Huh, that blogger interpreted 'Sex Changes' totally differently to how I did.
"So I guess it's about a girl whose boyfriend--or, possibly, girlfriend--is getting bottom surgery. And she [the narrator] seems to think that the surgery is both addictive and unnecessary (she references a charade.) Of course, it could also be about someone who's getting an abortion. It's ambiguous."
I read that song as an emphatic NEITHER OF THE ABOVE. I read it as using gender affirmation surgery as an (admittedly both appropriative and clumsy) metaphor for adolescence and losing one's virginity and other milestones and changing and becoming different people. And it's from the point of view of the person undergoing the change. I mean, she says 'you', but she does that in other songs where she's addressing herself, not another person.
"But I think the whole charade is ending It seems to me to be the only way to keep from getting Caught up in a long life of regretting"
They're reading those lines as implying that being trans* is a charade, I read them as implying that not transitioning would be a charade - a charade that this character is ending.
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Date: 2013-10-16 12:17 pm (UTC)"So I guess it's about a girl whose boyfriend--or, possibly, girlfriend--is getting bottom surgery. And she [the narrator] seems to think that the surgery is both addictive and unnecessary (she references a charade.) Of course, it could also be about someone who's getting an abortion. It's ambiguous."
I read that song as an emphatic NEITHER OF THE ABOVE. I read it as using gender affirmation surgery as an (admittedly both appropriative and clumsy) metaphor for adolescence and losing one's virginity and other milestones and changing and becoming different people. And it's from the point of view of the person undergoing the change. I mean, she says 'you', but she does that in other songs where she's addressing herself, not another person.
"But I think the whole charade is ending
It seems to me to be the only way to keep from getting
Caught up in a long life of regretting"
They're reading those lines as implying that being trans* is a charade, I read them as implying that not transitioning would be a charade - a charade that this character is ending.