{"id":881,"date":"2010-01-07T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2010\/01\/881\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:45:00","slug":"881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2010\/01\/881.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">And in one oral transsexual account an anonymous male-to-female expresses her alienation from her male body in terms of being encased, surrounded by a false skin: \u201cI used to look at my body and think it was a bit like a diver\u2019s suit, it didn\u2019t feel like me inside.\u201d<\/span><br>\u2013Jay Prosser, <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Second Skins<\/span>. Prosser doesn\u2019t draw out what to me might be the most striking aspect of this metaphor: the diver swims in an implacably hostile environment, the coldest depths of the ocean. This metaphor expresses the basic move of Catholic theology in which, when Eve and Adam fell, the whole world changed with us, became suddenly hostile and predatory and <span style=\"font-style:italic\">wrong<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in one oral transsexual account an anonymous male-to-female expresses her alienation from her male body in terms of being encased, surrounded by a false skin: \u201cI used to look at my body and think it was a bit like a diver\u2019s suit, it didn\u2019t feel like me inside.\u201d\u2013Jay Prosser, Second Skins. 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