Alrighty, then.

I feel like a slow waitress in the wrong shoes.

But still, one thesis, coming up.

I want to talk about M-to-F transexuals on film and how by disavowing stereotypical male codings on screen, these movies propagate all sorts of negative stereotypical portrayals of females.

This sounds convoluted only because it's multi-faceted, but here goes.

Male characters are typically coded with all the trimmings of strong machismo, so one may assume that a man's pursuit of womanhood would render them weaker/inferior/what-have-you and bump up the typical codings of women. But from the few films I've seen, this does not make womanhood desireable or praised as men make better women than women.

Think Dil.

Going back to that, remember my comment (maybe?) on the transexual M-to-F "woman"--her "lack of a lack is more of a lack" than a "real" woman's "lack" aka vagina. This causes the "real" females around transexuals to carry the burden of the usual castrating female malarkey, except in this event, her castration is of the man's identity as woman.

To try and sum it up, films on transexuals disaffirm typical codings of males and masculinity, but re-affirm conventional (mostly negative) codings of concepts of femininity.

BAMM.