Post 3 (playing with fire)

Reflection post on “playing with fire” specifically the interview with Maria.
I found myself a little confused while reading this interview. I understood that Maria found the need to justify her feelings of attraction towards other women in the context her family, religious and cultural values, but I don’t agree with her perception of the male. In the interview she says she took on the role of the aggressor and told her first girlfriend not to look at other boys. She then goes on to essentially say that she always kept multiple girls on lock. In some ways I can see how this is taking on the role of a male, but in other ways I think this demonstrates a distorted and unfriendly view towards men by Maria. She brags during the interview that most other men would be jealous of her because she’d taken the virginity (vaginal penetration) of 7 girls without having to marry them. This part especially confused because I don’t think this is a natural impulse of men – to take virginity. I was actually a little bothered that someone would have this impulse and I wondered after that comment if Maria justifies all her actions by calling them male. I wish the interviewer had brought up this idea more: the jaux de postion between Maria’s perception of males and typical actions of males.