Thanks for this post. Thought provoking and informative, without making me any more anxious about my own body! which is nice. :-)
There is definitely a difference between you (or anyone else) understanding that a person doesn't need a penis in order to be a man and the expectation that therefore you, personally, don't need a penis in order to feel whole on your body or even just wanting a penis. The radical fundamentalism that says that maleness is not dependent on the phalluses and therefore no one should have or want genital reconstructive surgery makes my teeth itch,
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Date: 2012-01-21 12:31 am (UTC)Thanks for this post. Thought provoking and informative, without making me any more anxious about my own body! which is nice. :-)
There is definitely a difference between you (or anyone else) understanding that a person doesn't need a penis in order to be a man and the expectation that therefore you, personally, don't need a penis in order to feel whole on your body or even just wanting a penis. The radical fundamentalism that says that maleness is not dependent on the phalluses and therefore no one should have or want genital reconstructive surgery makes my teeth itch,