Gender-vague

Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun.

Performers who scrupulously stuck to gender-vague lyrics, refused to talk about their personal lives, and dithered about avoiding labels and identities, began to feel the pressure from their fans.

Her gender-vague nickname of "Moe" suited not only her persona then, but it also fed into the modish androgyny with which the group became associated through Warhol.