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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} U.S. Male - Inside the Box by Lisa Worrall Inside the Lives of Female Maskers. B eing comfortable in your own skin is difficult enough. But what if expressing yourself requires you to alter your identity? German photographer Corinna Kern spent several months in Germany capturing the lives of various “female maskers” – predominately heterosexual men who wear a latex mask and bodysuit resembling a woman to embrace their femininity. Her first real encounter with a female masker occurred by coincidence while walking the streets of Germany. Curious, the photographer soon discovered female maskers have a thriving online community that remains taboo to the public. “It’s not very big,” Kern tells TIME. “So many people are quite far away from each other so it’s not really that you find people meeting up regularly.” Female Maskers isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Kerry, an American female masker living in Seattle began a business dedicated to making realistic female masks in 1996. A 2014 British documentary called Secrets of the Living Dolls followed the lives of males who go through the motions of being a masker at the risk of being ostracized by society and their loved ones. While the documentary introduced the subculture to mainstream audiences, Kern mentions some she talked to were hesitant to participate in her project because the documentary portrayed them as “freaks,” something she kept in mind when photographing her subjects. “I think it’s a natural thing for me not to capture them in a freakish way,” she says. “It’s just something that goes along with my photography, my style of photography because I’m very open minded. As I go along I’m learning about their backgrounds and their motivations.” One of her subjects, Chris, 49, has 10 aliases (six female and four male), three which Kern displays in her photographs. Some of his aliases include: Romy von Dornfelder, a blonde shown in the woods and at home; Cecilia McArthur, a brunette who poses in the grass and is also shown in workout attire; and Nicole van Diesten, who is covered from head to toe. Another veteran in the German female masking scene, Christian, whose alias is Chrissie Seams, loves to play up with her looks with dresses, accessories though her most distinguishing feature is her long, wavy black hair. While Christian enjoys being a female masker due to his latex fetish, Chris fondness for female masking goes beyond his love for lycra. “Wearing the mask, I don’t feel like a different person,” he tells Kern. “That only takes effect when I look at the photos that I take of these. I then see the fictional characters I create, reflecting a counterpart of myself, a desired partner or something that I lack but wish for.” When it came to being out in public, the range of emotions were mixed. Christian, dressed as Chrissie Seams, enjoyed being out in public where most onlookers were curious and looked on in admiration. Others only felt comfortable dressing up at home, and even then, they remain trapped in their own skin. “It’s so much part of their identity sometimes,” Kern says. “It becomes so much a part of them they have an urge to tell it. But then at the same time, they don’t want to be rejected.” Bianca Silva is a writer and contributor to TIME LightBox. Follow her on Twitter. Don't See Steve Jobs Without Reading This First. Steve Jobs, the new Aaron Sorkin-written, Danny Boyle-directed film about the late Apple co-founder, is out Friday, Oct. 9. The film is split into three acts, each centered around a different product release helmed by Jobs—the Macintosh in 1994, the NeXTcube in 1988, and the iMac in 1998. The movie, based on former TIME editor Walter Isaacson’s biography, avoids biopic birth-to-death tropes. But beginning in medias res can be confusing. Here’s a spoiler-free guide to who’s who in the film. The Leadership Brief. Conversations with the most influential leaders in business and tech. Thank you! Contact us at [email protected]. The late co-founder and CEO of Apple, clearly. After being forced out of the company in 1985, Jobs founded NeXT, a computer company focused on high-end machines. A struggling Apple bought NeXT in 1997, bringing Jobs back into the fold. He heralded the company through a massive turnaround, launching hits like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Jobs died Oct. 5, 2011 of complications related to pancreatic cancer. Jobs was given up by his birthparents and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, an experience that many say colored his worldview significantly. The marketing chief on the original Macintosh, Joanna Hoffman also followed Jobs to NeXT. She was known to be one of