[Serious] Please convince me gender is binary

[bennyboy]

People certainly seemed to think they were at the time.  I;m sure that you can remember comments like that from the rock hatin previous generation that told you to cut your hair and dress like a man, you girly bum. 

My memory is that the jocks were constantly calling the long-haired guys faggots all the time, and that the long-haired guys were pretty regularly banging the jocks' girlfriends in the backs of old-model Chevy Impalas with Metallica blasting.  I'd say that was a pretty fair exchange.

I got especially teased because I took cooking and typing electives instead of shop classes.  They'd make jokes about my tampon dropping out or whatever.  That was until those fucking dumbasses saw me hanging around all the time with girls. . . eating my delicious mac 'n' cheese that I'd learned how to cook, and their girlfriends running their fingers through my hair and saying how silky and awesome it was.

*disclaimer I'm skipping the part where I got beat up pretty regularly, and where about 1/2 the girls in those classes were pretty sure I was gay*

Of course, once I ended up on the streets and made my glorious comeback a couple years later as a confirmed criminal, my rep from all fronts improved pretty dramatically. The principal asked in front of maybe twenty students to see what was inner lining of my Levi's jean jacket (we used to slash a hole in it, so basically the whole jacket was a giant pocket for contraband). He was looking for a gun, but he pulled out a mickey of Lamb's navy, a package of rolling papers, and a clipped-out photo from a Playboy magazine that I'd thought I'd lost. It was only through incredible social incompetence and a constant obsession with computer programming and nothing else that I managed not to get laid every day after that.

Aw, memories.  *sniff*