June 2011
6 posts
Anonymous asked: what do you think of @malevitality on twitter?
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Sex, Identity, and the Tyranny of Gender
I’ve always loved being pretty. As a child, I never wanted to wear pants, always dresses. I wanted my hair braided in ribbons, I loved pink and purple, I was fascinated by my mother’s makeup and perfume. I’d go off to preschool in my feminine finery, settle in to play dolls with the rest of the girls, and… inevitably I’d be bored. Why couldn’t we pretend we were...
“The point of the gay rights movement is to allow more people to be themselves....”
– Andrew Sullivan on never entering the closet
