Two Frogs
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My theory: Womanhood is a prison. Women are also specially and specifically targetted by advertising their entire life to make them feel like they are ugly and need to fix themselves. Pooning provides the illusion of an escape from this, while still following the structure of "fix yourself with products" they've been indoctrinated into. Some women simply cannot accept that they are allowed to be ugly and wear jeans without justifying it somehow. "Being ugly" to a woman is pretty much life destroying with how much appearance is valued, even in professional settings, and many form mental illnesses around it. Many are also victims of sexual abuse and assault, resulting in more mental illness about their genitalia and their position as a victim/survivor.Well this is depressing. Why in the hell do women do this to themselves?
The book "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg (fictional but draws on life experiences) explores a lot of this, from the perspective of a woman who is a lesbian who then goes on to live as a man, in 1993. The idea of a "stone butch" is a lesbian woman who has been harmed so significantly in her life that she cannot relax enough to enjoy the experience of being sexually touched by another person, even the woman she loves. In the book, the female butch main character goes on to live as a man because violence against lesbians has increased so much that it is fundamentally unsafe to be gay due to police action, not specifically because they are trans-identified.
It's a very interesting read that explores the mentality of the situation from an inside perspective from a time when things weren't quite so hysterical and frothing and delusional. Leslie Feinberg was an interesting individual. I would hesitate to call her a pooner even though she identified as "transsexual", took male hormones, and used fantasy pronouns; ultimately she reads to me as a gender-nonconforming butch lesbian who was so harmed by womanhood and male violence that she came to reject it, as is mirrored by the path that the main character in her book takes.
I find it valuable to read this perspective to understand why these behaviors manifest the way they do, because they can be helped and healed without needless surgery, and without crybullying and browbeating greater society into a shared delusion.