BLog.Wired.com – By Chris Kohler
Captain Rainbow keeps getting weirder and weirder.
As you might recall from the instruction manual of Super Mario Bros. 2, the mini-boss character Birdo is, in certain versions of the Marioverse, a transvestite: He’s a pink boy dinosaur who wears a pretty ribbon because he thinks he’s a girl, and spits eggs from his mouth because…
…because…
…he doesn’t have a vagina? Where does he get the eggs? This is all kind of sounding very Buffalo Bill, the more I think about it. Birdo has been celebrated by transsexuals, including game designer Jennifer Reitz.