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Mens fashion this fall -- gentlemen, please, pay attention. actually it is fur is the new thing for men. this fall. and its fur from the nutria. sounds interesting, i suppose. there it is. it is a gigantic aquatic rat that roams the bayou along the gulf coast of this country and grows to be -- i dont know, two, two and a half feet long. weighs about 20 pounds. mens designer, no joke. mens designer, billy reed using nutria in his fall 2010 collection as a fur lining for hats, gloves and jackets. ...

Okay. some people are taking a look at male studies. and carol costello can explain it much better than i. heres her story. >> reporter: mad men, the tv show, many contemporary mans fantasy. in 160s america, men were men. today, what would you say the state of men is right now? >> males are at a point now where theyre experiencing a considerable amount of dismay and uncertainty, and somewhat scorned in minprinciple by fema. >> reporter: he is a group of professors, all men, who has a discipline,...

Explore the male as male, masculinity and the lives of boys and men. sounds like a weekend on my uncle sals yacht. rather than being a bookend to the pile of womens foundations, many are openly hostile toward feminism. a researcher on the hatred of men and boys, quote... >> [laughter] >> going to be involved in male studies, there is some fundamental issue of femininism. >> wow. get a stroke there. lets take a look at the state of maleness, shall we?

>> thats my intentions. >> i appreciate this. >> i started -- i guess started what you would refer to as the transition of a transsexual. by doing the electrolysis and then after that you do kind of wonder, physically, do i have the stamina to go through what its going to take to change a gender? ive joked with other folks that it takes a real man to become a woman because its extremely painful. a transsexual you kind of feel like youre bringing something out thats deep within as opposed to cros...

Many of us were saying. that you cant break us apart. the reaction of the trans community was a mixture of anger, frustration, disappointment, confusion. >> i think that you cannot legislate acceptance of transgender people when people -- when the general society has such a fundamental misunderstanding of what being transgender is. >> when you start to say that people who deserve rights are people who look a certain way or act a certain way based on other peoples acceptance of masculinity and fe...

Electrolysis and the hormone treatment. you do kind of wonder, physically, do i have the stamina to go through what its going to take to change a gender. i joke with other folks it takes a real man to become a woman because it is extremely painful. a transsexual, you feel like you are bringing something out that is deep within as opposed to cross dressing where you are concealing your masculinity. you are removing a shell and sort of letting what is there come out. >> steve is actually been very...

Later. which was so contrary to what so many of us were saying. that you cant break us apart. the reaction of the trans community was a mixture of anger, frustration, disappointment, confusion. >> i think that you cannot legislate acceptance of transgender people when people -- when the general society has such a fundamental misunderstanding of what being transgender is. >> when you start to say that people who deserve rights are people who look a certain way or act a certain way based on other ...

>> when you start to say that people who deserve rights are people who look a certain way or act a certain way based on other peoples acceptance of masculinity and femininity, you lose sight that many of us cant fit into those boxes and you fall into the same trap of being judged based on other peoples perceptions. i was furious. there was a significant amount of backlash towards susan. there is still a very vocal component of the community that feels that susan is a sellout, that susan is a tra...

Act a certain way based on other peoples acceptance of masculinity and femininity, you lose sight that many of us cant fit into those boxes and you fall into the same trap of being judged based on other peoples perceptions. i was furious. there was a significant amount of backlash towards susan. there is still a very vocal component of the community that feels that susan is a sellout, that susan is a traitor. i do believe she has made the journey for herself lonelier than it has to be. and that ...

I started that i was transitions to a transsexual, doing the electrolysis and the hormone treatment. you do kind of wonder, physically, do i have the stamina to go through what its going to take to change a gender. i joke with other folks it takes a real man to become a woman because it is extremely painful. a transsexual, you feel like you are bringing something out that is deep within as opposed to cross dressing where you are concealing your masculinity. you are removing a shell and sort of l...