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Vincent was a Senior Fellow at the Foundation For The Defense Of Democracies , one of several neoconservative think tanks in the United States, from its 2001 inception to 2003 . She has also had columns at '' Salon.com '', '' The Advocate '', the '' Los Angeles Times '', and the '' Village Voice ''. Vincent's most recent book, '' Self-Made Man '', retells an eighteen-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a male. She talked about it in HARDtalk extra on BBC on April 21, 2006 and described her experiences in male-male and male-female relationships. She joined an all-male bowling club, joined a men's therapy group, went to strip clubs and visited Catholic monks in a cloister. She dated women and describes how inferior she felt, when judged by women during flirting: the harsh way in which many women pre-judged her, assuming all men to be essentially the same, turned her, albeit briefly, into a "temporary misogynist", seeing as most women never can the failings of her own sex from the other side. Vincent writes about how the only time she has ever been considered excessively feminine was during her stint as a man: her alter-ego, Ned, was assumed to be gay on several occasions, and features which in her as a woman had been seen as "butch" became oddly effeminate when seen in a man. Vincent asserts that, since the experiment, she has never been more glad to be female. REFERENCES |
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