Self-Organizing Man

Meredith Streep gives Jennifer Vanasco a good arse-whooping in her piece, Playing Our Parts in ‘Genderfuck.’

Skirts, heels, lipstick, slacks, ties and cropped hair are visible expressions of gender. But the aesthetics of gender are not the agents responsible for tiering femininity and masculinity into a dominant and sub class.

The values assigned to the two genders are the real foundation for society’s gender ghetto, so they’re the most in need of dismantling.

As Vanasco unintentionally but poignantly demonstrates, we equate vulnerability, weakness, inanity and reticence with femininity. Conversely, that which is masculine or butch is inherently strong, smart, “emotionally savvy” and competent.

Brava!  Brava! Brava! (And thanks to Maria at Daily Dose of Queer [which all of you read everyday, right?] for this reference).