking, gesturing in the ways prescribed for women or men—whichever they want to be taken for—and so does any 'normal' person."
I can't even. Just. RAGE. Like how can you even pack that many offensive/fuckedup/blatantlywrong things into two sentences?
Re: an important clarification
"In our society, in addition to man and woman, the status can be transvestite (a person who dresses in opposite-gender clothes) and transsexual (a person who has had sex-change surgery). Transvestites and transsexuals carefully construct their gender status by dressing, speaking, walking, gesturing in the ways prescribed for women or men—whichever they want to be taken for—and so does any 'normal' person."
I can't even. Just. RAGE. Like how can you even pack that many offensive/fuckedup/blatantlywrong things into two sentences?