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Gender bending

So, last night I went to the Drag Show, and boy was that an experience. There's nothing like cross-dressing to make you really appreciate how gender boundaries totally don't exist anymore. Of course, most of us don't see men in dresses and too much makeup prancing around on a regular basis, but we've all seen people who really and honestly could be either. You know you have. In fact, I spent half of my junior year of high school wondering what gender some kid was before I saw him walk into a boy's bathroom.

The simple fact of the matter is: it's just plain hard to tell anymore. Long hair, flat chest, pants, earrings, even makeup... they just don't mean anything anymore. They might all hint one way or another when added up, but nothing's definite anymore.

The internet makes this even more difficult. You've got to take the person's word for it, which I must imagine makes online dating rather exciting. I remember in a Pew Report on online dating that I came across way back when, it talked about how relatively few people are availing themselves of the service. Still, everyone has heard the big names: Yahoo! Personals, eHarmony, Match.com, Chemistry.com, and out of those four, only eHarmony restricts its services from homosexual people.

It's all just very interesting. But anyway, the drag show was fun ^^

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