RB, Cixous*

Ms. Pelosi, tear down this wall – the one that has risen higher since the one in Berlin went down and has split our nation into color-coded binary opposition. Red/Blue. The House of Representatives is attempting to get in touch with the feminine component of its bisexuality. Constituents are tired of a federal government “reduced to a single idol with clay balls” (Cixous 159), tired of this government that, in Freudian terms, “still has something to lose” (161).

“A man is always proving something” (161).

Proving marriage should be between a man and a woman, proving his opponents either are terrorists or inadvertently support terrorism, proving nobody’s going to burn his flag and get away with it. Proving he's man.

If the proof isn’t there, he will continue proving despite blatant facts to the contrary: the war to find WMDs has become the war to spread democracy. He will now prove that his way is better to a region increasingly embracing sharia, even if that means civil war. Or maybe especially if that means civil war. He thrives on binary opposition.

This is the work of phallocentrism. Unilateral action, torture interrogation techniques, guilty-until-proven-innocent detention, tens of thousands of civilian causalities.

“A man is always proving something” (161).

However, “accepting the other sex as a component makes them much richer, more various, stronger, and – to the extent that they are mobile – very fragile” (158). It’s time to embrace the inherent bisexuality because “it is only in this condition that we invent” (158).

* Feminist writing “will always exceed the discourse governing the phallocentric system” (Cixous 162).