Thursday, December 8, 2011

"You're Ugly, Too" by Lorrie Moore - Gender?

"...his Magic Marker buttocks turned away now toward all of downtown, a naked pseudowoman with a blue bracelet at the wrist..." I am not very entertained by the gender reversal in the story. The woman appears to have shaven like a man. And the man, if that's what he is, is described in very feminine terms. The irony almost causes humor, but to me, it doesn't. It just adds to our culture of not being able to accept oneself. Today's society has come to accept that if you aren't fully pleased with who you are, you can change that in an instant. It doesn't require work to accept what God has given us. I see this as an easy way out of life. It doesn't bring true happiness and is a disease infecting human nature.

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