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...McDermott on "Big Shots" and William Baldwin on ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" -- engaging in sex with transvestites. What better symbol could there be of the emasculation of television's men and the chicks-with-dicks attitude toward its women?
I always appreciated the men who were comfortable being with me prior to my operation. They were secure enough in their masculinity to get close to me, despite what others might have thought if they knew. So they seemed particularly strong.
PS "Chicks-with-dicks": A nonderogatory term for those of us born this way is "transgendered female".