MsVal, how old are you? I am envious of anyone under thirty, who have come of age in a more enlightened era, and have enough youth left in them to really rock a dress.
As an over fifty, I grew up surrounded by poisonous attitudes towards any male that was less than a "man's man". Anyone appearing even slightly effeminate was considered fair game to be singled out, harassed, ridiculed, beaten, or even killed. My own father said more than once, "Look at that. Is it a boy or girl? That makes me sick. What IT needs is a bullet in ITs head". That stays with you forever and makes you believe every one feels similarly, if less extreme. In that same atmosphere, many girls also learn that femininity is unacceptable.
Under those conditions, the real question is, Why would any man ever admit to being a crossdresser? I am glad we have moved forward enough so that I have the freedom to express my feminInity, but it hasn't always been safe to do it.
