Men and women are different Jessica Lovejoy
When men do things that are either exclusive to or typical of women, that looks like crazy to a lot of people in the audience.
And when women do things that are exclusive to or typical of men, that looks like crazy, too.
Your article is written as if you just discovered, for the first time, that men and women are different.
Nobody illustrates the importance of respecting those gender differences than people who transition from one gender to another. The pain of Chaz Bono, when he was trapped in a woman’s body, is characteristically different than the broken expectations of long distance, show business infidelities. Nevertheless, Mr. Bono’s need to be a man, viewed as a man, and treated as a man is understood on Twitter as an unimpeachable human right. We do a disservice to those trapped in non-conforming gender roles when we fail to recognize that different expectations and experiences accord with different genders — a fact that has been reflected in the pronoun self-selection trend that seems to be sweeping social media. (For the record, you may refer to me using the gender-neutral title of ‘Doctor’ and the masculine pronoun ‘he’).
I’m not excusing the fan who taunted her at the show. Her response doesn’t sound “crazy” to me. It’s sounds pretty damn entertaining, which is her business.
The difference between men and women in this case is not in how they handle hecklers, it’s in what it means to them afterwards.
Nobody thinks to feel sorry for a man who was heckled at his show. Only women are entitled to the protection of social media mobs.
Men are on their own.
