Reading: Kate Bornstein

Something this blog hasn't touched on is my views of gender.  To put it plainly, I absolutely detest the dominate culture's limiting binary views on sex and gender.  For example: your chromosomes are XX, so you have to wear a dress; your chromosomes are XY, so you have to play sports--blah, blah, blah.  And what about those of us who have both XX and XY chromosomes?  Or XXY chromosomes?  Do you see how silly it becomes?  It's a gigantic can o' worms...

Anyways, Kate Bornstein pretty much sums up how I feel. I've been reading some of her books:

And then I found this cheer online today, written by the Radical Cheerleaders:

Coming out Day Cheer: CU Boulder Campus Crusade for Queers

"Yo all you girlz; hey all you boyz,

Leave all the stereotypes bring on the toys.

Y'all ready for rhythm y'all ready for rhyme,

Come on everyone it's gender fuck time

Gender, gender, fuck it we say Life's more fun with gender play.

Gender, gender, it's not what's down there,

Assigning strict roles, that ain't fair.

Gender, gender, it's a fluid thing Fuck their rules we're celebrating.

The gender police, What assholes, Forcing us into gender roles.

Just boy or girl is what they are trying to sew, That silly binary has got to go.

If I wanna wear whitey -tighties with my dress, Who are you messing with my happiness? If I wanna wear high heals and I got a dick, Leave me alone, don't be a gender prick.

So I've got short hair and a big strap-on, You have no right saying its wrong.

Gender, gender, fuck it we say Life's more fun with gender play.

Gender, gender, it's not what's down there, Assigning strict roles, that ain't fair.

Gender, gender, it's a fluid thing Fuck their rules we're celebrating.

BUTCH FEMME FAG DYKE Be who you are dress how you like.

OVERALLS LIPSTICK PANTIES TIES Don't be the gender police in disguise. PRETTY CUTE HANDSOME TOO The secret is, JUST BE YOU

Gender, gender, fuck it we say Life's more fun with gender play.

Gender, gender, it's not what's down there, Assigning strict roles, that ain't fair.

Gender, gender, it's a fluid thing Fuck their rules we're celebrating.

I say fuck, you say gender FUCK, GENDER (2x)

I say gender, you say fuck GENDER, FUCK (2x)

I say gender, you say queer GENDER, QUEER (2x) what'd you say? QUEER!! Coming out Day Cheer: CU Boulder Campus Crusade for Queers


Yo all you girlz; hey all you boyz,

Leave all the stereotypes bring on the toys.

Y'all ready for rhythm y'all ready for rhyme,

Come on everyone it's gender fuck time

Gender, gender, fuck it we say Life's more fun with gender play.

Gender, gender, it's not what's down there,

Assigning strict roles, that ain't fair.

Gender, gender, it's a fluid thing Fuck their rules we're celebrating.

The gender police, What assholes, Forcing us into gender roles.

Just boy or girl is what they are trying to sew, That silly binary has got to go.

If I wanna wear whitey -tighties with my dress, Who are you messing with my happiness? If I wanna wear high heals and I got a dick, Leave me alone, don't be a gender prick.

So I've got short hair and a big strap-on, You have no right saying its wrong.

Gender, gender, fuck it we say Life's more fun with gender play.

Gender, gender, it's not what's down there, Assigning strict roles, that ain't fair.

Gender, gender, it's a fluid thing Fuck their rules we're celebrating.

BUTCH FEMME FAG DYKE Be who you are dress how you like.

OVERALLS LIPSTICK PANTIES TIES Don't be the gender police in disguise. PRETTY CUTE HANDSOME TOO The secret is, JUST BE YOU

Gender, gender, fuck it we say Life's more fun with gender play.

Gender, gender, it's not what's down there, Assigning strict roles, that ain't fair.

Gender, gender, it's a fluid thing Fuck their rules we're celebrating.

I say fuck, you say gender FUCK, GENDER (2x)

I say gender, you say fuck GENDER, FUCK (2x)

I say gender, you say queer GENDER, QUEER (2x) what'd you say? QUEER!! "

 
It made me smile.  ;)



Love this pic!



Beauty Queen

This is another rant.

I've thought about the depiction of women in the media a lot, as I'm sure most women have.  I like "fashion" magazines, and I usually try to avoid the beauty tips which are really just thinly-disguised ads; and the pictures of beautiful women, airbrushed to perfection.  But it's hard not to see the negative message, and I've realized that the content I'm looking for is not worth it, or simply not there at all.  Why am I even wasting my time on these magazines, looking for cool fashion and interesting articles?  When I read The Seventeen Magazine Project a few months ago, I started thinking about these things all over again. 

Let's get down to the truth:  You will never lose the belly flab, have fake lashes from a tube, get rid of the cellulite on your ass, eat less than 1200 calories a day, exercise every day, find Mr./Mrs. Right, become a millionaire in a few years...Why?  Because of biology, physics, airbrushing, and economics!  It's a lot to ask from a person and women shouldn't feel bad if they can't do it all.  Plus, magazines are made up entirely of ads that are meant to make us feel not pretty, too fat, or in some other way inadequate so that we will buy products that don't make us happier anyways.

Fuck you, Cosmo.