I'm not knocking anyone. I'm allowed to state my opinions on this forum just as you are.
I hate to say it but it does seem like you are. You made a statement that "passing is everything" and in the same point stated that you don't leave your apartment/home CDed. That is basically saying that you discourage CDing unless you are 100% passable or close to it. This is a support forum for crossdressers and I don't think that this type of discouragement is supportive in any way. Additionally, you also implied that merely having the HR department of a company confront a person who is gossipping about another employee will lead to a good chance of the employee being shot, stabbed, or hit over the head with a tire iron. I'm sorry but you do need to do a reality check here. If you want to stay inside of your home and live in fear then that is up to you but your statements here are not statistically realistic in even the most remote ways and you are cleary discouraging open and free crossdressing in a support forum for people who choose to do so. If everyone used your logic here, nobody would be leaving their house CDed so again you are being anti-supportive here in my opinion.

I also have enough personal experience with dealing with actual threats and actual dangerous people to make a logical assessment on what I'm dealing with when I go out in public (in drab or not). Believe it or not, the more exposure you have to the real world and the more real problems you do encounter, the less scary everything appears to be because now you have the first-hand knowledge and intelligence to sort out the real threats from the possible ones. Until you get real exposure first-hand and not just imagined in your mind or from what you hear on TV, you will never really get to experience real life. I'm going out dressed tonight BTW and I will certainly use caution. I'm not hiding behind my front door scared because of some imagined tranny-basher who probably isn't even there. As someone said one time to me, "Either you are in control of your life or someone or something else is." I refuse to let my own fears or others control my life. Britney