I did get angry about this stuff before. But I can’t stay angry forever so I’ll settle for being mildly annoyed.
a) There is a new film called “It’s a Boy Girl Thing”. I know this because I watched too much tv with my family over Christmas.
i) If I woke up in someone else’s body I think I would be running to the doctors, or at least trying to figure out what happened to me properly, in fact you might say it would occupy all my time. I would most definitely not just pretend to be that other person and get on with life in a ho-hum sort of manner. I would be pretty fucking scared.
ii) Ok so a boy and girl switch bodies. Apart from the obvious ‘shit I’m in someone elses body’, this is no big deal. Why does it have to be a big deal. Why is everyone so fucking obsessed with this bollocks idea that boys and girls are so different that to live in the body of the opposite sex for a while would be really hard to cope with. THEY’RE JUST ANOTHER FUCKING PERSON.
iii) Maybe I didn’t go to enough sleepovers as a teenager (which is likely cus I think I went to maybe two max.), but do any girls seriously have pillow fights in their underwear? Does that never seem a bit gay? I mean, I know I like girls, but even if you’re straight would you not be thinking, hang on this is a bit erotic? Its one step away from mudwrestling. And no-one can be naive enough to think thats all about the sport.
b) We get the Guardian at work every day so I generally peruse part of it on my tea break. In the G2 there was this Womens section about issues that are going to be important for women in 2007. Or possibly issues that were important in 2006. I didn’t read it. It was wank. This is why:
i) Practically everything in the Womens section is about fucking procreation. I know its a big part of life for some women, but to those women I say get a fucking life. I’m female. I’m also gay which means that unless I want to undergo IVF or something, children aren’t going to feature much in my life. In fact my life is not going to revolve even remotely around issues of pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, childcare, taking a break from work to have kids, etc. Ok I have periods, and will at some point go through the menopause, but this is not a big feature of my life. They’re just annoying hormonal things. I don’t want to read about how other women cope with them, not cus I’m one of those annoying women who think periods are gross (get over it, its just your body), but because its not fucking interesting.
ii) It doesnt even have that much to do with me being gay. Even if I fancied boys I would still be bored to death by all the ‘womens’ crap. Its kind of insulting in a way. ‘You are a women, therefore you should be interested in this.’ I guess you get the same kind of thing with men and the things that are marketed to them. Its just, jeez, broaden your interests outside your little gender world.
ii) I am still female despite all the crap about children not applying to me. So either the Women’s section should apply to me, or they should stop calling it a Women’s section and call it something more appropriate. Cus its not like I care if people write about childbirth or any of that, I know I don’t have to read it, so I don’t. What annoys me is that they are labelled women’s issues. Like somehow they can never be interesting or relevant to men. Take abortion for example. Thats not a bloody women’s issue, its a person issue. Its about human rights, personal freedom, and control over your body. And things like childcare, they should be the concern of everyone, not just women, not just mothers. Yet still its relegated to the women’s pages. Its kind of devaluing all that stuff y’know. Its women things so it doesnt come under the general heading of important issues but is sidelined into a little ‘Womens’ box.
I hope this left you with the same kind of ‘blah’ feeling it gave me after writing it.
