Showing posts with label Gender Bender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gender Bender. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2008

Gender Bender

That's my good friend T. That's him, right there, hiding behind my hand. I subtly camouflaged his identity for fear of retribution. But take my word for it, it's REALLY subtle. So T. tells me he's been, on occasions, called a "gender-bender", on account of his rather androgynous features and thin, Don-Diego-De-La-Vega-like moustache. Gender bender? Really??

That little head of mine starts processing. If he's a guy (or so I've been told), and has a moustache (he must be getting double male points for it), why does his being slightly built induce gender bending ? Seriously, do we need anymore labels? I'm sick of hearing names like butch, femme, metro-sexual or guinea pig being thrown around, like flying saucers in a galactic war. I don't understand the need for labelling people and I certainly don't recognize myself in any of them fancy names.
Not "stone cold butch", like this one :
What... Tattoos, piercing, smokes, key chain. Butch ! Anyways.
Also very much not "pillow queen" like her...

And certainly not looking "very-Shane-today" !None of the above. So what am I? What does that make me huh? Think. Moustache. Click. No moustache. Click. More brain processing. Wait. What? Eureka ! I can't file my own bad self right now, but let me force gender and sexuality labels (and sticky ones too) into an equation for you (what? Yes, I like maths...). Here it goes :

moustache = guy
no moustache = girl
so
boy - moustache = sissy
and
girl + moustache = hairy dyke

But here's the best part. If you add the 2 together, you get:
guy + girl = moustache + no moustache

so if I count correctly:
guy + girl = 0

Incredible. Amazing, I know! I have just demonstrated, in a most scientific manner, the universal paradigm that guy + girl = 0 !
In other words: straight = zero,
In other words: not straight = not zero

In other words: be gay, suckers !
Sorry. That's what labels do to me. Screw you, labels.