Punk rock.
Someone wrote…
I identify with music more than I ever did with masculinity and femininity. I wonder how many weird looks people would give me if I started telling people my gender was “punk rock.”
What’s your experience?
Posted by julian on September 6th, 2010 at 08:00 am
Category: your voice 56 comments »
September 6th, 2010 at 10:27 am |
That is an amazing idea. Ahhhahah. I think you should fo it despite the looks people might give you(:
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September 6th, 2010 at 10:59 am |
brilliant!
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September 6th, 2010 at 11:25 am |
Hahaha, so awesome!
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September 6th, 2010 at 11:32 am |
I was visiting some dear friends this weekend and it was decided that the gender of one of them is “Lou Reed.” So I certainly wouldn’t give you a weird look. <3
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Joel replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 11:42 am
If your friend’s gender is Lou Reed, then I guess it’s okay for mine to be David Bowie.
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Molly replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
This is Paige’s friend, my gender identity is in fact Lou Reed and my sexuality is David Bowie :D
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Anonymous replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Such love!
Joel replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Marvelous. I, too, am Bowiesexual.
Quince replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Wow, I’m a Bowiesexual also :D
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Elle replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I can’t claim to be Bowiesexual at this stage in my life, but I admit to being Labyrinth-curious.
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Gabriel/Sam replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
LOL Love it.
jimothy replied:
September 15th, 2010 at 6:51 am
Gabriel/Sam, Molly, Quince, Paige, Joel, Anon, Elle:
couldyoujustlikemarrymenowbecauseyourconversationtotallymademydayandIloveyouallbyethnx xxx
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September 6th, 2010 at 12:29 pm |
If your gender identity is punk rock, would it be crossdressing if you decided to put on a cowboy hat and boots for the day? Would being a little bit country and a little bit rock ‘n roll make you bigendered? :)
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Cole replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I have to say this is brilliant. If there’s someone on this planet who identifies this way, I want to meet them.
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Anonymous replied:
September 12th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
No, because punk rock means wearing whatever you want : )
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September 6th, 2010 at 4:00 pm |
great idea! my gender is minimal =)
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sofias. replied:
September 13th, 2010 at 10:59 am
oh yes, minisexual glitchgender :D
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September 6th, 2010 at 4:20 pm |
My gender is alternative ;]
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September 6th, 2010 at 5:11 pm |
My gender must be indie. Figures.
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September 6th, 2010 at 6:33 pm |
“Classical” gendered–it must be the period wigs.
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September 6th, 2010 at 7:04 pm |
Then my gender is rock. I think I pull that one off already. If someone told me their gender was “punk rock” or “David Bowie” I would give them a high five.
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September 6th, 2010 at 7:09 pm |
This is soooo great!!! I totally know what you mean. Also, I think I might be alternative gendered as well…but then again, folk gendered sounds good too. Depends on the situation…maybe I’m musically-fluid?
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Keanan replied:
September 6th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I could go for that too. Maybe a mix of rock and alternative and world music. A mix of U2, Peter Gabriel, early Genesis, and some punk, Indian, and Celtic music thrown in (and a bunch of other stuff). I like being able to mix two of my interests music and gender into one.
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September 6th, 2010 at 8:10 pm |
I think I’m musically fluid as well, but I have to say my sexuality is Adam Lambert…
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Kai replied:
September 7th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
I love this! I’m not attracted to Adam Lambert, per se, but I think that everything he stands for as a person is how I’d like my potential significant others to act/dress/be/whatever. “Always dare to sparkle harder” and “androgyny” are the two things that inform my sexuality and gender. Yay!
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September 6th, 2010 at 8:15 pm |
My gender for much of the time is Lady GaGa, and I totally identify with this.
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September 6th, 2010 at 8:47 pm |
My gender is the Moulin Rouge soundtrack!
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Joel replied:
September 7th, 2010 at 7:56 am
I think I could be a Nature Boy and a Diamond Dog, definitely. But I guess that’s cheating since both songs are connected back to David Bowie.
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September 6th, 2010 at 8:51 pm |
My gender is Sigur Ros-ian
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September 6th, 2010 at 9:42 pm |
When I first started to think about androgyny, it was because I noticed that in the emo scene, the first filter people used when discerning who they were attracted to (and who am I kidding, I was doing it too) was “emo”, and gender followed that. I like thinking of sexuality in terms of filters like that, with gender as a lower priority than an overarching culture or scene. These days, the same applies for me but in the punk scene.
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September 6th, 2010 at 10:44 pm |
My mom was able to believe I was a hetero female because I told her “nuh! punks have short hair” or “punks wear pants” when she’d say “that shirt is dykey” I’d say “nope its just punk”
I definitely think bowie as a gender works, dakota fanning in the runaways movie, totally captured it
also: I think bowie itself is a genderful variety of expressions http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2137
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Joel replied:
September 7th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Definitely. Bowie is a wonderful shapeshifter. With David Bowie as a gender, you can be glamed out like Ziggy Stardust or as reserved as the Thin White Duke.
