Subject: Re: Cross-dressers
From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Date: 1991-01-24, 12:40
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jan24.182943.25508@watserv1.waterloo.edu> alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) writes:
> >[theories about Denise's cross-dressing...]
> >1) perhpas the male role makes him tense for some reason and a female
> >identity frees him from that tension.

What role is this?  Ask 10 men and you get 10 answers.  I would hazard
a guess that walking around as a woman in our society is probably more
tense than as a man.  Men and women are treated differently.

> >3) perhaps he grew up with strong female models of behaviour and few
> >if any male role models so he knows how women should act but does not
> >know how to act as a male...

That would require growing up free from television, magazines, newspapers,
advertisements, and novels.  Unlikely.

> >4) perhaps as a man he is aware of the 'power' women have to cloud
> >men's minds and he wants to add that power to his arsenal of effective
> >weapons in his work. He is already a physically powerful, trained and
> >armed FBI agent, but perhaps being sexually desirably to the men he
> >works with makes him feel even more powerful and therefore more relaxed
> >and confident.

Not a bad theory.  It worked on Jean Renault.  If Jean Renault had been
homosexual the plan might not have worked.  Pretending to be a woman
only gives Denise control over some men but not others.

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