Perhaps because we are a hapless bunch, insecure of our own sexual and/or gender identities? Perhaps because we aren't amongst the most comfortable when it comes to the topic of sex, nor amongst the most educated? In fact, we're so ignorant that we've piled up everything we can't define about gender and sexuality into one word: baklâ.
Hapless, indeed, to have only one word (a bad word, not to mention) for everything else we are unwilling to introduce to decent society.
Maybe, just maybe, people place a high premium on masculinity that's why other people felt the need to bastardize it and those who promotes it.
ReplyDeleteIn short, like you said, insecurity.