the few people seemingly unaffected by Jobs’ legendary “reality distortion field,” the name given to the executive’s seeming ability to get people to believe what he wanted them to. Kate Winslet, the actress portraying Hoffman in the film, recently said that Hoffman “did genuinely love” Jobs, and that “she misses him terribly.” Steve “Woz” Wozniak co-founded Apple along with Jobs. Wozniak designed the Apple I and much of the Apple II. He and Jobs had a love-hate relationship: Wozniak was a firm believer in the 1970’s-era computer hacker and hobbyist movement, which led him to push for Apple’s machines to be open and changeable by consumers. Jobs, however, felt simplicity to be the better route, thinking that too many options served only to confuse less-educated shoppers. John Sculley, a longtime PepsiCo executive and marketing expert, was convinced by Apple and Jobs to become the company’s CEO in 1983. Sculley and Jobs enjoyed a warm relationship at first, with Jobs as the product guy and Sculley the marketing guru. Before long, however, the partnership soured as the two tussled for power. Jobs attempted to get the Apple board of directors to oust Sculley; Sculley in return convinced the board to limit Jobs’ responsibilities. Shortly thereafter, Jobs left to found NeXT. Eventually, unfriendly market forces and a series of product flops, including the ill-fated Newton PDA, resulted in Sculley’s dismissal from Apple. Chrisann Brennan was Jobs’ girlfriend. They had an on-again, off-again relationship for years. When Brennan became pregnant in 1977, Jobs denied the child’s paternity. After Chrisann’s daughter Lisa was born, a paternity test proved Jobs to be the father. He initially questioned those results, telling TIME in 1983 that “28% of the male population of the United States could be the father.” Jobs also denied naming Apple’s Lisa PC after his daughter, though he later admitted to biographer Isaacson that was exactly what he did. Jobs would later reconcile with Lisa, leading her to change her legal name from Lisa Brennan to Lisa Brennan-Jobs. How Refusing To Conform To The "Man Box" Makes Men Better Feminists. Since the feminist movement picked up steam in the 1960s and transitioned from one ideological wave to the next, one tenet has remained constant: both women and men must band together to achieve a more egalitarian society. Promundo, a global organization that promotes gender justice through research and policy development, is dedicated to engaging boys and men worldwide to challenge the most severely ingrained gender norms. Earlier in 2017, Promundo began studying the "man box" to determine how best to transform what it traditionally means to be "masculine." And in Trump's America, the findings are more consequential than ever. Sexism is oftentimes rooted in gender norms that have become so accepted, they’re barely noticeable. And exposure to these gender norms begins during boyhood. "Children start facing norms that define 'masculine' and 'feminine' from an early age," UNICEF's page on "early gender socialization" reads. "Boys are told not to cry, not to fear, not to be forgiving and instead to be assertive, and strong." According to Promundo founder Gary Barker, these societal expectations can contribute to sexist behavior later in life. So, Promundo launched a new study, "The Man Box: A Study on Being a Young Man in the US, UK, and Mexico," alongside Axe to map out the consequences. “[The man box has] been a term used by advocates and colleagues working in the field of pro-feminist men's work for a very long time, referring to just the notions that boxed us in about what it means about men,” Barker explains. “That we're not supposed to ask for help, that we have to show our dominance over women and over other men, that we're more likely to fight than have a dialogue about it, and that we're told these things sort of from the moment that we're born.” The "man box" and toxic masculinity aren't new concepts — Promundo's study builds upon findings from numerous others on masculinity. For example, as far back as 1992, Dr. Ronald Levant created the Male Role Norms Inventory, which evaluates how strongly a man conforms to masculine ideologies prevalent in the western world including aggression, homophobia, and restricted expression of emotion, among others. In 2007, research conducted by both Levant and Katherine Richmond suggested that men who adhere to these ideologies are more likely to fear intimacy, be sexually aggressive, and feel hesitant to seek out psychological help. Of course, no one is forcing men to fulfill these outdated expectations and harass or assault women. An individual is always responsible for his or her actions — and that will never change.

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