"The disruption of social norms is not always subversive, especially in postmodernist commodity cultures where formal fluidity, fragmentation, and marketing through difference are central elements. Indeed, privileged groups can, on occasion, display their privilege precisely by the extravagant display of their right to ambiguity. When the English football star, Paul Gascoigne, returned triumphant from the World Cup, he paraded the streets in plastic women’s breasts, as if his excess of heterosexual prowess on the football field licensed his privileged display of gender ambiguity."

Anne McClintock - Imperial Leather