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Steve-O asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 1 decade ago

What do you think of the woman who said this?

“I would rather be a man than a woman. If God had made me a man I would have been the worst son of a great whore ever born. Not a woman would have escaped me. Ave María! I’d have a woman everywhere, and if they didn’t give me what I wanted I’d kick my way in. That’s why God made me a woman, a real ***** of one. I’m forty now and I’ve had six husbands, and if I want, I can have six more. I wipe my *** with men.”

--From La Vida, by Oscar Lewis

anthropological study, real woman, real quote.

I posted this a couple of days ago. Curious to get different responses. What's her sexual identity--lesbian, straight, transgender? What's her motivations?

I'm thinking she's a straight woman who has appropriated the male machismo ideal and used it her own way.

Update:

Here's what a psychiatrist said about her, in case you're curious:

[Fernanda] may be described as a woman whose preoccupation with sexuality in a context of a hostile view of the male makes a mature heterosexual relationship highly improbable… Attempts to hide this view of life through evasion or feeble intellectualizations are short-lived and her crude, unadulterated sexuality, and hostility breaks through in a narcissistic exhibitionistic fashion. There is little question that [Fernanda] perceives males as impotent individuals who are ugly, empty creatures with little to offer her emotionally. It might be said that she feels that men are dressed-up penises…since she tends to seduce males on the one hand, and castrate them, on the other, she is forever in conflict with them…there are homosexual tendencies which would be consistent with the low concept she has of men, and at the same time, her identification with them.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Sad, an angry woman leaving a wake of destruction behind her and feeling she is justified in doing so.

    She has no real sexual identity, she sounds like a sociopath, viewing other people as objects to be used for her own wants. She uses men as her example, but I think she uses everyone regardless of their sex, or age, or anything.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Interesting that a guy wrote her. I don't know any women that actually talk this way about men, call themselves a *****. I think Fernanda's a nasty woman with a nasty mouth.

  • 1 decade ago

    Her jealousy of the 'privilege' that men supposedly enjoy seems to be deeply rooted in her own victim mentality.

    'I’d have a woman everywhere,' -- Who's stopping her from having 'men everywhere'?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Feminist victim mentality basket case.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    LOL!!! It sounds like something a guy would say. But hey, whatever floats her boat.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    HA! I wipe my a_ss with men, I'm going to start saying this.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    She is just jealous of men.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hater of all people, especially herself.

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