Transvestites

[Ori]

What is your opinion on them?

As usual I see no problem as long as its not hurting anyone else.

 

[Green Gaia]

"I am a Drag Queen!" - To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

 

[kreeden]

A strange lot , but they help make life interesting .

And I don't mean to be putting anyone down by calling them strange . I mean that only in that I don't understand the whole concept , but that is my short coming , not theirs .

 

[jamaesi]

Is this just refering to cross-dressing?

 

[michel]

I honestly don't know - the truth maybe nearner if I said "I have insufficient knowledge of what a transvestite is (in the way that he/she? thinks) - there we are, I don't even know if there are women transvestites - just goes to prove my point; maybe someone could tell me, for my education?

 

[Fluffy]

I am in two minds about this subject as I'm sure will be evident in my following response.

It totally depends on why someone is a transvestite. I believe that a person who engages in transvestism is displaying an inner psychological condition (I don't mean that in a negative way) but such a condition is not specified in such activity because of the wide variety of possible causes.

Additionally, I think that some of these conditions are inherent whereas others are not and can be "cured" (POV). Since I can see no harm being done to others then, unless their condition hurts themselves, they can do whatever they like.

On a different note, I strongly dislike social standards regarding how the sexes should dress. In a lot of English all-girl schools, at the moment, there are a huge number of complaints against those schools who disallow their pupils to wear trousers, even during the Winter months, because it is not "womanly". The same goes for long hair in all-boys schools where the problem (in my opinion it is a problem) is far more widespread.

Some transvestites almost seem to be overemphasise the artificial differences between the genders. This I disagree with and consider a negative psychological disorder on their part if their reason for cross dressing is because they feel more like a woman, for example, yet feel the need to justify themselves by wearing a dress and their hair long when plenty of women don't do either. By placing emphasis on such things, it is creating artificial differences between the sexes and, in my books, this borders on sexism.

 

[Feathers in Hair]

Wonderful thinking points, Fluffy!

I don't think that there's anything wrong with doing it. I know there were at least a few First Nation tribes where the shamans would dress as women, because it was believed in their cultures that women were intrinsically more attuned with the Earth.

As the song goes, "If it makes you happy..."

 

[Lintu]

To me, saying this is like saying "what's your opinion of people who have brown hair" or "what's your opinion of people who eat Cheerios for breakfast?" The habits or orientation of others, at least when they do not affect me, aren't something I tend to think about like that.

 

[Bastet]

To me, saying this is like saying "what's your opinion of people who have brown hair" or "what's your opinion of people who eat Cheerios for breakfast?" The habits or orientation of others, at least when they do not affect me, aren't something I tend to think about like that.

I tend to agree.

Just as a matter of interest, has anyone here seen the tv show 'Little Britain'? It's very un-PC, but bloody funny. One of the characters is a transvestite who tries too hard to be "a lady", but very obviously isn't.

 

[Aqualung]

I can tell you, I don't think I've noticed one transvestite in my entire life. I have stood behind huge, muscular, not very well disguised men in the supermarket line, and not noticed they were men 'til my dad pointed it out to me. That's how little I care how people dress.

 

[Pussyfoot Mouse]

I've never met anyone who is a transvestite so it's difficult for me to have an opinion. I do know that I don't have a problem with it. Some of those men look better than most women I know.

 

[anders]

I haven't met even one person that I identified as a transvestite. I couldn't possibly judge all those of a similar persuasion. Probably, like hetero- or homosexuals, they come in nice persons as well as in not so nice persons.

 

[michel]

I tend to agree.

Just as a matter of interest, has anyone here seen the tv show 'Little Britain'? It's very un-PC, but bloody funny. One of the characters is a transvestite who tries too hard to be "a lady", but very obviously isn't.

It is extremely funny, I have to agree - but in small doses; the story line is a bit limited.

Is this just refering to cross-dressing?

I don't think so, why should'nt it be in good humour?:biglaugh:

As I said before, I have never met a transvestite 'proper' - but when I was in 'hospital' once, I came to know a patient who had had a total breakdown.

What it boiled down to, (cutting out all the middle bit) was that the chap - he was only young- had been dressing in his mother's clothes - more accurately, in her underwear. When he had finally 'cracked' it became apparent, from group therapy sessions, that this was merely a physical manifestation of the need of 'comfort' from his mother- I guess it's not the sort of story one forgets. I think what surprised me most, at the time, was how well we others coped with the revelation - it was a bit obtuse to say the least! Of course, I have no way of knowing what happened to him....

But it does go to show the lengths to which the mind will go!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've never seen any transvestites. I've seen a few transexuals, which looks really weird. You can tell they was a guy, but they have femine features. Just plain wierd.

 

[Jaymes]

I've never seen any transvestites.

... that you know of.