The Pirate King has an enormous... pirate flag!

I wish I were a guy.

Not that I don't like being a girl, because I do. But.

I was about to say there's a lot of stuff I want to do that I can't because I'm not a guy, but actually that's dishonest. Most of it's acting. There's a long list of parts that I desperately want to play that I doubt anyone's ever going to let me. I can deal with not being able to do whatever role because I haven't got the training or some other thing-- for example, okay, I can't play the Phantom because I can't quite hit all of the notes-- but that's something I can at least work on. What says I can't play Richard III? Just my bits. That right there, that is unfair.

And yes, I can say that this is what my theatre company will be for. But honestly? I'd always know I was doing this particular play because I want to play this particular part, and that's a different kind of unfair. Hamlet is one thing. That's for ideas that I need to work out and that I need to show people, and because I know I can do it, and quite frankly I still have trouble sometimes telling myself that I'm not just being egotistical. But I can't do that all the time because that isn't what theatre is for.

Anyway, the point is that I want to be able to strut around on the stage and act like a madman and totally ham it up and, I don't know, wear my shirt open and be shocking when I cross-dress. And it isn't fair that I have to force the universe to let me.