your rock god andromorph
(Mama, I love you, but someday we are going to have to sit down and have a talk about sexual and gender identities. Especially the ones that are not 'gay', 'straight', 'female', or 'male'.)
I've always thought genderqueer people were super cool. To say no, fuck that, I can be both, I can be neither. I've only recently realized that most of the sexual/gender identity labels I've spent a long time thinking were cool are actually ones that I have. (Asexual? Yup. Aromantic? Pretty much. Lesbian? Girls are super pretty. Sure!)
Anyway, I got the title of The Magician is a Drag King and a few of the lines ([. . .]what makes a man a man. name one thing I couldn't buy at the five-and-dime or the costume shop) stuck in my head today, and I happened to mention them to my mother. She said something about "oh, there's one thing you can't buy-I mean, even if you're a gay man, you're still a man, right?" and rrgh. I was too tired to say much, and my brother came in and they started talking, but all I wanted to do right then was to go strap myself into a binder and dress like St Just out of Oniisama E.
I have always been willing to fight to be a woman, to be femme, to show that I can be all these things that are supposed to make those up and still do what I want. This is the first time I've ever wanted to fight to be a man.
I feel it's important for me to be a girl, for me to like heels and lipstick and shoes. But I should be able to be a dude if I want to, dammit, so don't you dare tell me I can't.
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I've always thought genderqueer people were super cool. To say no, fuck that, I can be both, I can be neither. I've only recently realized that most of the sexual/gender identity labels I've spent a long time thinking were cool are actually ones that I have. (Asexual? Yup. Aromantic? Pretty much. Lesbian? Girls are super pretty. Sure!)
Anyway, I got the title of The Magician is a Drag King and a few of the lines ([. . .]what makes a man a man. name one thing I couldn't buy at the five-and-dime or the costume shop) stuck in my head today, and I happened to mention them to my mother. She said something about "oh, there's one thing you can't buy-I mean, even if you're a gay man, you're still a man, right?" and rrgh. I was too tired to say much, and my brother came in and they started talking, but all I wanted to do right then was to go strap myself into a binder and dress like St Just out of Oniisama E.
I have always been willing to fight to be a woman, to be femme, to show that I can be all these things that are supposed to make those up and still do what I want. This is the first time I've ever wanted to fight to be a man.
I feel it's important for me to be a girl, for me to like heels and lipstick and shoes. But I should be able to be a dude if I want to, dammit, so don't you dare tell me I can't.
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