Bread and Bandages
6/21/2004
  Anorexic Rage
I am angry a lot. Sean agrees -- 'well.... you are very
aggressive.' Why is that bad? Does it bother me? Well ,
I am angry, and with damn good cause. Would my anger
be considered inappropriate if I was a boy? Would the
things I think fuel my anger even happen to me at all if
I was a boy? What part does social-gender roles play
in the gene-environment model anyways? Why is our perception of
gender so much more important than the sex organs themselves?
Or are those really just constructs
after all? My hips are physically real, as are my breasts.
Why are they real in a way that my desires are not?
 
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