WHY DON’T WE EAT IT ON THE RUN?
A CREEM Guide To Androgyny In The '80s
"Another new world-nothin' to do but throw rocks at tin cans and we have to bring our own cans."— Earl Holliman in Forbidden Planet
"Nothing can be as boring as the future!"-Joan Van Ark on Wonder Woman
"androgynous adj, 1. Having the characteristics or nature of both male and female; 2. Bearing both staminate and pistillate flowers the same cluster..." ☆ ☆ ☆
Seems like everybody's flappin' gums staminates and pistillates these days, don't it? Boy George—The Next Fish Popper? asks People. A Bed Bath From Hell With Annie Lennox! reports Newsweek. Shave Your Driveway In One E-Z Step! trumpets Better Homes & Gardens.
There hasn't been this much fuss about gender benders since controversial clay rights kingpin Gumby hung "it" up years ago. And while it's been a rock 'n' roll fad— on and off, intentionally or not— for centuries, such kissy-faced national exposure since The Hound That Thought He Was A Racoon was pulled from family theaters.