Gender Is Boring

I never wanted to be a princess

I never asked anyone to braid my hair

I never asked my mom to buy me things that I saw on the TV marketed towards girls

I never wanted to wear a dress

And I was never obsessed

With the color pink, or sparkling things

Or unicorns or fucking fairy wings

Gender never really meant that much to me

Till' people started telling me how it was supposed to be

Till’ the people that I loved started to say

Boys don't talk that way

Boys don't dress that way

Boys don’t act that way

You see the problem I have with gender

Is that I'm not even sure whether

I know what I mean when I say I'm a girl because I feel that way

'Cause boys can wear dresses and makeup

Anyone can wear whatever they want

Girls can have short hair and muscles

And that's where I run into trouble

'Cause if I use she pronouns, well, what does that mean?

Am I reinforcing a gender binary?

That I don't believe in

That I don't adhere to

I say I'm a woman, what’s that supposed to tell you

Gender doesn't tell you a damn thing about me

Doesn’t tell you what I like or how I act, it doesn't tell you how I speak

The people you love, they don't love you if they say

Boys don't talk that way

Boys don't dress that way

Boys don’t act that way

And I think it's time that our culture moves past

This fucked up notion of the way we act

Is it dictated at birth or that we have to choose

It's an imposed binary, either way we lose

So do what you want

And dress how you feel

Don't let anyone tell you that gender is real

It's useless, oppressive, and boring

Worthless, and hurtful, and stifling

I think it's time that we put it in its place

So come on let's force gender into an early grave

I never again want to hear anyone say

Boys don't act that way

Girls don't act that way

Boys don't act that way

Boys don't act that way