Quote Originally Posted by karezza View Post
Excellent post, battybattybats (great name). Everyone should be free to express themselves as they wish. Most of us just want to express our feminine sides, but it is assumed that by dressing like women we are cruising. That is just ignorance and what women have put up with forever. In my opinion, the problem is not naivety about our signals, but naivety about how they are being interpreted. Unfortunately, a large percentage of men are idiots who view women as sex objects and CDs as fags. Some are very dangerous. And beyond that, most people in general don't have the least understanding of crossdressing and why we do it. My advice is be alert, be safe, and don't expect to be understood. Express yourself freely with those who are open to you and don't waste your time with fools who don't get it.
Thanks.
Though I don't agree about most men being idiots, rather they are deeply indoctrinated. Taught to be that way, punished with violence both emotional psychological and physical untill they are that way.

It's the truth most (not all) feminists ignore and much of society ignores. The worst aspects of male society are created, a self perpetuating system of brutalisation with each generation truamatising the next in the same way they once were.

Homophobia, sexism and racism are essential components of this and as we have seen the eroding and unraveling if these we have seen the eroding and unraveling of traditional male culture but it's still pervasive. Each genertion still has to run a gauntlet of indoctrination and abuse with those who are caring, compassionate or who can be labelled in any way as gay or girly with that being flung against them.

Boys suffer emotional abuse, are taught to repress their feellings with the exception of anger and aggression.

It's not as bad as it was but it's still there. Boys are taught to treat women that way, to think of women that way. We must undo that teaching in a constructive and positive way. We need a revolution in the male world of western society even greater than the one that feminism created in the female one. One that will undo the very glorification of the modes of thinking that support homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism and a great many of the worlds ills by striking at the source rather than the symptoms.

Men need to be freed from male stereotypes and we need to decry male stereotypes with as much or more than was done when women decried female stereotypes.