Li Yinhe talks about sex

Chapter 38 The Primrose in the Wonderful New World

Leslie Cheung's life fell like a meteor.He is a free and open flower in my heart.He surpassed the "two prisons" for men and women, lived freely for 46 years, and drifted away.

An important content of queer theory prevailing in the western world is to challenge the dichotomous structure of male and female, and to challenge all strict classifications. Its main target of criticism is the traditional dichotomous thinking method.Some thinkers refer to this dichotomous way of thinking as a "divided prison" and believe that it is a prison that suppresses people's free choice.Leslie Cheung is such a free man who broke through the "two prisons". He has the courage to choose a free and free way of life: he loves both men and women; he wears men's clothes and women's clothes; Intense and feminine.

The blurred and increasingly blurred gender lines are everywhere in today's world, and a new social fashion is forming.In Sydney, people who broke the gender line held a one-day parade, and thousands of "normal" people saw them and became witnesses of this new fashion.Michael Jackson in the United States is the most famous singer after Elvis Presley and the most famous homosexual folk hero since Peter Pan.His existence is a challenge to the concept of the dichotomy between men and women.George Kid, a British male singer who dressed as a woman, also won the favor of both men and women through this mixed style.Heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality, masculinity, femininity and neuter are no longer biologically determined human nature, but socially and culturally constructed styles.Leslie Cheung is also such a transgressor of gender and sexual norms.

In today's world, due to the evolution of social customs, behavioral norms, and changes in social thinking, a brand-new sexual concept is emerging, which values ​​people more and beauty itself rather than gender.The American "Newsweek" made an interesting report on this new fashion: a man said that his love has nothing to do with gender. I am attracted to women; he said that sometimes, I like the curly hair on the nape of some people, the look in their eyes, or the shape of their lips, but it is not limited to a certain gender. "Another thinks that it is too narrow to look at the admiration between people based on the concept of gender alone. He said: "It seems to me superfluous to constantly question myself from the perspective of personal sexual orientation.A person's excitement can be, for example, the sight of a holly leaf, an apple tree, or a cardinal on a spring morning. "

Entering the 21st century, the ambiguity beyond gender and gender roles is becoming more and more intense.In a psychological clinic, a girl described to the doctor a problem she was having: She wanted to be a man, and a gay man at that.In other words, her biological sex is female, her psychological sex is male, and her sexual orientation is gay.She is a woman, and she loves men, but she does not love men as a woman, but as a man.This is the new situation that people in the 21st century are facing.

Currently, some queer people have humorously referred to themselves as "curvy straight lines". "Straight line" is originally a popular term for "normal people" or "heterosexuals" in English. The term "curved straight line" amply reveals a new trend of blurring taxonomic boundaries.In the future, we will have curved straight lines, gay straights, feminine men and masculine women.

Leslie Cheung's life posture reveals the mystery of that future world for us.He was the primrose of that wonderful new world.

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