Intersexuality

Back in 2008, Lady Gaga, made her debut onto the music scene. She was immediately noticed not so much for musical ability but rather her eccentric style and look. Since she was a complete newcomer and had no previous exposure in the limelight as Lady Gaga no one knew much about her. I bring up Gaga because she was the subject of harassment because there were paparazzi pictures posted online of her wearing a leotard bodysuit where she had a bit of a “camel toe” and those pictures blew up and everyone started rumors about her being a “hermaphrodite.” Now back then I won’t lie, I was a ignorant teenager and although I did like Gaga, I had no idea what being intersex entailed and it was also the first time I ever heard of that. So I went along with those rumors and just believed them for a while until Gaga denied those rumors. I bring all of this up because it just comes to show how the people are naturally ignorant, but sometimes they just refused to gain new knowledge. Also I believe that those intersex rumors are her were so persistent and harsh because people thought she was a freak of nature to begin with so that intersex title just further proved their point. In Anne Fausto-Sterling’s The Five Sexes, Revisited that there are actual real people who deal with this and it shows how much pain and suffering they have to go through because of choices that were made for them by someone else as a child. Also, I would bet a pretty penny that theres a pretty substantial amount of people who think intersex people aren’t real and some who have never heard about intersexuality. It shows that we as a human population need to learn more and more about each other.