ok so i'm listening to the who (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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live at leeds specifically

now i do not mean to imply that any members of the who are or were secretly transmasc. HOWEVER

Me and my brother were talking to each other
'Bout what makes a man a man
Was it brain or brawn, or the month you were born
We just couldn't understand

One girl was called Jean-Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally-Joy
The other was me, and I'm a boy

My name is Bill and I'm a headcase
They practice making-up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend evenings taking hairpins from my hair

I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am I get it

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

"I'm a Boy" is a 1966 rock song written by Pete Townshend for the Who.[3] The song was originally intended to be a part of a rock opera called Quads, which was to be set in a future in which parents can choose the sex of their children.

The song is about a family who "order" four girls, but a mistake is made and three girls and one boy are delivered instead. The boy dreams of partaking in sports and other boy-type activities, but his mother forces him to act like his sisters and refuses to believe the truth

That's hard to read as anything but a metaphor for being transmasc

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

right???

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

that's not even a metaphor. that's literally just the text

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Cis people seem so oblivious

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah Pete is an absolute classic rock treasure. Basically everything he wrote about had some sort of metaphor for a larger cause, even if it wasn't always apparent.

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