Norah Vincent, the woman in the first video, reminds me of a lot of "man-hating lesbians" that I know. Even when I'm good friends with them, they can't help but display their spite. I don't even think they know why they hate men. It's inherent.... my friend will come to me and say something like "oh you should've seen this guy at the game last night, he was such an ass. You know the type: muscular, tight fitting shirt, thinks he's good looking. Probably full of testosterone." And I'll just stare blankly in silence until it gets a little awkward. Eventually I'll say something like "OK, so how is he an ass"? She'll struggle to describe it any further. She'll just repeat "You know the type." Or she might add "you know, really thinks he's something special, has to talk to all the ladies." My response "OK, but why is he such an asshole." The answer usually ends up being that the guy is arrogant or thinks highly of himself. And I just sit there in silence and think 'you just described me.'
Anyway, Norah didn't seem too bad. I read her bio on Wikipedia. She was fairly conservative for a lesbian journalist for the L.A. times.
"Vincent was described as a libertarian who was critical of postmodernism and multiculturalism.[3] She did not believe that transgender people were the sex they identified as, leading her to be accused of bigotry.[3] In an article for The Village Voice, she wrote: "[Transsexuality] signifies the death of the self, the soul, that good old-fashioned indubitable 'I' so beloved of Descartes, whose great adage 'I think, therefore I am' has become an ontological joke on the order of 'I tinker, and there I am.'"[11]
In Voluntary Madness, Vincent details her decade-long history with treatment-resistant depression, saying: "...my brain was never quite the same after I zapped it with that first course of SSRIs."[12] The mental strain of maintaining a false identity during the making of Self-Made Man ultimately caused a depressive breakdown, leading Vincent to admit herself to a locked psychiatric facility.[13][14]
Vincent died via assisted suicide at a clinic in Switzerland on July 6, 2022, aged 53. Her death was not reported until August 2022."
