Newsflash: a human being is not the sum of their parts.
wait a second.. i thought that the reproductive organs (and all that go along with them) ARE what defines a girl as a girl or a boy as a boy. yes of course there is the small percentage of babies born with special conditions or issues that blur the gender lines, but much like being gluten intolerant in Portland Oregon, i think a lot of people are convinced that this tiny percentage applies to them when it does not or maybe should not.
please allow me to offer an example of this. i'm sure sometime, somewhere there have been homosexual people who have confused their desire to date the same sex with their desire to be the opposite sex. as proof, look at the acronym LGBT (and however many letters have been added to it since). that sesame street 'one of these things just doesn't belong here' song comes to mind. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual. all sexual PREFERENCES as far as who a person is ATTRACTED to. then theres Transgender. whooole other ballgame there, its own separate thing completely. its who a person feels they ARE, inside. it's no wonder the public still fails to understand gender identity versus sexual preference when the transgendered group tacks their own letter onto the LGB.
i have always been a radical extreme liberal and i admit, i do not go online or to gay friends every week looking for any news on whether new letters have been added to LGBT (last i knew, there were 6 or 7 letters total). does anyone? this is an honest question. what is my responsibility as a liberal citizen? one of the last things i would ever want would be to oppress anyone else, as i am a very nonconventional person with a lot of taboo issues in my life myself (bisexuality, mental illness and a recovering formerly homeless addict)... but i have to honestly admit that the way society acts as if everyone who doesnt volunteer for LGBT causes is intolerant is really starting to annoy me.
i've seen people from the trans camp skewer 'intolerant people' who dared to claim that there actually are only 2 genders. now they call anything other than transgender as its own gender, 'cisgender'. no one ever asked me if i wanted to be called this and i was never informed beforehand that i would be. and there are schools now for young children that make up names for gender prefixes to either ignore the differences between boys and girls or classify them all as one gender. what are you gonna tell the kids when they inevitably ask about why peepees are different from weewees, or will their questions just be ignored? and wtf was wrong with 'boy' and 'girl' ?!? its like that south park episode where whichever one of the boys went college hippie and said that there should be someone who bakes in the town and someone to keep an eye on things and another of the boys says, yeah you mean like..a baker, and a cop? ok so we're not using 'he' or 'she' anymore. what will we call them then.. 'zeep's and 'zoop's? that's about as ridiculous as this is to me. but yet that is the direction we are going in. very quickly.
look, i totally get rebelling against mainstream society, i am the queen rebel myself and i fully support people being who they are and doing what they want provided no one else hopefully including themselves will be harmed or their free will fucked with. but i think SOMETIMES, SOME OF the true intolerants are the ones who make shit up and then lash out at anyone who calls it like it is. its one thing to encourage free choices with your kids (hey, does this make parents who wont let their kids do drugs intolerant?), but quite another to call others sharp, loaded names like ignorant or intolerant for demonstrating any contrary belief or teachings. hmm.. forcefully demanding blind acceptance and agreement from all who are different or were taught differently.. and who is being intolerant here? or like the minority kids in school beating me up when i was growing up in the hood in north sacramento, because i was white. they would complain that the white man did this, the white man did that to my people.. well i may be white but i am now the minority and was actually standing in solidarity with your cause, until you demonstrated the exact racial profiling that you accuse me of. and me, i can honestly say i haven't discriminated against anyone for their race or color or anything like that, but i grew up being assaulted harassed and followed home constantly, all because of my skin color. and who is the racist?!
to me, sometimes the bickering about race seems just as pointless, stupid and damaging as the bickering about peoples terms or beliefs about gender/sexual issues not matching up, or fighting over what they call their god. yes there are societal norms just as there are always situations outside the norm. but i do think we as people have made shit way too complicated in our collective quest to challenge the norm, shock others and push boundaries. much like the gutter punk who gets 20 facial tats and piercings and then gruffly yells 'what are you looking at?' when anyone looks. in SOME cases like the one i just described, i think the attention IS the reason they do it, even if they're assholes about getting that attention. idk, it makes no sense to me either.
yes there are some differences between us. but just look at what we collectively have in common. most of us as people just want safety, security, fun, love, happiness and maybe a lil excitement. that's what matters to me anyway. when will we practice wtf we preach, leave the judgements and the labels and our differences and the mistakes of the past, in the past where they belong, and drop all the bs?
