Ayahuasca, Wisconsin: "American as Football"

The misperceptions of the town folk.

I’ve always found sexuality to be over-rated especially currently.  I really don’t think anyone truly cares about another person’s sexual identity whether these are people on the left or right of the political spectrum. In most cases I have wondered if it’s not narcissistically enjoyed by a person to express their sexuality outwardly. It’s definitely been the history of the male and female genders to do so for centuries. On the other hand, I don’t know how a bearded fellow in a dress could be offended by a snicker or two if they truly are comfortable with their representation of themselves.

The definitions of masculinity and femininity seem to have blended all together.  I have no general feelings about it, but I wonder what led us to our issues today whether they are important to society’s development or collapse.   

Most of the USA’s cultural or societal issues are developed through corporate media or an agenda put forth to the media. It always seems like these issues grow out of the media to help divide people further in their ideologies.  These divisions are developed to create discourse between people and protect the wealthy Elites from the U.S. workers.  It’s similar to the sleight of hand trick - look over here rather than what is happening. The deeper people get into their phones instead of talking to others - the deeper the divide.

It’s the authoritarianism of the phone or I call it the machine from a Kurt Vonnegut reference. The information found on a person’s device tends to develop a person’s perception or viewpoint.  A good example was out of the blue libraries seemed to be overrun by crossdressers trying to read books to kids or who should use what bathroom or genetics to play sports.  I’m just not sure how much of this goes on in the USA.

It does push people's buttons and is likely to be found through different generations.  How someone defines their sexual identity should not matter to anyone else.  Back in the days before the machine, there were motion pictures.

Motion pictures defined masculinity and femininity for a large part of the twentieth century. The events of the 1970s shook up a lot of sexual norms such as the Feminist Movement or the Stonewall Riots.  The Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Bogie types gave way for aghast-driven actors like Dustin Hoffman or Al Pacino types.  You still had holdovers of that old-time masculinity with James Bond or Charles Bronson or the perennial Clint Eastwood.

Even femininity became masculine with the loss of the Myrna Loy, Jean Arthur, Katharine Hepburn types, who were strong women characters in film and still feminine.  A few of the females of the 1930s and 1940s like Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck made the transition of 1960s and 1970s.  The rise of “Cagney & Lacy”, “Police Woman” with tough lady Angie Dickinson, Pam Grier’s “Foxy Brown” or “Get Christy Love”.  

Culture changes over time and sometimes with great resistance can be overcome when people begin to accept these changes through the experiencing of others.   In a way the definitions people place on others is the theme in my first issue of “Ayahuasca, Wisconsin” titled “American as Football”.