gender goooooooglionchotomy.

It is amazing to realize how people around (may it be friends or not) are now more open to the idea of gender flexibility. On the one side, you have people who take the role of preachers on the idea of “coming out”. On the other side, you have the “converts” who celebrate the dogma. And there’s the resistance group in the picture also known as the conservatives.

I think labels for gender is a thing of the past. But still we subscribe to them for the sole function of order. For a subject this vast, you can’t trust the idea of personalized order creation (or ethomethodology if you want to be more technical). You just can’t believe how much effort people give just to fit themselves under a certain genus. Well, have you ever heard of straight-acting-power-bottom? (Whatever that means). Scholarly speaking, you can actually write a 10-page paper just enumerating the labels people subscribe to; the description will give you another 5; and the analysis can give you another 5; equals a 20-page exciting paper.

I can still remember when there was a dichotomy – the male and the female. Then there came a point when society reached a trichotomy (plus, homosexual). Then homosexual was divided into sub categories, which I don’t have plans in enumerating at this point. Can you imagine that we now have a thing in this world such as goooooooglionchotomy for gender?! Crazy, huh.

Well in terms of form, it is also now impossible to tell who’s who. Except for certain cases where a guy wears skimpy shorts, a perky tank top, clips, or whatnot while working the street like a catwalk. The alpha-male image is now a mask; the swishy-washy behavior is deceitful; toughness in girls is usually misrepresented; and people are now masters of make-believe.

Perhaps this event is telling us something: the days for external consciousness and inspection are ready to lie low and it’s high time for introspection. Too much time has been given to care about others and what others will think. I say, if you want to do it, do it while you’re young. At least if you realized that you’ve done a mistake, you can always retract or move forward for better things to happen.

Good night.

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