2007-10-10 10:13:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
As a trans woman, dealing with woman on woman hate. Look at this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak9UeywjbxQhvzBGA5_QUIPty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071009061709AA84FMA&show=7#profile-info-h8IV8scUaa
The fear that this transitioning woman must have felt. The hatred. Being called "it." Having her womanhood that she worked so hard for denied by women who only had to eat, sh!t, sleep, and breathe to be recognized as women.
Being treated as an object of hate and derision.
Girls, REALLY, now can you be just a TEENY WEENY less hateful to the women who have fought the hardest to be seen as women?
Maybe some of you are still stuck on the hard parts of humanity, never mind womanhood.
2007-10-10 14:30:24 · answer #1 · answered by Alyssa 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Trying to have both a family with kids and a successful career in a society which still does very little to support women and men with children who do not wish to fulfil "traditional" roles.
Or why are most women in academia childless or become mothers when they are on the verge of infertility? It's really hard to succeed in a ruthless academical world which severely punishes a year without publications without a supportive man and a supportive society.
2007-10-11 03:32:22 · answer #2 · answered by Ithilien 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am expected to look like a sex object but not actually ever have sex because that would make me a sl*t.
I am the only female in my office and hearing about remedies for balding and foot ball plays is about to drive me nuts.
The actually period part. If everyone (all men, all women, all children) bleed from their parts monthly then I wouldn't mind. But when I am the only one and the co-worker asks whats wrong it's kinda hard to describe. So I just say "bad week" and continue eating chocolate. Poor naive guy.
Having all the instincts in the world to raise kids but there's no male able to support me while the kids are too young to be in day care. So in the end I have to choose between career and family. I am stuck with career.
2007-10-10 10:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Nothing. I love being a woman. Why should it be hard? The older I get, the happier I am with myself. My mother and grandmother have set awesome examples of how to have a fulfilling life, and it wasn't by looking at the negative.
2007-10-10 10:24:18 · answer #4 · answered by Bridey 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
For me, the fact that I don't want to have children.. People look down on me for it. Plus doctors are refusing to have my tubes tied.
There is also our high standards for 'beauty' in america. Here an unhealthy body is a beautiful one.
And I'm physically weaker than most men obviously, it just makes life harder.
There are a few more that I could mention, but those three bother me a lot.
2007-10-10 10:16:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I can live with the parts like menstruation but it bothers me when other people talk to me differently or assume I don't have certain interests simply because of what I am. I don't like being pigeonholed like that.
2007-10-10 12:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by RoVale 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I didn't think we had the hardest part?
2007-10-10 13:47:24 · answer #7 · answered by Clodiacallidita 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I really find nothing hard about being a woman, but that doesn't answer the question. So I will have to go with menstruation.
2007-10-10 10:31:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It is the impossible combination of super strength and vulnerability, gentleness and power of spirit that is somehow expected of us.
2007-10-10 10:30:36 · answer #9 · answered by ms.sophisticate 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