Old School Thinking

[deebra]

I think I look pretty good wearing heels, girl jeans, soft clingy top with breast forms; much more so than in guy clothes. I'm really turned on to that feminine hour glass shape and the clothes that enhance it. If women are accepted for having breast implants to enhance small breasts is that any different than me wearing forms, they are both the same, artificial; and I could go on and on about hair, make up, etc. So if I like looking feminine and a brunet wants to look blond, what's really the difference. The difference is she is accepted, I am not. WHY

Yea I know women have boobs and men don't but if I had started female hormones at age 12 I would have a better looking female body than her, I think society can't see this, they are stuck in "old school thinking.

Am I right, will this change?

[Kate Simmons]

Hard to say my friend. I don't sit around worrying about it. I go out, have fun dancing and socializing and enjoy it. If other folks don't like it. oh well.

[Krisi]

Expecting men to look and act like men and not dress up as females with breast forms, hip padding and a wig is "old school"?

I don't think so. Will this change? Again, I don't think so.

Society has expected men to look like men and women to look like women since the beginning of human history. Some people may accept that you are "different" but most will not. It's not going to change anytime soon. In some parts of the world you can be stoned to death for crossdressing. In the USA you're lucky if you don't get laughed at.

[Sarah-RT]

Some women will say there is more to being a woman than "boobs" "heels" etc etc but with regard to a fashion sense there technically should be no reason we shouldn't want to wear fake tan, trim your eye brows, have nice hair etc etc, it is all cosmetic and "fake" in all reality.

[ShriekCassandra]

It's just socially conditioned patriarchal established sexist bullshit. In most cultures men are considered the dominant and ruling gender 'class' who have all the power and dealings with all the major functionings and ideas of society while women as a whole are regarded as lesser, inferior beings with no real social importance beyond looking attractive for potential breeding mates, helping to continue the existence of the species by fertilizing a male's sperm, and rearing the offspring. it's considered taboo and unnatural that a man would 'lower' himself to the status of a woman by having an interest in stereotypically 'feminine' things, being the romantic / sexual partner of another man, or worst of all actually wanting to become one himself.

[Ezekiel]

Yea I know women have boobs and men don't but if I had started female hormones at age 12 I would have a better looking female body than her, I think society can't see this, they are stuck in "old school thinking.

Am I right, will this change?

Yes, they are stuck in their idiocy. And yes, you are right. And yes, this will change, this is starting to change. This idiocy will fade in the future, and people will no longer have to deal with all this stupid sexism.

It's just socially conditioned patriarchal established sexist bullshit.

Cassandra's post is TRUTH. I applaud it.

[docrobbysherry]

Many people, mostly men, r afraid we r trying to fool them. When they can easily tell we r "men in dresses", they may chuckle or just think, "WTF?"

I am one of those that can't pass when viewed from the front or when they hear me speak.

I believe when they find one us that passes, attractive, (which may be me seen from the back), some men will be angry or upset that they were fooled. Probably with themselves but they may take it out on us!

Remember, men r simple creatures. And, r interested in the basics; food, drink, sleep, sex, and hangin' with their budds. If that's what u call, "old school", so be it!

[Sara Jessica]

The differences between the genders is sexism? Who knew???

[Angela Marie]

It will change but it's going to take a long time. In the interim all we can do is be ourselves and as long as we are not harming anyone not let societal norms determine our happiness.