2013年10月16日 星期三

Issue Paper: If one of the lesbian dress like man, can they still be considered lesbian?

With the development and modernization of the society, homosexuality has been embraced gradually by common people. Nevertheless, to what degree do homosexuals accept themselves? Take lesbian for instance.
There is a common phenomenon that a person of the couple of lesbian would be masculinized, who is called “tomboy.” Her clothing, haircut, the way of speaking and behavior are acted as males.
In all-girl school, this kind of situation often appears. Some girl students dress and act like boy; plus their haircut, most of them just look like some pretty handsome boys. However, are they born to be like this? Most tomboys wear like boys as they enter all-girl school. According to the research, to lesbian’s tomboy, the main reason of being tomboy is that they long to be loved by opposite sex but could not be. On the other hand, the cases of “femme,” who dress and look effeminate among lesbian, the major cause of becoming lesbian is that they were emotionally and deeply traumatized by heterosexual, and thus have no confidence in heterosexual. Furthermore, the reason of
Some may consider that the reason why they dress like man might be that they suffer the pressure by social ethic. So when a lesbian couple shows up in public, one would acts as well as dressed like man in that they will look like normal heterosexual pairs.    
However, lots of cases show that when one falls in love with other lesbian, at the first time, she already appeared with the appearance of male. She just has crush on a male-like girl. As far as I’m concerned, the definition of being lesbian does not exist a women with a man-like woman having relationship. If a woman intents to in love with a woman who dresses like man, she can just go straight to have relationship with a real male.

 It appears that this kind of lesbian is not able to be marked as pure lesbian. Because one of the couple intent to have affection with girls who look like males. So apparently, she is potentially straight.  


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  1. I think this is a very difficult issue because this is more like a philosophy question rather than a controversial question because it depends on how everyone definite it in their mind. And none of law or moral gets involved in this topic, so it is hard to discuss actually. Maybe you can use more examples of life to support your point.
    And I can't see any format of annotation in your article, maybe you can try to add it next time.
    This is really an interesting and fresh debate, ha ha.

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