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Genitalia as Social Constructs

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At a death anniversary last week, I found myself feasting at a table with just men, while all the women chattered, joked and laughed away in the kitchen, where they had prepared all the food, but then Vietnamese men have other duties, not least of all the ghastly task of war. There's a proverb, though, "With the enemy at the house, women must fight."

If a woman felt like boozing with us, she was absolutely free to do so, and one did join us for a toast of beer. While it's wrong to codify or criminalize the differences between men and women, it's perverse to see them as inherently harmful, to be overcome.

Vietnamese don't "raise boys and girls the same way," according to the Western progressive dictate, and they're not striving for a postgender society, where cultural, biological, psychological and social roles of gender are finally banished, as if that's possible. In the postgender utopia, anyone can be pregnant and father a child, although "father," that bloody, stinking and oppressively patriarchal word, should already be flushed from the lexicon.

Now in America, a single person can assume the plural pronoun, "they," or be called "ze" or "xe," because merely "he" or "she" may be inappropriate or hurtful.

The term "transsexualism" was coined by Magnus Hirschfeld, the founder of Berlin's Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft, whose lifespan coincided with that of the Weimar Republic. Hirschfeld categorized 64 genders, so it's really de'j vu all over again.

A sexual decadence ground zero, Berlin gave the world Anita Berber, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, then came Hitler. Since America is convulsing through its own Weimar, which of its artists, writers, composers or dancers will be remembered? Maybe nobody. Thoroughly philistine, this listing ship can't produce one memorable minstrel. Perhaps Drake is America's poet laureate, "Got no sense like jizzle and shh / Big and bad like leader and shh." Whatever, but who are pushing this sh*t?

American child, you won't be taught how to be a boy or girl, for those are harmful, reactionary concepts, and your national borders will mean nothing, for no person is illegal, and race is but a chimera dreamt up by racist minds, although collectively, you will either be guilty as all hell, or never culpable, as determined strictly by your race.

As Stalin said, "Education is a weapon," and there is a concerted effort by the state, media and academy to neuter the American mind.

By besieging, indicting and belittling traditional masculinity, America's rulers aim to enfeeble and neutralize half of its citizens, while enraging the other half into a propensity for cartoonish violence, resulting in a society of sheep and mindless soldiers.

With its twin cocks publicly castrated and its founding principles hacked off, the US itself has become a shrieking, floundering void, thrashing in a homemade stew of incoherencies. Transitioning, Uncle Sam stumbles towards irrelevance. Again, who are pushing this sh*t?

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Linh Dinh's Postcards from the End of America has just been published by Seven Stories Press. Tracking our deteriorating socialscape, he maintains a photo blog.


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