We all know that the internet is a wonderful place to meet people. this is especially applicable for us crips, particularly if we can’t get out much. The internet is also good for keeping in contact with offline friends during periods when you can’t physically meet up. I have a great many on- and offline friends, and I try not to differentiate between the two. I love to see how everyone’s getting on on facebook etc.

However, a few of these people have turned out to be morons who seem to like picking fights for the hell of it. They irritate me very much. Yesterday, for example, I got a message from one such person calling me a ”stupid little prick” out of the blue; I responded, saying that he should learn to think for himself, and his reply this morning was ”well, at least I don’t dress like a fucking woman”.

Reading this makes me extremely angry. My dressing is, as I’ve explained before, in part a reaction to the world; I do it in the spirit of postmodernity. Why can’t sex and gender be interchangeable if we are all equal? Why not reread the boundaries? Moreover, his statement implies there is something wrong with women ad their clothes. If such clothing is good enough for women, its good enough for men, or are women inferior? That’s what the statement implies, and that’s why it’s sexist.

I suppose I should have expected it, being so open about my transvestism. But then I think: why? Should we just ignore such intolerance and backwardness? For it is backwards – it’s the inability to accept difference; it is discrimination; it is, in short, immaturity. We could of course ignore such people as Matthew Wedlake like a parent ignores an errant child, but then, how are we ever going to teach such people that their outdated ‘views’ have no place in the modern, liberal world?