burning down your house

[macabre_grrl]

I read this: Emo: Where The Girls Aren'tSometimes I think punk rock as an entity has more to offer than its human inhabitants can realize. The potential is there. The courage and creative thinking it demands is huge. It's part of the paradox of being forever young: you think you know everything, but you may or may not be able to really look

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But human brains like labels and categories and names, and to some extent, I can't fault that. I would venture to say that it's okay to express yourself as masculine or feminine as you so choose. But firstly, there are many masculinities and femininities, and secondly, you should be able to declare your gender as you wish, regardless of what is in your pants.

And then this begs the question of what "masculinity" or "femininity" entails. I think really the issue is that there is a collection of human traits and behaviors, period. But for some types of people, denoted by genitals, certain behaviors are acceptable and others are unacceptable, thus giving us the categories of male and female.

This is wrong and unfair a lot of the time, but you could argue that these categories make life easier in a quick-fix sort of way. The plurality of human experience is dizzying and complicated, and making up rules, justifications, taboos, and culture codes helps people make sense of what is going on around them, for better or for worse. It's like brain functions on a macro level.

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