Log in

View Full Version : TS Reality Episode 3 – The Passing Problem of Phemme Phrenology



LeaP
06-13-2014, 11:37 AM
Mug, grim visage, face like a junkyard dog, lots of character, a face to sink a thousand ships, fell out of the ugly tree and hit a few branches on the way down, rugged good looks. Noggin, knot head, jarhead, jughead. A small sampling of the lovely words that used to describe the male head.

The last thing a MTF TS wants is to be described in these terms. What’s a (T)Girl to do?

What a great question!

THANK GOD we have the modern science of Phemme Phrenology to help us out! A wonderful mash-up of the firm foundations of classical phrenology, craniometry, physiognomy, and various things Dr. Ousterhout really, REALLY likes in a girl, it just keeps getting better with wonderful advances like Dr. Spiegel’s technique of crushing and re-assembling the skull! New techniques of reducing brow bossing that only start slightly, if alarmingly close in appearance to a transorbital lobotomy! Implants you didn’t even know existed! And you’re going to break WHAT???? Don’t worry, though, because the incredibly skilled hands of that trained cranio-facial or plastic surgeon (you did check, right? right??) are going to probe and feel the lumps and bumps, then pronounce which ones are male and outta go, to be replaced by more feminine lumps and bumps. After all, this is Science! What’s that? Yes, I know women come in infinite variations, but *I* need to pass!

Yes, a New You is in the offing, even if the New You will look suspiciously like every other O Girl or Z Girl. There may be a few downsides, but beauty doesn’t come easily. One of which is that beauty may come in the form of looking like your homely, middle-aged sister.

The healing is going to take a while, it hurts, and it’s going to be expensive. (Sounds familiar) How expensive? “HOLY F’IN CRAP!!!!!” Thank God for insura … And suddenly Mexican and Thai surgeons look every last bit as good as any local alternatives! Some of them are, too. “All right,” you think, “$15k is better than “$40k”. “I don’t need nurses that speak English, recovering in a hotel sounds cool, and I’m pretty sure I can follow-up with my own doctor!” So “Phuket, ” you say and off you go! Get the lipo you want at the same time! What's another hour or two under anesthesia if you're already out anyway?

Consider Rocky’s face after he won the fight with Apollo Creed. If you look like that the day after surgery, you did good!!! I love reading the post-FFS threads, which are titled “Ouch” more often than not, T-Girls being the subtle, understated things they are. By and large, the results are good, though, and get better over time. Wonderful. Sure would like to be able to feel the top of my head, though! No, I didn’t have open brain surgery, and that little ‘ol scar will just disappear under my wig! And no, Michael Jackson plastic surgery jokes aren’t funny (anymore).

If there’s one thing on which there’s consensus, it’s that a girl’s gotta look like a girl. That some feel this includes you looking just as you do now shouldn’t trouble you at all, even if you do, in fact, look like Sylvester Stallone. Taken to its logical extreme, that means nothing REALLY needs to change at all. After all, some women dress in men’s clothing, look like men, talk and walk like men, are bald, etc. So the only thing you REALLY need is to think you are a woman! What’s that? You can’t pin that down? Take heart – you just validated that gender surgery is cosmetic and, if there is a truism in life, it’s that women like cosmetics, so go for the surgery!!

What? You’re disappointed in my use of a sexist cliché? As the Man in Black said: “Get used to disappointment.” You’re a woman now.

Still want to transition in a heartbeat?

KellyJameson
06-13-2014, 01:36 PM
I really enjoy when you write in satire.

I hope Episode 4 is on "The Voice" There is even surgery to change that.

This is better than Harry Potter and the Hunger Games combined.

There are elements of magic,violence and politics in all that you have written.

Nicole Erin
06-13-2014, 02:29 PM
Surgeries are not magic.
Plus once someone is middle age or beyond, it is not like people are going to notice anyways. Middle age women are invisible.

The problem with middle age TS getting surgeries and torturing themselves with so many expensive procedures is - it ends up reaping few benefits. Look at some of the middle-age TS here who seem even more bitter after surgeries. They probably had the thought somewhere in the back of their minds that they were going to be adored and have the same quality of life as some 21 year old model.

Yeah we see the young ones like Miss Canada or Kim Petras and idealize what it is like to pass and be loved by all. The media doesn't show the older ones like us who just look like weathered old bats.

Too many TS our age fail to really examine reality. Even worse, they forget to have a life outside of being TS.

arbon
06-13-2014, 03:16 PM
Nicole - who is like that here (more bitter after)?

I've met some women who are still not entirely passable after ffs but are still a lot closer to being passable and better looking at least, and I've met some others who I would never think were trans if I did not already know (recently badtranny for example). I would say there are big benefits from FFS for many.

Many of us wont have FFS (I doubt I will ever afford it) and can still make a good life, but I certainly would not say there is little benefit to FFS for most middle age trans women.

Kathryn Martin
06-13-2014, 03:52 PM
Who gets to decide what is a female face? Now what about the women who don't have a "female" face how do they pass? This is the big question that baffles me. How do you pass as a woman, any kind of woman. The problem is of course that we live in a world in which we believe women have to be of a certain kind of beautiful. And as we know plenty of women get lifts, nips, tucks, to conform to a beauty standard that we all keep policing. So who gets to decide a face is female?

Wildaboutheels
06-13-2014, 04:04 PM
"If there’s one thing on which there’s consensus, it’s that a girl’s gotta look like a girl."

Nope. Unless you think that most that water here are liars.

arbon
06-13-2014, 04:07 PM
Wildaboutheels - I am pretty sure most ts women would agree with the statement.

Aprilrain
06-14-2014, 05:56 AM
FFS (and changing my voice) was my transition. Before I looked like a male and got sired a lot more often, after I've only been sired once. It was while I was out with a group of TSes, guilty by association!

FFS isn't about winning beauty pageants, it's not about some doctors vision of what female beauty should be, if your doctor is any good he or she will simply eliminate the masculinization of the face which took place during puberty due to testosterone poisoning. You still look like you afterward just a female version of you. FFS isn't about trying to look younger or prettier which is the goal of other facial cosmetic procedures. FFS is about giving yourself the best quality of life possible by eliminating masculine facial features.