Norah "Ned" Vincent; Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Is it harder being a man or a woman? |
She was also a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay and lesbian news magazine The Advocate and a columnist for The Village Voice and Salon.com. Her writing has also appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, the New York Post, The Washington Post, and many more periodicals around the country.
One woman's journey to manhood and back |
She described her experiences in male-male and male-female interactions. She joined an all-male bowling club, a men's therapy group, went to a strip club, dated women who didn't know they were bisexuals, and used her knowledge as a lesbian lapsed Catholic to become a monk trainee in a cloistered monastery.
She writes about how the only time she has ever been considered excessively feminine was during her stint as a man: Her alter ego, Ned, was assumed to be effeminate and therefore gay on several occasions.
Norah Vincent became "Ned" then Norah. |
She asserts that, since the experiment, she has more fully realized the benefits of being female and the disadvantages of being male, stating: "I really like being a woman....I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege."
She has also stated that she has gained more sympathy for and understanding of men and the male condition in the (patriarchal) Western world:
"Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don't have it better. They need our sympathy, they need our love, and they need each other more than anything else. They need to be together [not gay but more intimate and vulnerable]."
What have I done? This isn't me. — Norah Vincent
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