I've been listening to the radio and a female presenter thinks it's hilarious that a male presenter is being made to wear a dress. The implication is that he will find it humiliating.
If society still considers it humiliating for a man to wear a dress are we ever going to be accepted?
Katie
I fail to understand how wearing a dress is humiliating. If that's the case, it's no wonder most women opt to wear pants.
Second star to the right and straight on till morning
It takes a real man to wear a dress.
I guess really it depends on the dress, doesn't it?
"Put some lipstick on - Perfume your neck and slip your high heels on
Rinse and curl your hair - Loosen your hips, and get a dress to wear" Stefani Germanotta
When I was going through basic training I got in trouble for an inspection one day and had to wear the golden "dumbass" bucket helmet which was just that a bucket with a helmet band to fit your head, painted gold with eyeholes so you could see. I had to mark time everywhere I went and stand at attention when not moving . . . oh and everyone got to call me "Private Dumbass" for the day. Now that was humiliating . . . a dress . . . that's nothing.
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Isha
Being forced to wear a dress would be humiliating if you're not a crossdresser. Wearing a dress without presenting as female would be humiliating as well unless you just want to call attention to yourself.
[SIGPIC]http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=82706&dateline=137762 0356[/SIGPIC]Linda
Or just want to wear a dress and don't give a Flying F what other people think.Originally Posted by linda allen
eventually . Society is just lame think of people like robots being told what to do. go get some of the most macho celebs to wear a dress something not to girly or it wont work and get all the female celebs and other females to go crazy over them nd broadcast that to the world and watch how fast the new trend catches on.
it once was too gay for a man to wear pink but now its fashion.
once men didnt care much about hairstyles etc but now its different
Yes. Acceptance changes over time. Imagine the best player in the NBA in the 1950's showing up for a game with a gigantic diamond earring.
I have a pink shirt. When I wear it, I invariably get compliments from girls. When I wear a dress, I get similar compliments from girls!
Lynn Marie
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The Holy Grail, if you will for CD's... is when doing things feminine is viewed in high regard by both men and women. A girl going out for boy's baseball in school is highly supported, a boy trying out for cheer is frowned upon.
Also how boring would that radio program be if she complimented him and was nice? There is a chance he wasn't even in a dress.
Lynn Marie, I always wear pink shirts and today my secretary commented on how much she loves the fact that I wear pink shirt. I have pink oxfords and pink polos, and could not foresee wearing anything else other than my blue oxfords.
It's hard to be humiliated if you aren't easily intimidated by other people. I'd imagine that those trying to exercise humiliation at the expense of someone else is a person easily intimidated themselves.
I would find it more humiliating being forced to wear pajamas to the mall.... oh, my bad, that happens to be the style out here... yea right. I must say that when I do observe purposely bad style, I tend to stare then turn and shake my head.... Those with great style, really making an effort in how they look and act, I'll give them a look and a nod with a gentle 'nice' as I walk by...
A guy in a dress trying to look like a guy in a dress, well that depends on where I am. At a goth punk rock concert, I think nothing of it... at walmart, well that's another issue. There's a time an place to dress and dress well. It's all about the location and the event...
Renne.....
A high school near me annually has a cross dress day. I see the students walk by. The girls just wear their regular jeans, and a hockey jersey. The guys all opt for an ill- fitting dress. They walk by my house laughing and carrying on as usual, with their hairy legs, and sock boobs. I don't sense any humiliation, just good clean fun.
My high school had a crossdressers day. It was brought on by one teacher I wonder if he was(or is) a crossdresser. I was to scared to dress up then. But he was the only mail teacher that dressed up that day.
There's a good quote that's famously misattributed to Iggy Pop: "I'm not ashamed to dress like a woman because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman."
(The quote usually accompanies a picture of him in a dark green dress, that was originally taken by Swedish photographer Mikael Jansson. And he totally rocks it...with matching handbag, even!)
- Amy
Amy Gale Ruth Bowersox (nee Tapie) - "Be who you are, and be it in style!"
Member, Board of Trustees, Gender Identity Center of Colorado
aka Amelia Storm - Ms. Majestic Hearts of All Colorado 2018-2019, Miss Majestic Hearts of All Colorado 2015-2016
Here it is
People try to put us down
Just because we get around
One persons opinion doesn't reflect everyone
For the Alpha male type wearing a dress might be very well humiliating to him. Quit worrying about what someone else thinks. If you enjoying wearing dresses, then wear dresses. If you are only comfortable wearing bib overalls, a hard hat, and dirt from the oil fields, then wear that. The main thing is just be yourself, everything else will take care of itself.
I am afraid there is a large part of society that will never accept CDers.
Stephanie
I think you are taking this out of context. If a non-cross dresser was made to wear a dress as a result of some bet, it would be humiliating to that man. This person is not presenting as female and has no desire to. It's no different than if a woman was made to wear men's tight-whities in public. It covers like a bikini but it is unnatural to her.
Growing up the neighborhood girls played a game "catch the boy and put a dress on him" for some strange reason I got caught way way more often than anyone else.... that was 5 decades ago.... and nothings changed.....
I'm with Karen, 5 decades ago a bunch or boys in my class, myself included, got in trouble for something. We were all made to wear a dress for the afternoon. Wasn't humiliating when all your classmates were also wearing dresses. I might add that none of us went home and complained as that would have then resulted in further punishment from our parents for getting it trouble in the first place.
I don't think we will see mass acceptance anytime soon. Having said that, I sure won't live my life for other people and wait for their acceptance - I will live it for me. So this means putting my sexiest dress on, kicking my heels up and dancing the charleston. Humiliation doesn't come into it.
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