Your opinion on crossdressing

[Verp]

I often ask myself "Is it socially acceptable for a man to wear a dress?" and every time the answer is "No", I know that gender equality does not yet exist in my country and that there's still work to do.

 

[Daedalus1942]

It creeps me out and I think it looks gross. But if the person likes it, its not my buisness

Same here. I also find it to be quite disturbing when the conversion is convincing and the person does not identify them selves as being male.

and why exactly is that? it's not interesting if you don't elaborate.

It is being untruthful in a very severe way. When someone looks like a woman you expect them to be one. So a man who tricks another into thinking that they are a woman will permanently change the way the victim views other people.
This has not happened to me, but a buddy of mine had a few to many and was freaked out to find the girl he took home was not female. (thought the person had plastic surgery to make themselves look more convincing.)

you do realize most women make damn convincing men right? then the part with your friend, he was drunk it's his own fault (for all you know she told him but he was too wasted to understand) and as for the "girl" how do you know it wasn't a transgirl, rather than a cross dresser, there is a massive difference.

-Tabs<3-

since I'm not exactly very knowledgeable on the subject I'll defer to Tabs to cover the whole difference between cross dressing and being trans. (take it away girl)
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They are both different spectrums of transgenderism.
More often than not crossdressers (transvestites) are perfectly heteorosexual cisgendered males that have a penchant for expressing their feminine side through wearing clothes of the opposite gender despite being completely confident in their sexuality.
They are more often straight than gay.

Transsexuals are people who are physically born as either male or female.
The brain however develops along the path of the opposite gender, which causes this massive rift between body and mind. Oftentimes people take their own life because they can't deal with it. It's no laughing matter and transitoning still conitunes to be treated by medical professions as "elective surgery" rather than life-saving, which it really is.

In the case of myself and I really resent being called "a man who tricks another into thinking that they are a woman".
Girls like myself are developmentally women (no matter what you think).
We received the female hormones to the brain but the male hormones to the body. Need proof we are more female than male? http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan.html
I find your post highly offensive and grossly misinformed, Hashime.
-Tabs<3-

 

[crudus]

People can go for it as long as they don't get uppity about me confusing their gender and tell me upfront that I am hitting on them while they are dudes.

 

[the rye]

Well there's nothing wrong with it,didn't think it was even an issue.
One of my close friends used to make me crossdress... i don't know why though.

 

[godfist88]

it's a little, well odd but whatever. as long they're not doing anything illegal i don't care.

 

[Nova Helix]

Who decides what are woman cloths and what are guy cloths, and why should you care what someone else wears?

 

[BeanDelphiki]

On the other hand there are some things that are still called crossdressing, a man wearing drag, for instance. But these things only apply to males.

Yeah, it's impossible for girls to crossdress. Even if they wear a men's shirt no one bats an eyelash.

I couldn't care less about it. As for "can girls crossdress?"...
I don't know. Good one.

Happy to clear this up for people:

[a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=drag+kings&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a"]Drag kings.[/a]

It exists.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Similar to my opinion of Fuzies. they're weird, but I don't care about what they do aslong as they don't care about me making jokes about them (all in good humor)

 

[Astoria]

I see nothing wrong with it. And a woman who cross dresses is called a tomboy

 

[p3t3r]

well if it is a guy it is weird and if it is a girl then it is still weird. i think a fair bit of a time the girl is wearing guy clothes because they are uncomfortable with their body. it is also more generally accepted for a girl to where guy clothes.

 

[cernik]

I don't see anything wrong with crossdressing.
Bonus points to the people in drag if they can really pull it off well.

 

[blaize2010]

it's not a skirt, it's a kilt

 

[Lightnr]

Its obviously pretty gay. Which can be misleading to homosexuals.

 

[TiefBlau]

Don't care. Obviously, drag creeps me out, but that's more cultural than anything else. If a guy wants to wear a dress, make-up, and fishnet stockings, more power to him.

It's also interesting what directions androgynous clothing can go and still be culturally accepted. Girls can wear pretty much anything, guys these days can wear girl's jeans and teeter dangerously in blouse territory, and they can even wear kilts, but the moment it's explicitly a dress, all hell breaks loose.

Also, women can't wear suits, so I guess they can't really wear anything. But the backlash for dudes wearing dresses is larger than for chicks wearing suits.

Its obviously pretty gay. Which can be misleading to homosexuals.

As a tangent, is Richard Simmons gay? I honestly can't tell whether he's playing it for laughs or genuinely gay.