Marquel, TPVs NYTimes A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes Section correspondent was looking into his briefs briefly, when he stopped to read Caitlyn Jenner May Face Manslaughter Charge in Fatal Crash.
“Evidence from sheriff’s investigators could lead to a manslaughter charge against Ms. Jenner for her role in a February crash in Malibu, Calif.” Said the Times.
Many readers know Marquel’s position on people with penises. He insists they are men. “That’s the defining feature,” he has said. Oxford University press has commissioned Marquel to a three tome publication, ‘The Penis and Its Implications.” It is a freewheeling philosophical discussion of gender and the penis.
- The first volume is called, “The History of The Penis.”
- The second is “The penis and contemporary culture.”
- The third, Marquel’s personal favorite, is “Got a penis, mister?”
So when Marquel read about Caitlyn and the Times unrestrained reference to her as she, her, Ms, and such, he was unsettled. Certainly people have a right, Marquel would term it a fundamental human right, to characterize themselves as they prefer. But what about the rest of us?
What Marquel meant was if Caitlyn can choose a name she thinks fits–despite that penis that just won’t leave–why can’t the rest of us do the same with everybody else.
For instance, Mr Hillary Clinton is really clear about what he wants. So is the chancellor of Germany. He wants to destroy the birthplace of democracy. And remember Mike Dukakis? She proved early on that woman have a place in the army, or maybe at least in a tank.
Marquel expected resistance.
“I can call myself what I want,” he imagined some extremist telling him, “But that doesn’t give you the right to label me otherwise. You have the right to label yourself only.”
But Marquel couldn’t get his arms around that argument. If male and female are no longer biological, and are now simple preferences and desires, why can’t the rest of us refer to our own preferences and desires in choosing how to see others?
Take me for example. There are some women, not many, to whom I’m not attracted. It may be because they haven’t washed in several years, but normally it’s because they transmit an incompatible vibe. Look at Margaret Thatcher. Not that we were ever close, but he was just never my cup of tea. And the way he ran the government into the ground was no different than what any other right wing man would have done.
Sarah Palin, in the other hand, was and is very aggressive, belligerent, and strong. But she’s still a hottie, so this is neither a political exercise nor a stereotyping of strong women as masculine. There is not much about Sarah Palin that is masculine despite her hard edged politics. I hope.
So Caitlyn can think he’s a girl. But I think he’s a boy. The Times just doesn’t give it a thought.
“Girl or boy?” They appear to ask.Never a follow up–which journalism schools, where I never attended, insist on, like, “penis or no penis?”
The mayor of Venice, Italy, recently banned some books about same sex parents, because they would cause “confusion,” he said. Doesn’t having girls with penises cause more confusion?
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If so, let’s have more but less of it. Let’s call people depending on how they strike us, not how they strike themselves alone. Although it may seem regressive, I’ll bet it’s the most progressive thing we could do.
At the presidential debates, one moderator will say, “Mr Trump, what’s your view?” Another will ask, “Ms Trump what do you think?” Others in the panel, referring to each other, will say, “Take Huckabee, she’s really a democrat,” or Huckabee might say, “when Fiorina said that, he said more than it seems.”
This will strike a blow for gender indifference because it will become simply a matter of opinion. Although, for me, the question will remain.
“Got a Penis, Mr?”
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By MARQUEL: Got a Penis, Mister?
Excellent.
Hillary-ous! (and hilarious)
loved “penis or no penis”
Pitch perfect
ditto
ditto2
Crazy and funny. Pure fuquel!
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