Working on Enlightenment as a Girlie Boy
I've found that most intellectuals have trouble accepting anyone who doesn't adhere to their ascribed gender at birth. In other words, if you are born with a penis, you find yourself under a lot of pressure to look and act male. And vice-versa. But is this the way everyone should be? I say, how we present gender, in spite of what we have or haven't got between our legs, is a personal freedom, that shouldn't be messed with. Soo the fact that there is a lot of resistance to this freedom, confronting this control pressure, and overcoming it, becomes a path toward enlightenment. But the problem is very deep rooted. Since we all depend on money to survive and we are all born into a culture where money is controlled by a few people who want more power and more control, at any cost to the people they control, most of us live the way these control freaks tell us to. The big question is, what happens when the controls freaks call us in for dinner ...