4. Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent is a journalist who decided to become a “gender spy.” She went undercover as a man for 18 months, going by the alter ego, Ned Vincent. She wanted to know whether she would be treated any differently if she was perceived to be a man.
Vincent was committed to her transformation, she glued stubble to her face, took voice lessons to speak like a man, and wore a jockstrap to make her physique more realistic.
Her book “Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised As A Man” was published in 2006. She depicted her social experiment that she became more fully realized the benefits of being female and the disadvantages of being male.
Vincent wrote: “Men are suffering. They have different problems that women have, but they don’t have it better. They need our sympathy, they need our love, and they need each other more than anything else.”
