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05 Gender Song

from No love for a nation 7" by Landverraad

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When I was a kid I loved playing with cars. I loved playing “war” with the boys. I had mostly male friends. I hated dresses and skirts, loved fighting sports and climbing trees. When I was 10 my best friend was a guy who I'd lend my dolls to for him to play with (because he was ashamed to ask his parents to buy him dolls). In return I’d play with his cars. As I got older, in school, I started feeling the pressure of my class or schoolmates to fit into a certain stereotype of femininity. I asked my mum to buy a couple of skirts, I started wearing make-up, shaving my body hair, doing all things “girlie”. I guess around 16 I started thinking more for myself and I went back to being a tomboy, a role that came much more naturally to me, though having influence on my social life. Each one of us has a story like this – a story of your life through a gender prism. There are things each one of us did that do not fit the feminine/masculine label, make us weird in the eyes of the general society. Erasing the norms and creating your own gender – these are the things we can do in our everyday lives to fight the gender standards forced upon us in this patriarchal society.

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Is there a way to forever unlearn
The fascist standards we're fed from birth?
That dictate our gender, define our relations.
Help me destroy it - down to a fraction.

A girl will wear pink
And a boy will wear blue
But if the hair is cut short
Then we don't have a clue.

Here's your high expectations
And here's your glass ceiling,
Rationality or drama,
Emotions? Conceal it!
Ambition? Oh really?
Forgot you're a girl?
Settle for less
And please wear a skirt.

It's a rough world we live in
And my hands are tied
If you don't feel like your genitals
Join the dark side.

I feel my feet moving,
Beyond my control
Escaping this branding
Is a biological urge.

I'm my own gender
Make your own gender
Destroy the sexes as the culture intends them
Male/Female - fuck off.

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from No love for a nation 7", released December 25, 2012

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