Sunday, August 3, 2008, 10:22 PM
What makes a Man? (or Woman)
Went out to mug at WLB with ljx. Finally managed to throw math out of the window. Woots. But thats besides the point. After leaving the library, I was waiting for my dad at Yishun MRT.
I saw this old man, but what's so special about this old man. He was wearing a earring, on his left ear, dressed in a mini skirt, and heels 3 inches high. Well, you get what I mean. Then, out of the blue, a group of adolescents walked past and shouted "Ah Kuah" (Sissy) at him.
My dad was late, and that 15mins gave me crucial time to think about the incident. The key point that struck me 1st was really, what makes a man,afterall, why would a man want to change his sex?
Is it genetic? Perhaps his body simply produces a heightened amount of oestrogen. Or could it be environment, maybe his parents were she-males? Though that's highly unlikely too. Afterall, while considered open to Asians, we are still a conservative society in Western eyes. Or perhaps, a failed marriage. If that was true, I find it really sad for a man to turn in his manhood in light of a failed relationship. Finally, and I sincerely hope not, a passion, a "crime" of passion? He simply admires the opposite sex so much he wishes to be part of it. Afterall, he was sashaying in the MRT station's main area for quite some time.
A second thing that struck me- the group of teens that walked past and called him a sissy. True, they were boys, but what they did, to publicly humilate a person, does that qualify themselves as men? As machoinstic. Does society consider men who behave in a barbaric way as men? I guess not.
Well, what makes a man? Your call
