Am I male or female? Well that just depends...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/8619017/Am-I-male-or-female-Well-that-just-depends....htmlBy Stephen Bayley
7:08PM BST 05 Jul 2011
Old certainties about gender identity are disappearing as fast as a woman in a Maserati, writes Stephen Bayley. 'God, I'd love a pint of beer!" I heard that from my daughter, whose genteel curriculum vitae includes (Camilla's old school) Queensgate, Oxford and the Sorbonne. At the time, she was smoking a cigarette most readily associated with cowboys and wearing workmen's boots. I was so surprised, I nearly dropped my moisturiser. You know, there was a time when a man wearing suede shoes was under suspicion, but when prime ministers spend all day covered in bright orange make-up, snap judgments can be misleading.
Traditional determinants of gender identity in the clothes we wear and the products we use are blurring fast. When asked to tick a box on one of those annoying local authority questionnaires that demands to know whether you are male or female, I am always tempted to avoid a straightforward yes/no answer and write: "It depends."
