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