Originally Posted by
BarbaraTalbot
Ok this is why I am uncomfortable with threads like this constantly getting the most views and just enough posts to stay alive on the first page.
This is a forum first to address our needs as crossdressers and other transgendered persons to sort out who we are and why we like to dress, as it relates to gender and societal pressures.
I am by no means suggesting that those with same sex attraction be forced into a closet, but this just isn't supposed to be the focus of the forum. It feeds the stereotype that putting on a dress is 'gay'. This is why I stayed in the closet even to myself for 38 years. It felt unseemly to dress.
I am active on other boards such as one dealing with a particular import car. There are people of all walks of life there including those who are gay, bi-sexual or even ~gasp~ straight. If it happened to come up because for example someone mentioned a partner and in context one can infer that the person is gay, it wouldn't dominate the main forum.
I've never seen a thread "I was redlining my car in 4th gear and had to downshift when I saw a cute guy...good thing my seats recline..." etc etc.
Can we please have a discreet area for those who actually feel that what they wear "makes them gay" for them to sort through their feelings away from the worried eyes of brand new members who may be the worried wife or parent of a crossdresser whose first question invariably is, does dressing make him gay?
I say again, if anyone has to put on a dress in order to be comfortable with expressing their sexuality, there is more going on than gender confusion.