"Let's Talk about Sex, Baby..

I like this conversation that my classmate shared in class while discussing Queer Theory.

If I remember correctly, it was an interviewer asking a male in drag about "what he is"..It went a little like:

"Are you gender-queer? Transgender? Gay? What do you identify as?"

The man just chuckled and answered "I'm a sexual being. I am what I am." And walked away.

It's a little silly how we come up with words with the intention of clearing things up, but in reality a lot of them just end up complicating pretty simple things.

Alright, maybe not simple, but things that don't actually need to be condensed into a word.

Like gender. Definition, as a function, limits concepts into smaller, more digestible chunks. We assign groups of letters and sounds in certain groups we call words, and in groups of words, to build concepts and ideas. But we have to remember that it's not exactly the concepts and ideas we build, but merely, ways to communicate these concepts and ideas.

I love the word queer for this reason. It's so inclusive. It's actually a more natural way to be, I think, compared to the actual social norms. Because all of us are queer one way or another. I think the only reason why some of us always walk within the lines is because they feel subordinate to these lines. Not exactly because it's what they want.

I'm queer in a way that I like both boys and girls, gay people of both sexes, people of all ages.

But is that really eccentric anymore? I really don't think so. For this reason, I don't think queer should be identified as a word meaning weird and unusual, because our reality is that we will keep establishing weird things into parts of the norm, as we slowly accept the reality of these things, and how they are natural and not perverse. Maybe queer should be looked at as a word that means anything that hasn't been captured by the "identity police" yet. XD

I personally believe that love should be free, and even this word queer should be a temporary word, a temporary sanctuary for exiles of the so-called norm. One day when the norm implodes, we won't need this word anymore. We'll all just be humans.