Summary of Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man

By IRB Media

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#1 I went out as a man, and men stopped staring at me. I was shocked, but it made me realize how much I took for granted being a woman.

#2 In 2003, a guy I knew passed as a woman for a short while to see how men treated him. He found that they treated him very differently, more respectfully.

#3 I needed a name for my character. I chose the name Ned, a nickname from childhood that had long since fallen out of use, but which was intimately tied to the project at hand.

#4 I was a tomboy, and I wanted to be able to dress like a boy without getting stared at. I eventually decided to pass as a boy, and it changed my life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350000177

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had my first experience passing as a man when I went out in drag. I had always wanted to try passing as a man in public, just to see if I could do it. I passed, but not many people noticed.

#2

I began thinking about passing as a man in 2003. In 2003, I watched a reality television show on the AE network called Two Men and a Woman, in which two men and two women competed to transform themselves into the opposite sex. The producers didn’t have any interest in the deeper sociological implications of the show.

#3

I wanted to be able to pass in costume in the daylight, so I decided to build a man named Ned. I got the name Ned when I was about seven. I got it because Norah is a hard name to nick, but mostly because nothing but a boy’s name really made sense when you saw what my parents were faced with in their only daughter.

#4

The nickname Ned was given to me because of my tomboyish behavior, which was also caused by my brothers being older than I was and having girls friend groups that I didn’t. It meant that I was the last one picked for kick ball, and the lousiest tagalong sister.

#5

I decided to become Ned, and I spent a lot of time and effort to make it look like I had no ass or tits. I consulted a makeup artist friend of mine, who told me about a facial hair technique that might work for me on the street.

#6

I had to be careful not to get too heavy with the stubble, as my skin is much smoother than a man’s. I bought two pairs of rectangular frames to accentuate the angles of my face.

#7

I began to transform my body by lifting weights. I consulted a trainer at my local

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Lazy, repeated quotes over and over and over and over again. An insult to Norah Vincent's work.

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