CHAPTER NINE: BREASTS

From: Transgender Tapestry | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

There are few things in my universe more complicated, more complex, more dependent on context than breasts. Every time I think I have reached a place of conclusion about them, some further question asserts itself and I am once again hopelessly mired in the muck, trying to generalize about something about which one ought not generalize. I think that I have formulated a thesis, and then it turns out to have more holes than my favorite socks. There is nothing I can say about breasts from A Butch Standpoint, no way I can make even one statement about butches and breasts that I feel confident is ...

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