“I’m fascinated by boys who spend their lives trying to be complete girls, because they have to work so hard-double time getting rid of all the tell-tale male signs and drawing in all the female signs. I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do, I’m not saying it’s a good idea, I’m not saying it’s self defeating and self-destructive, and I’m not saying it’s not possibly the single most absurd thing a man can do with his life. What I’m saying, it is very hard work. You can’t take that away from them. It’s hard work to look like the complete opposite of what nature made you and then to be an imitation woman of what was only a fantasy woman in the first place. When they took the movie stars and stuck them in the kitchen, then they weren’t stars any more-they were just like you and me.”
Andy Warhol, “Fame”, 1975.
