How many of you are straight but flirt with men anyway?

[ReineD]

it is nice that the guys talk to you as a woman, I get a thrill out of that.

I'm straight, but I have to agree that the thought of men from a woman's perspective definitely comes into play for me. Most of the time this manifests as mental imagery of faceless men and the thought of me doing "naughty" things to them, seeing as how I feel

They compliment my looks, and some of my other features (smart, funny) and it makes me feel so feminine.

This has come up before, so if you'll bear with me, there's something I'd like to ask and not being TG it's more complicated for me, so I need to use a lot of words. lol

First, I do understand that when you are dressed, a guy's attention makes you feel more feminine because his masculinity puts your feminity in even greater contrast and it heightens it, compared to when you are with a woman who has an innate femininity. This part is easy to understand.

But this is what I don't get: regardless of whether you (and others) are attracted to men or not (since this isn't the point of my question), I gather a big part of the thrill is, you feel the admirers are treating you like women. But from everything I've read from people who have active profiles on those sites, the admirers are after TGs for the very thing that TGs are masking when they dress, namely, their male bits. Guys who are after TGs (for the most part) are not interested in post-ops. Or GGs. (Not the true admirers). Granted, I'm sure there are exceptions, but I'm just talking in general about the admirers who hang out in CD forums and dating sites and in TG bars. I also know the type well from my own personal experience, having gone to TG bars with my SO. One admirer even sent a napkin to my SO with a proposition written on it, while she and I were sitting together. lol. (I felt bad for her ... I wanted to joke about it but she was embarrassed).

Which brings me to my question ... doesn't this present a conflict for you? Does knowing that an admirer sees you fundamentally as a guy and he's just doing what guys do when they want sex, make you feel any less feminine? Or is this something you just don't like to think about when you are dressed? I hope you don't mind my asking, but it does fit in with the thread topic.

It just seems to me there are two different agendas going on between CDs and admirers and I was wondering if knowing the reality of it all makes any difference to your feminine feelings that become enhanced when you think they are seeing you as women. Or, like I said, does it make any difference?

I admire the brave souls who will tackle my question.