Blurred Youth: Cross-dressing's dirty laundry: Clothes do not define sexuality
By Julie Nitori
Posted on December 11, 2012
http://www.dailytitan.com/2012/12/blurred-youth-cross-dressings-dirty-laundry-clothes-do-not-define-sexuality/ Color, size and shape. Things that hold no gender and no sexual orientation. But when held in the hands of a person in the form of fabric, stitched into something more coherent and aesthetically pleasing to the human eye, it suddenly takes an attached meaning.
American culture not only consumes, but it consumes in a way that is appropriate to assigned gender roles. It is not enough for us to enjoy our products out of our own personal self-satisfaction, for we must adhere to the weight of societal pressure.
The idea of cross-dressing is one that is highly challenged, yet there is no logical meaning behind that notion other than that clothes in our society are tailored to appeal in a way that is gender-specific and appropriate to ideas of masculine and feminine.
The problem with America's perception of clothing is that we also attach sexual preference to ideas such as cross-dressing, which is completely untrue.
Coming from the personal perspective of a boy who enjoys cross-dressing as a girl and who wishes to embrace all things feminine, I am still completely comfortable in expressing what my actual sexual preference is: women.
