DO you think Crossdressers would get proper respect in the society?

[AnnieMac]

Well not all at once. Things will slowly change as men get to have more freedom in their wardrobe choices without it begin some kind of problem. Just look at the number of guys in the NBA now wearing tights, as well as just male day to day joggers wearing running tights and workout pants in the gym or on the street. Its become kind of normal. Another thing I see more on guys internationally and not so much in the US, is fashion scarves looped around on the outside of their jackets, very similar to our female soul mates. I have seen a few, but not a lot of male style skirts in countries like Denmark, Germany, and Australia that seem to work rather nicely. I'm not sure you could even call that cross dressing. Eyeglasses are pretty much unisex anymore.And who bothers to look at guys with earrings or long hair anymore? thats pretty acceptable.
But we do have to be totally honest with ourselves as cross dressing guys. The reason women don't get the kind of scrutiny that male cross dressers get, when they wear something male, is because they are usually not doing it because it is sexually or fetish related. Most of us, and I hate to say I have to include myself, dress, because we do get some kind of "excitement" out of it so it is still very much a kind of a fetish, which is out of the realm of day-to-day normal. Oh sure I don't dress because it gets me arouses any more (like I did when I was 15) but dressing does provide it's own kind of calming "excitement" and fun. Women are not doing this when they throw on a pair of male looking jeans or slacks ( at least I don't think so). So we have to be honest and say our behavior is still a little bit out there, although as the years pass it will become less and less I think.
I can easily see in the next 5-7 years or so, this kind of unisex outfit that women wear now that will eventually filter down to men, is the long sweater dress or tunic with leggings, that you see women wear everywhere now. Not that big of a stretch that that becomes a male style as well, mostly because it seems so easy and comfortable. It seems almost unisex now when I see women wear fashions like that.