You know that look from others, the one that feels as if it's burrowing to the core of your very being. It's often accompanied by that facial tweak which looks as if the person smells something very unpleasant. The wearer of the "stink-eye" often looks as if they are in a trance, like the subject matter of what brought on their stink puts them in a sort of catatonic state.
Well you might think I'm gonna talk about getting that kind of look when out & about presenting as female. Surprisingly, not the case. It has nothing to do with whether I am perceived as TG or not (and for the record, I fully expect others to eventually come to that TG conclusion). Rather, I'm talking about the looks I get in guy mode when my hair is down. The phrases which enter my mind (that I imagine they are thinking) when I receive this stink-eye look are...
- Guys are not supposed to have hair that pretty.
- C'mon, you are clearly a middle-aged male, WTF???
- This does not compute, (due to immediate visual cues) I see woman but that is clearly a dude.
Yep, it seems these days that when presenting as female, I am at least in line with society's gender binary. However, when in guy mode, my signals are decidedly mixed and apparently it messes with people more than it does when I present as a woman. Go figure.
Every time I get this look I have it in mind to start a thread here to get this off my chest. Given that this has happened at least three times in the last week, I think it's high time that I do so.
That feels better.
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