
Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2
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The Importance of Cross Dressing
A man dressed as a woman was erotic enough to fulfil heterosexual lust. That's the sort of basic way of looking at it. But on the other hand, I think there is something deeper at play where it's not just wanting to see a femininity. It's like did men actually find a way of expressing a more fluid gender identity? Was there something more playful about and meaningful about this cross dressing? And in Yes Farewell, the Mickey Byrne novel, there's the character called Masterman, which is such a great male name for the cross dresser. He by the end of the time he called it is kind of inhabiting this women who he had played. All these men
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