Has the term "Closeted" Crossdresser changed since the Internet came along???????
I was reading a thread with a nice CD in a yellow dress with hands on hips posing for the camera is such a way to not see her face clearly on in her avatar pic, and I was thinking ..... Since the Internet came along has the term "Closeted" changed.
I mean think about it , to be closeted you must not tell anyone , and in our case you could not show OR tell any one your cd. I read stories for CDs that say there in the closet and I see there pics. Does it mean there no long In the closet and just in the closet door but, partly out of it.
Silly I know I am just splitting hairs here but it was funny to me. Before the Internet to be in the closet you meant you did not tell anyone , did not show anyone , did not tell your story to anyone , e.t.c.
So has the term changed , or does it matter. You girls whom are "in the closet door" and consider yourself not "IN" the closet , but In the "house".
You closeted CDs have come out all of us and I would say your not 100% in the closet but lets say......75% in. I take courage and bravery to tell people . It also is the same to tell people on the computer too. Never forget your first time telling someone and how brave you were too.
What would you say would be (just for fun) a better term for a "closeted" person? Ideas?????
A Whisper from behind the door
It seems to me both from my readings on science, language, and the human mind - as well as from observation - that people are 'hard-wired' to organize, classify, and label things including human behavior and human beings themselves. As long as we recognize that this is an inherent behavior and in and of itself harmless, okay - what I strongly object to and what I would argue is wrong is when people start using these labels to differentiate between people and to express judgments as to what is wrong and what is right. I think it better to accept that it just is (or that, these things just are).
What I like about this forum is its general sense of acceptance accompanied by a good dose of advise, help, assistance, and support. Though still very much in the closet, without the internet and the discovery of this forum I would probably still be very deep in the dark even from myself. As I type this today, I am wearing panties with green flowers and have shaved my legs and much other hair and will be trying to maintain that. Having seen what others in this community have done, I can even see Ellen going out in public.
I am still working through the full implications of my new recognitions of myself as a bisexual who likes to express his/her masculine and feminine sides in dress and behavior. This all beginning from an exploration starting only this year and greatly supported and aided by the the internet that made this (and other such) forums possible. So, yes I'm in the closet but peeking out the door a little bit. Without the internet I might not still be completely in the dark.
I'm "in the closet", but, "out of the closet!?
You're RITE, Christine!
I say the day I came "out of the closet", was 2 years ago! When I stopped dressing in a vacuum, and came out here!:)
Yet, in all my posts, I refer to myself as a, "closet dresser" because I only dress at home! And no one knows I do it:brolleyes:
There needs to be a commonly accepted term for those of us that r out online, but NOT to the folks we know, or in public!
Like; "Outline closet CD"? :devil: