Everyone sing along: "Are you a boy...or are you a girl?"

June 6, 2000 3:14 PM

Everyone sing along: "Are you a boy...or are you a girl?"
posted by solistrato (9 comments total)

This is almost unbelievably cool. I've never heard of a company being so accomodating.

I'm also impressed with whoever it is that made sure not to let the unnamed employee's past or future gender slip.

-Mars
posted by Mars Saxman at 4:07 PM on June 6, 2000

The story seems like puffery to me. A private bathroom with a shower? That's an $8,000 investment that can pay off for all their employees, who will now be able to come in straight from the gym without having to go home to shower first / stay late or even overnight and still be presentable in the morning / etc. etc.

I'm sure the employers had that benefit a lot more in mind than the comfort of their one ts employee.
posted by wiremommy at 4:56 PM on June 6, 2000

What amazes me about the surgery is that anyone ever finishes it. Why be either? If I ever decided to get such drastic surgery done, why would I want to be just a woman or just a man? You can be both at once. Technology can bring about the rebis, the two-in-one.

And the male shall become female, and the female male, before they shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Gnostic gospels are always the most fun. Seriously, I think sticking with the same old biological variables is boring. Go nuts! Why not push the envelope and re-define what's surgically possible? Once, transforming a penis into a intercourse-functional vagina was considered science fiction, now it is done everyday. Well, has anyone tried to build one out of other tissues? Sure, we think it's impossible now...everything's impossible until you try. Likewise, penile construction is still in its infancy...let's try harder, people!

Man, I am in a damn strange mood today.
posted by Ezrael at 7:11 PM on June 6, 2000

uhuhuh, he said "harder" beavis. uhuh uhuh.
posted by aki at 7:25 PM on June 6, 2000

Man, aki, you are just stabbing my last throbbing nerve over and over and over and over again, you know that? :)
posted by Ezrael at 9:27 PM on June 6, 2000

The FU'S gave us "T Sux" in 1982, little did they know. Now we only need Evolution Control Committee to meld "T Sux" with "Jet Boy Jet Girl" and offer on napster as "Charlie on the MTA (asex restroom mix)" and then we can all move to Canada.
posted by decontrol at 10:35 PM on June 6, 2000

The FU'S gave us "T Sux" in 1982, little did they know. Now we only need Evolution Control Committee to meld "T Sux" with "Jet Boy Jet Girl" and offer on napster as "Charlie on the MTA (asex restroom mix)" and then we can all move to Canada.
posted by decontrol at 10:37 PM on June 6, 2000

Yeah, well, one of the goals of alchemy was to achieve the rebis, but was it supposed to be literal?

Although how good is the surgery? I mean, granted, the only literature I ever read about the operation was in Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex and that was 30 years ago and the info is dated. But I mean, do the new genitalia function properly?

Curiouser and curiouser...
posted by solistrato at 7:58 AM on June 7, 2000

I could care less abou the story.

I just want to know if solistrato's title to this tidbit - (Everyone sing along: "Are you a boy...or are you a girl?") is a reference to the song "Boy or Girl" on Imperial Drag's self-titled album.

If so, hats off to solistrato. Imperial Drag is definately one of the most ignored masterpieces of the 90's.

posted by ooklah at 8:26 AM on June 7, 2000