Luisa Jiménez’s Reviews > The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory > Status Update

"Those of her traits that he thinks of as distinctively female, which in another situation would irresistably draw his attention, now may go virtually unnoticed, and she becomes 'one of the boys.' Confronted with the dissonant appearance of a female person in a situation where he is unable to block out the fact that she is a person, he blocks out the fact that she is female."