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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: Book Club #59 | Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Connor, Harry & Dan discuss Norah Vincent's autobiographical account of masquerading as a man for eighteen months, Self-Made Man [:] My Year Disguised as a Man, and the sympathetic insights to the plights men face contained within.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this book club for Norr Vincent's self-made man and I am joined by Harry and Dan

0:07.3

Fantastic so howr he knows nor Vincent's backstory

0:11.2

Off air you were saying you didn't, I've read the book and I know that

0:15.1

she's a New York liberal, a feminist and a lesbian. Was.

0:19.2

Razz. The primary term here. Yes, now this is very interesting because this was last year, I believe,

0:27.3

nor of instance sort assisted suicide.

0:29.8

In Switzerland, I believe, wasn't it?

0:31.2

Yes, after experiencing severe depression

0:33.7

because of the events of this book.

0:35.5

So that casts a lot of things in a very dark light.

0:38.3

And this book was initially researched in the early 2000s as well.

0:41.7

So it was a long while coming.

0:43.8

2006.

0:44.8

But came out 2006.

0:46.2

The research probably would have been done over the course of I don't know.

0:48.6

It was 18 months.

0:49.6

18 months from maybe 2003 to 2005 or around that period.

0:53.7

To give the views the context here, this book is about a woman who spent a year, two years,

0:59.6

18 months living as a man. No surgeries or I think she just basically disguised

1:05.7

herself through acting and costume and all that kind of stuff to be as I'm actually

1:10.0

wanted to get the male experience. Yeah this this wasn't any sort of expression of transsexualism.

1:14.6

She makes it very clear throughout and she reveals herself to a number of the people

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