Right peeps, fact is, the world has gone gaga. We don't talk to each other anymore, because our network provider offers us unlimited texts for next to nothing, we've replaced our real friends with those we find on Facebook, our five-year old nephews are sick of the laptops they were given with 1 1/2 and request Nintendo Wiis. We live our lives in the virtual world of MySpace, Facebook and Bebo and rather than telling everyone to their face, our opinions are posted on Twitter.
When Boy George decided to dip his face into palettes of eye-shadow and adorn his eye-lids with thick layers of eyeliner, the world thought 'Bonkers - but hey, it's an act!'
25 years later and look at our fashion magazines... everyone wants boyfriend jeans, boyfriend blazers, boyfriend cardies... Curvaceous, big-boobed ladies, with long flowing hair... not cool anymore. It's all about long-legged, alien-faced, flat-chested stick insects.
What happened to Dior's New Woman of the 50s, to Marilyn Monroe and Brigit Bardot? What happened to those days when men had to help their woman out of the car because her heels were too high and that corset too tight?
Instead, she wakes up, throws on his shirt, his blazer, takes his briefcase and off she is to her high-flying job in the City, while he stays home and looks after the kids, because he's on... errrm... paternity leave.
But what else can one expect... seriously... of a man who wears skinny jeans, or even a shimmering pair of sequined leggings, a man who takes longer for his beauty regime than she does, who needs the newest GHDs to straighten that fringe and who isn't ashamed to use concealer and anti-wrinkle cream.
To be honest, how the hell is he supposed to help her out of the car or carry her shoulder-high if he bloody weighs less than she does?!
But then he is sensitive and artistic, he doesn't shy away from showing his feelings and he is proud to be in touch with his feminine side. Isn't that what every woman wants?
Truly, we shouldn't complain really. This is what our mums fought for when they were young; this is what the whole flower-power-sexual-freedom stuff was all about and seriously, don't you think those suffragettes would have loved it?!
Is the phenomenon of androgyny just another fashion trend or a result of emancipation?
All these girls wearing baggy t-shirts, baggy cardies and baggy coats... is that to hide that underneath, all femininity has gone?
And what do we think? - Well, the 21st Century is great. Filled with individualists, eccentric fashion trends and who cares that some of them are oh so wrong?! Everyone gets to wear what they damn please.
We can look past the fact that all his manhood may be squashed away in those uber-tight skinnies - because more often than not those boys are pretty stylish.
And yes, girls may wear slouchy jumpers and boyfriend jeans, because paired with some killer heels they are pretty sexy !
Really, which guy would wear metallic briefs over leggings on the street, as Jethro Cave does in the current issue of INDIE magazine? Remember, fashion is art; art is nuts, art is beautiful and art is often not reality.
So, as long as there's the odd George Clooney and Scarlett Johansson left and having to take second looks to establish whether someone is, in fact, boy or girl remains an exception, we're all happy bunnies.
Right, darlings, enjoy the fading barrier between the two sexes, go crazy, share your wardrobes! You think you're the epitome of androgyny... we wanna see! Show us!
See you all next week!
Ta-Ta!
LD xoxo
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