I enjoy being a (part-time) girl

[pantryslut]

A few eeks ago, I intended to write a longish post about my recently more visible (yet still quirky and reserved for special occasions) girliness, how much I was enjoying it, and how that didn't mess with my overall gender.

But fuck it. All I really want to say is: a) I'm tired of the gender police in all its forms, b) I'll wear whatever the hell I please outside of office hours, c) I'm really amused at people who do double-takes when they see me in heels or other such accoutrements, d) no, I haven't gone femme, and if you think femme is all about what clothes you wear anyway, where have you been for the past twenty years or so of queer theory?

And also e), I need help deciding what to wear for Guerilla Femme Bar on Sunday. Suggestions?

Comments

[wookiepocket.livejournal.com]

i was thinking of wearing a nice pencil shirt, a fuzzy pink porilla tits vest, and a plain black corset over that.

sadly, i have no fuzzy pink gorilla tits vest.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Did you steal that typo from me or was it independent invention?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that typo is entirely organic and unintentional in nature.

[fightingwords.livejournal.com]

i believe i remember once seeing a photo of your lovely legs wrapped in fishnets.... i vote for those.

of course, that still leaves the rest of you kinda... nekkid. :)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

and cold! At least if I'm out on the patio.

[manomano.livejournal.com]

So you're saying you're not a femme, you just play on in the office? I'll buy that.

Funny how we can talk all we want about how gender is problematized, and yet there's still a bias in the gender-Queer community toward mapping the old stereotypes onto the new forms.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I don't really play a femme in the office. For example, I won't wear skirts to work, but I will for play. (I do sometimes wear them to job interviews.) I tend toward androgynous-looking office wear, in fact. But I've definitely been trying to conform to some sort of ideal about downtown office-appropriate wear lately.