Game 8 Book 5
The fifth and final book of Game 8 is Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent.
Blurb:
Norah Vincent really did date women as a guy named Ned, retreat to a monastery, infiltrate a men's therapy group, get a job in a testosterone-fuelled office and join a bowling league, where, even as the worst player on the team, the other fellows still slapped her on the back, offered tips, and promised she'd get the hang of it one of these days. Her score never did improve. They just thought Ned was hopeless at bowling. They never thought she was a girl.
In Self-Made Man, an intrepid female journalist goes where no woman has ever dared. The result is an astonishingly sympathetic picture of the male world and how men behave when women aren't around. The ultimate impostor's story, Self-Made Man is an enlightening and human read, as courageous as it is outrageous.
Extract:
Expectation, expectation, expectation. That was the leitmotif of Ned's dating life, taking on the desirable manly persona or shrugging off its dreaded antithesis. Finding the right balance was maddening, and operating under the constant weight of so much political guilt was simply exhausting. Though, in the parlance of liberal politics, I had operated in my real life under the burden of being a doubly oppressed minority--a woman and a lesbian--and I had encountered the deprivations of that status, as a man, I operated under what I felt in these times to be the equally heavy burden of being a double majority, a white man.
UGH, she's so annoying. Anyway!
Poll Game 8, Book 5
Blurb:
Norah Vincent really did date women as a guy named Ned, retreat to a monastery, infiltrate a men's therapy group, get a job in a testosterone-fuelled office and join a bowling league, where, even as the worst player on the team, the other fellows still slapped her on the back, offered tips, and promised she'd get the hang of it one of these days. Her score never did improve. They just thought Ned was hopeless at bowling. They never thought she was a girl.
In Self-Made Man, an intrepid female journalist goes where no woman has ever dared. The result is an astonishingly sympathetic picture of the male world and how men behave when women aren't around. The ultimate impostor's story, Self-Made Man is an enlightening and human read, as courageous as it is outrageous.
Extract:
Expectation, expectation, expectation. That was the leitmotif of Ned's dating life, taking on the desirable manly persona or shrugging off its dreaded antithesis. Finding the right balance was maddening, and operating under the constant weight of so much political guilt was simply exhausting. Though, in the parlance of liberal politics, I had operated in my real life under the burden of being a doubly oppressed minority--a woman and a lesbian--and I had encountered the deprivations of that status, as a man, I operated under what I felt in these times to be the equally heavy burden of being a double majority, a white man.
UGH, she's so annoying. Anyway!
Poll Game 8, Book 5