This again is why I despise Prince William and Prince Harry. There’s a crackdown on possession of firearms in England, but the only people we ever see with guns are the stupid Royals, yet nobody says anything! I think violence is ingrained into our societies because of the abattoir or slaughterhouses, and we usually find that however a person is allowed to treat animals is also the way they feel entitled to treat humans. On the subject of gender, I think Gertrude Stein was the first image I saw of someone who just wasn’t prepared to follow on behind. But it isn’t always simply a question of heterosexuality or homosexuality. There are as many variables in heterosexual society as there are in homosexual society. Describing a person in terms of their sexuality actually tells you nothing about that person. The human race is a lot more varied than we are generally encouraged to believe. So, I therefore found such as Gertrude Stein to be interesting because their androgyny seemed to unite male and female in one, and didn’t close off any new or further experiences, which sounds very healthy to me. This is why early David Bowie and Patti Smith seemed like messengers, yet most of us still live in societies that insist upon painfully limited gender roles, and the assumption of male heterosexual rightness is still the absolute face of global politics.
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