The code of conduct of an ideal ‘bro’ includes celebrating the entitlement heterosexual men commonly share in talking about their girlfriends, hook ups and dates not in a manner that celebrates the agency of the women’s sexuality, but how she got fucked, and how he “wrecked” her pussy. That this problematic language does not invoke…
Tag: Gender
Call Me ‘They’: What It’s Like To Live Without A Gender
I needed to reflect the ‘agendered individual’, not as someone who was starkly different from the way the men characterize themselves in appearance, but someone who looks just like them. I wanted to take everything that they, and I, had used to create power for us and fear for the rest, and turn it on…
The Ugly Grizzly Bear
I genuinely wanted to know if boys hated their body hair like most women do or are conditioned to do. I asked most of my male friends. All of them replied in a very careless manner. Some of the replies were “ Oh! I don’t know. Never thought about it.” “Yes, body hair looks bad…
Rum and Samosa
Bundles of Navy shore black bracelet and a holy red thread in one hand. She had an expressionless expression. She slept with different boys every night and made coffee for them, to leave. She told me that Kafka gave a theory that during an era, human body separated into two and thus “they complete each…