MandyPhillips
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Joined: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:41 pm Posts: 25
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I don't really know how relevant this is, but...it keeps coming to mind during our discussions in class. I don't know how many of you have seen the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but it's basically about the experiences of a struggling transgendered rock star whose penis was cut off while living in Berlin so that she could marry an American man and pass the medical inspection for the marriage license. She dresses as a woman, but sort of lives life as a third sex that's not really male or female, and is looking for her soulmate, not really knowing whether it will be a man or a woman.
It's an interesting movie if you ever get the chance to see it. Anyway, I keep having the lyrics from this song stuck in my head, so I thought I would share them. It's sort of about the theory that there are really three sexes.
When the earth was still flat, And the clouds made of fire, And mountains stretched up to the sky, Sometimes higher, Folks roamed the earth Like big rolling kegs. They had two sets of arms. They had two sets of legs. They had two faces peering Out of one giant head So they could watch all around them As they talked; while they read. And they never knew nothing of love. It was before the origin of love.
The origin of love
And there were three sexes then, One that looked like two men Glued up back to back, Called the children of the sun. And similar in shape and girth Were the children of the earth. They looked like two girls Rolled up in one. And the children of the moon Were like a fork shoved on a spoon. They were part sun, part earth Part daughter, part son.
The origin of love
Now the gods grew quite scared Of our strength and defiance And Thor said, "I'm gonna kill them all With my hammer, Like I killed the giants." And Zeus said, "No, You better let me Use my lightening, like scissors, Like I cut the legs off the whales And dinosaurs into lizards." Then he grabbed up some bolts And he let out a laugh, Said, "I'll split them right down the middle. Gonna cut them right up in half." And then storm clouds gathered above Into great balls of fire
And then fire shot down From the sky in bolts Like shining blades Of a knife. And it ripped Right through the flesh Of the children of the sun And the moon And the earth. And some Indian god Sewed the wound up into a hole, Pulled it round to our belly To remind us of the price we pay. And Osiris and the gods of the Nile Gathered up a big storm To blow a hurricane, To scatter us away, In a flood of wind and rain, And a sea of tidal waves, To wash us all away, And if we don't behave They'll cut us down again And we'll be hopping round on one foot And looking through one eye.
Last time I saw you We had just split in two. You were looking at me. I was looking at you. You had a way so familiar, But I could not recognize, Cause you had blood on your face; I had blood in my eyes. But I could swear by your expression That the pain down in your soul Was the same as the one down in mine. That's the pain, Cuts a straight line Down through the heart; We called it love. So we wrapped our arms around each other, Trying to shove ourselves back together. We were making love, Making love. It was a cold dark evening, Such a long time ago, When by the mighty hand of Jove, It was the sad story How we became Lonely two-legged creatures, It's the story of The origin of love. That's the origin of love.
_________________ Mandy Phillips
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Justin Pittman
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Joined: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:41 pm Posts: 85
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People keep telling me that's a good movie.
Since we're on tangents, someone sent me a gender-bending commerical from Britian that is fascinating to watch, and I thought it fit the current discussion ... although, viewer discression is advised; nothing obscene but European TV is a little spicey... it's an alcohol commerical afterall
Campari "The Secret"
There was a fiesty thread about what the commerical meant on a blog; basically some people, like me, found it fascinating that the characters were still attracted to each other after they swapped genders.
_________________ Justin Pittman
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