"As Girls Go" (Re: Gay/straight issue?)

[jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka)]

Richard Caley writes:

>Obl. music&sexuality:	I like the song on 99.9F about the cross
>	dresser (or maybe transexual, I hav't worked it out). The
>	title escapes me, `As Girls Go'?.

That's one of my favorite tracks on that album of superb songs.  I, too,
have not decided whether it's about transvestism or transexuality.  It
seems that the only line that _really_ implies transexuality is "Did you
ever keep the date / with the steel side of the knife?"  The rest of
the song, though, seems to indicate crossdressing.

In another post, you make some reference to the narrator being confused or
nervous, and I really don't have the slightest idea where you get that
impression.  To me, she's bemused, in a pleasant, teasing sort of way.
"So beautiful - a damsel in distress / not exactly natural, but stunning
none the less."  Seems wonderfully tongue in cheek to me.

As a vaguely related side reference, note that SV's manager (and Shawn
Colvin's, for that matter) is Ronald Fierstein, brother of Harvey Fierstein,
the noted gay playwrite/actor/drag queen.

Jeff
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