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Nov. 23rd, 2003 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutgender thought to elaborate on later:
It's easier to accept femininity as performative, to see it as a costume. (I'm using performative in a non-academic sense here, primarily). Makeup and hairstyles and fancy clothes. Dress-up.
Masculinity is never supposed to be performative. It's all about "realness."
So why is it that people react to Laura Toby Edison's Familiar Men photos in the way they do? Why is a naked man missing a part of his masculinity if he isn't in clothes?
Drag kings (and FtMs) know that masculinity is performative, too. But there's a lot of resistance to this notion. If you're caught performing masculinity, you're regarded as a fake. An ersatz man. Often, a "sissy."
It's easier to accept femininity as performative, to see it as a costume. (I'm using performative in a non-academic sense here, primarily). Makeup and hairstyles and fancy clothes. Dress-up.
Masculinity is never supposed to be performative. It's all about "realness."
So why is it that people react to Laura Toby Edison's Familiar Men photos in the way they do? Why is a naked man missing a part of his masculinity if he isn't in clothes?
Drag kings (and FtMs) know that masculinity is performative, too. But there's a lot of resistance to this notion. If you're caught performing masculinity, you're regarded as a fake. An ersatz man. Often, a "sissy."
