Do you think it is easier to be accepted (and encouraged) by your SO if you look passable enough?
I do not know if this question has been asked before but I am interested in your answers. Personally, I think that might be somewhat true. I have the impression that if some hypothetical crossdresser can look pretty good dressed as a woman, the effort is evident and might be taken as something positive. Also, the image of a man making a ridicule representation of a woman and all the possible "offence" behind it, does not exist when that person actually looks and behaves like a "regular" woman. And also I think that the idea that the hypothetical crossdresser is simply some kind of pervert would not make much sense. I do not know how to interpret this, but in my personal experience with female friends, when I ask them about if they would be interested in someone like me, some of them have answered that if I look as good as in some pictures that I have shown them, then it might trigger some internal lesbian desires (even when they are hetero, or "hetero", I do not know), or they do not know why but they might consider it.
Also, and I think this might be another question, I do not know if maybe the acceptance might be related with the appearance of the hypothetical crossdresser. I think that if the crossdresser is kind of androgynous as a male, the possibility of being accepted by the SO is greater since initially she was attracted to some feminine features of him. Perhaps acceptance is harder when the crossdresser is so masculine looking in male mode and the contrast when he crossdresses is so big, in comparison with an androgynous crossdresser which does not change too much after dressing. I know that every case is different, but might it be true for a significant number of cases?, do you think there might be a pattern?
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