2006 Self Made Man: Norah Vincent chooses Female Privilege over Male Privilege

Lesbian Feminist Norah Vincent lives as a man for 18 months, goes nuts and is happy to get back to life as a woman. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2006 Review by NYTimes ’Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back Again,’ by Norah Vincent Vincent’s status as a woman is what makes her observations of male behavior fresh - introducing herself to some guys in a bowling league, she’s touched by the ritual howyadoin’, man-to-man handshake, which, “from the outside . . . had always seemed overdone to me,“ but from the inside strikes her as remarkably warm and inclusive, worlds away from the “fake and cold“ air kisses and limp handshakes exchanged by women. But in its best moments, “Self-Made Man“ transcends its premise altogether, offering not an undercover woman’s take on male experience, but simply a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall look at various unglamorous male milieus that are well off the radar o