The androgyny strain
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/497480 (http://www.thestar.com/living/article/497480)
Toronto Star, Canada
September 21, 2008
In the 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, author Ursula K. Le Guin
contrives a world inhabited by a genderless population, a sort of
middle sex who only become either male or female when they are, shall
we say – courting. Her imaginings, one of the first to articulate
gender as fluid and relational, according to a recent issue of OUT
magazine, explores the broad possibilities for a world in which people
are human first – then male or female.
I guess it's nice to make believe, but it doesn't do any good for those of us stuck in real life. I wish I could just crack open my own head and allow my soul to go it's own way. Maybe it would settle into some body that is more fitting.