BY: LINN MARCUSSON 

Illustration: Karin RobertsIt’s been a while since I understood BARBIE’s just a plastic surgery, ideal woman who doesn’t even have a cunt. From then, I’ve really tried hard to make up my mind about the matter. Theoretic MASTURBATION and social analysis. But even though I’m improving, I’m still a brainwashed, fascist product of society. And there, somewhere in between, we are.

Trying to be political correct, but still (the norm of) beauty is killing us. The naked body is as culturally rooted as the dressed one. A living MICHAEL JACKSON is a FREAK, but a dead one a HERO. This is a world were you can’t bleach more than your anus if you don’t wanna be harassed for life. It’s 2009, and white, male, heterosexuals are still the template. If you can’t fit into the category, you’re sorted into the rest of the constructed categories based on if you’re having a cock or a cunt, what color of SKIN you have and who you’re changing body fluids with. Each category with its own rules to follow if you wanna appear NORMAL. It’s still a Barbie world, nothing is real. We just rather not talk about it. 

Michael couldn’t pass as a (HU)MAN. Whatever he wanted or not wanted, he fucked with the given identities, from black man to white woman? While I was born straight into the privileges of a caucasian, he was busy fixing his nose to look a little bit less like a black man. Call it unnatural or insane. The mainstream judgement is uncompromising and hard core – some alterations just can’t pass. And that’s why you’ll be reduced from a (hu)man to a freak. Still, Michael was subversive. He transcended the norms we’ve made into natural truths. But what’s TRUE? Often the truth is the least threatening alternative. What doesn’t move the balance of power. The “natural” is SAFE.

Some kind of hypocrite bullshit we refer to so we can remain as the post-colonial bleached ASSHOLES we are forever.