sexuality


MANSPLAINING A GUIDE FOR GAYSSEXISM:


by dr. greg cason


Q: HOW MANY FEMINISTS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN A LIGHT BULB?


A: That’s Not Funny! A JOKE OR A FACT TO YOU? Those who see the answer as a joke, are viewed as callous chauvinists


who need to be launched into deep space. Those who see the answer as a fact, are seen as humorless snowflakes who need to be locked away in a safe space. To me, it is a sad commentary on our times that it can’t be both. For many in the gay community, talk of gender and sex discrimination


has morphed from a worthy topic of discussion to a minefield of criticism from other members. Maybe that’s because some are lagging behind? After all, trans issues have become hot in the media, a powerful woman received more votes in a presidential election than her straight, white, male rival and legions of women and men across the nation marched in honor of women, wearing pussy caps. Last Halloween, I attended a “lesbian, feminist haunted house” that featured leather-clad, dom grannies and a feminist “hall of shame” featuring Beyoncé and Lena Dunham. (Seriously, did you know we were supposed to turn our backs on Lena Dunham? And Beyoncé?!) At the end of the fem-


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maze, I was corralled into a lecture with a genuine, imported, Ivy League professor who told us that we are now living in a “post-gender” world. Really? Gender not only doesn’t seem to be a thing of the past, it seems


more amplified than ever. On one side of the spectrum, you have people checking birth certificates


for use of a public restroom and on the other, you have a full-bearded man breastfeeding his child from his hairy bosom in the middle of the mall. All the while, both sides are daring you to say anything, so that they can explode with moral indignation and outrage. Sex and gender has become such a hot-button issue that many are afraid


to touch it, including me…I am a male cisgendered person (which basically means I was born with a male equipment AND consider myself a male). That “cisgender” word has gained ground as of late, to differentiate the trans people from those who were born with equipment that matched their brain—or as one trans friend of mine often says—“RG’s” (real girls). Frankly, I don’t like saying “cis,” which is too close to “sis” (indicating


one of my three sisters) or maybe “cig” (short for cigarette). I also don’t like it when one person asks you to refer him or herself as “they,” in much the same way I don’t like it when people talk about themselves in the third person or use the royal “we.” Let’s face it, as a white-privileged, cisgender male, I am especially unqualified in experience and enlightenment to talk about gender in today’s world.


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