Monday, August 27, 2012

Not black and white


In a new Japanese Toyota ad, the long-haired 19-year-old Ukrainian Stav Strashko struts toward a car as the camera lovingly follows the model’s perfect, red bikini-bottomed butt. A jacket is seductively shed. And then Strashko turns around to reveal – she’s a man, baby! Yup, that bare chest is flat, but the bulge in the bikini bottom is not.

Mr. Strashko is androgynous, born with both male and female characteristics.  He has a boyfriend and lives as a male.  Many Gnostic Christians believed that "God" was androgynous and that Adam, who was made in "God's" image, was also androgynous.  Male/female identification and sexual orientation are not always cut and dry or black and white, as some would have us believe.  Food for thought.

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