Friday, October 16, 2009

Hands together now...

1 comment:

Dallas G Robson said...

Dear Mr Vic,
Yesterday on the ABC there was a program on Communism in Germany from some of the individual people who lived through it. One person; a past shot put Olympic Champion told their story which would seem to have particular relevance to your story. A young girl was selected by the politburo to work for her country and having trust in her advisors took pills purported to stop her becoming ill; and many other wonderful things besides; she said. Over time as she was quite young and androgynous looking to begin with, she noticed and we could see (in the images of her) a thickening of her features and widening of shoulders and reduction of breasts. I thought she looks masculine but then some athletes do look like this as they workout so fiercely. She commented herself that she had been at the time of being Chosen androgynous in other words her own body had not as yet decided whether to be male or female.
After taking the pills regularly for some years she was turned into a male without her consent. In fact she had no choice but to become a male totally later in life for which she seemed unhappy. She still said she felt like a girl inside. Perhaps if she understood you analogy of the "praying hands" it would alleviate her unhappiness at her enforced situation.