Claudius is still Claudius, Bolingbroke is still Bolingbroke, and Katherine is still the victim of a male wish-fulfilment dream of revenge, no matter what gender or mode of dress.
"This is the tip of the iceberg of what gender identity is going to look like in the future," he said.
Furthermore, the issue of what gender one is attracted to is seen as an issue of taste or preference, rather than as a moral issue.
This whole reimagining of what gender is, and how social norms should adjust to it, is one of the major cultural faultlines of the age, and I hope more comedians (both cis and trans) explore it fearlessly in their work.
When your family dances around the question of what gender you date: When your family doesn't feel comfortable asking you upfront if you're into men or women, they come up with all kinds of jumbled, bizarre, awkward ways to dance around the question.
At the end of "We Killed," as much too easy proof that her book has gotten nowhere on the question of what gender means in comedy, Ms. Kohen includes this thought from Chelsea Peretti, who has written for "The Sarah Silverman Program" and "Parks and Recreation": "So it's a great conversation to have with your therapist or with your best friend if you are feeling down about it someday.
They deconstruct gender and destabilize our most basic interpretations of what gender actually is.
I am shaped by narratives of what gender is associated with my anatomy and what behaviors and traits I should possess because of that narrative of a gender.
I am feminine, being a "femme" is part of who I am and what I do, but I'm finding myself wanting to fuck with perceptions of what gender means, what really is feminine.