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kendall replied:
September 7th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Indeed, thats the whole thing, if you feel like lightning bolts or eyepatches or just bein’ hunkydory then do it up sir or madame..or..rather..rebel rebel/rebelle rebelle? I have been awake forever, I got nothin’ but bowie is brilliant. cha-cha-changes couldnt possibly be an anthem for anyone on this site though, eh? ;)
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September 7th, 2010 at 12:23 am |
Nobody’s said their gender is new wave yet! Why? :P
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September 7th, 2010 at 2:18 am |
My gender is so indie!
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September 7th, 2010 at 5:53 am |
Mine is so Twee-Pop.
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September 7th, 2010 at 9:48 am |
Mine’s some kind of metal… probably symphonic power or something similar :D
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Eliot-Anna replied:
September 14th, 2010 at 9:37 am
::high-fives you:: My gender is also symphonic metal! With undertones of operatic metal, and a little David Bowie and Janelle Monea to keep things interesting.
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September 7th, 2010 at 10:22 am |
my gender is 2-tone! :)
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September 7th, 2010 at 10:48 am |
I’ve had the urge to express myself as goth rather than male or female for years now, but I’ve seen what’s being done to those three labels and none of them really fits. So I’ve mixed my personal images of them with some black metal (my favorite music genre) and got myself something I really enjoy but have a really hard time explaining… and an even harder time expressing, especially with my mother insisting I shouldn’t be allowed to look like a “freak”.
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September 7th, 2010 at 12:38 pm |
This is brilliant! I have no gender, and probably the closest thing I have to a gender is my musical taste – metal. I *like* other music – but metal is always the fundamental.
It’s great to know that other people have been thinking this kind of thing as well.
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September 7th, 2010 at 2:37 pm |
I am afraid that my musical gender is just as scatterbrained as my biological one. Eclectic Esoteric
But I love Bowiesexual and wish I could claim it for my own.
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September 7th, 2010 at 10:59 pm |
My gender is punk rock, too! I’ve been trying to articulate that for a long time, and now I think I’m going to quote you constantly :)
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September 8th, 2010 at 7:22 am |
I want to say I identify as post-rock but I don’t think I’m epic enough to warrant that XD
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September 8th, 2010 at 10:43 pm |
I truly love and feel this comment so much. And maybe this is off-topic, but I hate it when non-punk people look at the punk community and label things “punk males” and “punk females,” because I think the truest aspects of punk are where those distinctions disappear. It’s hard for people to wrap their head around the idea that “I’m not doing this because I want to be a guy; I’m doing this because I’m punk.” I’m not in a pit to prove my masculinity; I’m in a pit because that’s where I belong. I don’t paint my nails because it’s girly; I paint them because that’s how I say “fuck you.” People who come in and split up punk, especially hardcore, into irrelevant labels are so infuriating.
Long live the indifferent super-gendered punks!
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September 9th, 2010 at 12:36 pm |
DO IT!!!
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September 9th, 2010 at 12:37 pm |
My orientation is nerd and my gender is classical :D
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September 13th, 2010 at 6:18 pm |
My gender is 30s showtunes.
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September 13th, 2010 at 10:10 pm |
My problem is I can’t figure out if I’m a coin operated boy or a girl anachonism
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Anonymous replied:
September 14th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
C: Dresden Dolls reference: yipeeeee!
My musical gender: “sex changes” by DDolls : confused, angst ridden and flighty. X)
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September 14th, 2010 at 2:41 pm |
Oof, i think identifying your gender with musical genres is even more likely to provoke adverse responses from the serious musical geeks…
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/\/\ replied:
September 14th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
ALL THE MORE REASON TO DO IT, OBV xxx
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September 14th, 2010 at 2:51 pm |
HAHAHA! Nice! Hmmmmmmmmmm… my gennnddderrrrrr is… “uh-huh-her” era pj harvey. OOh – no no no – it’s david bowie: “Boys keep swinging”! NO – rocky horror picture show soundtrack! Gotta be! Oh bloody hell, i’m the on the verge of creating a “my gender in music” playlist. :O
… On second thoughts, let’s not go there. i dont need to do that. i don’t have that much time on my hands. at least, i like to think that i don/t. >_> *totally goes off and makes playlist*
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September 14th, 2010 at 4:02 pm |
All of these comments fill my soul with insurmountable joy. I love you, genderforkers!
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September 15th, 2010 at 6:58 am |
What Dorian said. This page is LOVE.
My gender has GOT to be “being a girl” by Mansun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xlJnipdpSc
My orientation is Karen O.
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September 15th, 2010 at 7:01 am |
Me and my freind just got into a big discussion about this. He actually said to me: “Now way!! My gender is more punk rock than your gender! >.< " Then we fell about laughing. i love genderfork.
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