Ten of swords

Just very randomly – I was re-reading the paper Brandon is writing on gender dysphoria (which is pretty much brilliant, hate to admit it – especially since it came from the mind of someone who thought Nookie is "the most AWESOME song of the century – we need to work through that B). He's using some of the more main-stream transgendered case-studies – Brandon Teena (of Boys Don't Cry fame) and Cam Lyman (millionaire transvestite who was murdered in his 50's – killer still unknown). But he also mentioned a few people who I had never heard of. Billy Tipton was a jazz musician – who had lived as man since the age of 19. It was only when he was discovered dead at his apartment that people realized that he was actually a fully functional 70 year old woman. He had been married a number of times, adopted kids – apparently even his wives didn't know he was a woman. Its so fascinating – that so much of what we perceive as normal may be a completely human construct. Gender and sexual orientation may not be as black and white as we want it to be. I recently read an article that said that, as we evolve, we will become more prone to bisexuality and androgyny … gender lines will smudge more and more. What will it mean for a world where patriarchy is as ingrained as the notion of benvolent, unbiased democracy being the accepted norm? Politics aside – I think its just something to think about it terms of how we relate to one another, how we fan our biases – how we judge things that seem abnormal to us. Its strange that normal, in most cases, may be the minority.