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www.youtube.com/watch ... Embrace the Martian by Kid Cudi

For this week I chose the song "Embrace the Martian" by Kid Cudi because I think it encompasses the punchline for Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw- accepting differences. In the song he likens himself to a martian, an out of this world creature unlike the implied humans in this song. While reading Gender Outlaw this is the image I got from Bornstein- a creature not female not male, at the same time "you are me// like it or not I am you//". The rest of the song speaks for itself, as does the book. In addition, I think that this conversation boils down to the origins of any conversation about gender and sexuality...equality and tolerance. Enjoy!!!!

Ixnay on the bullshit man
When I roll back to Cleveland
I can't believe them
Sounds of the nonbelievers, outcasts
Till I'm under before it did hurt
Now I can overstand how you could just miss the front on
Ask me how I feel about the ones with closed eyes
Mouth words how I feel exactly
Aw fuck that
I don't give a damn I met one hater
Talkin' down
Don't be afraid at all y'all
All I ask of y'all is to please

Embrace the martian
Embrace the martian
I come in peace
But I need y'all rockin' with me
Please
Embrace the martian
And this is how it sounds

See I must tell you all now
Keep on acting funny
Cool with me
I am here to trace that
How ya thinkin' often and its startin'
I am here to show you how it feels to be new
Look at what I made true god to teach you
Honest been insecure cool
And you are cool
But I'm havin' heavy amounts of
Malarkey mixed with garbage
I am it dog
Don't be afraid of all y'all
All I ask about y'all is to please

Embrace the martian
Embrace the martian
I come in peace
But I need y'all rockin' with me
Please
Embrace the martian
And this is how it sounds

Embrace the martian
Embrace the martian
I come in peace
But I need y'all rockin' with me
Please
Embrace the martian

Licensed to ill
I promise I won't turn the whole world to Cloverfield
On the real, yeah I will
I'll destroy it and then rebuild
Just for thrills
Sometimes you got to do it
Sometimes you show the tough love
No one is above what you are hearin' now dude
No matter who else included

I'm saluted
I'm saluted
No matter who else included
I'm saluted (Yeah, Yeah)
I'm saluted

Oh
Whether you appeal
Or not
This is the real
We'll recognize real
You
You are me
Like it or not
And I
I am you
You
You
You

Embrace the martian
Embrace the martian
I come in peace
But I need y'all rockin' with me
Please
Embrace the martian
And this is how it sounds

Embrace the martian
Embrace the martian
I come in peace
But I need y'all rockin' with me
Please
Embrace the martian
And this is how it sounds

Oooo
Oooo
And this is how it sounds
In my mind
Ooooo