We all do it. We stereotype, we judge, we say things like, "That's not very manly." There's nothing wrong with it. It's an unfortunate truth of our society. We think we know everything about what it's like to be the other sex. But recently I learned that we really don't know what we're talking about.
This past Fall Break, I was required to go to the Asian Pacific American Film Festival for one of my classes. The last show was a live performance/documentary called "Macho Like Me." It follows director, Helie Lee, during the six-and-a-half months she spent living as a man. Why? According to her website, "the idea for this journey was spawned out of anger, resentment, naivet
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