Yes, guys can get it, but it is much more rare.
Plus there are so many women's shoes that just fall off my feet or give me blisters or ....or. Despite my wishes I'm reduced to trainers most of the time. keep to the Fen Causeway
Seriously I've tried cos I love wearing heels, I love how they make me feel, but...I can't. keep to the Fen Causeway
Helen, I never knew that about men's feet, how odd. Of course, it makes me wonder how some of those drag queens manage the monster heels they wear. Those shoes look painful enough as it is without that factored in. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
Also different people grow in different ways, I was fortunate in that I don't have huge ridges and so don't have to worry about them on my eyebrows and hands, but they're enough to hurt my feet. keep to the Fen Causeway
What does this mean? (Go easy on me). When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
Lacking any bony ridges, that may be the only possible way to go on you. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
I should point out that one of my friends is an FtM, so I've kinda seen a lot of trans stuff from the other side. He has actually written a report about transsexual people and health care in Europe, which I am considering a diary about, just cause he's my friend. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
Eyebrow ridges are bony protusions on men's faces. It seems related to manual labour cos you see them regularly on builders etc, but rarely on office workers. I guess ya gotta be looking for them cos mostly we see the face, not the constituent parts.
Talking of essays on transgenderism, here are the three I wrote
Thoughts in a Waiting Room
In the Land between Blue and Pink
Men/Women : Emotions and multi-tasking keep to the Fen Causeway
Also, I found your analysis of your condition to be different to what I expected. My friend is often quick to overturn common narratives, and rephrase his experiences and insights in entirely new ways.
You also mentioned you were working on a 'transition diary'. Anything come of it? Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
What analysis of my condition did you expect ? I'm curious. keep to the Fen Causeway
I hope I made it plain that TGs are less united by their similarities than by their dissimilarities. Each of us has a different experience of our condition, a different understanding of it. It is very easy to read books and trim your personal narrative to fit an attractive wider theory as a form of self-validation. But too many of these books are written by people who early on betray they have no real understanding of the phenomenon. For instance, the entire charing Cross experience is driven by what I consider to be an unsympathetic psychological approach that regards people who aren't dissuaded and proceed to surgery as failures.
So there are no wider views, I extrapolate where I can, but make it plain that I am doing so from a statistical sample of one.
I can only write about what happened to me and how I felt about it. keep to the Fen Causeway
You know, respect for all the shoe diaries and such - but WHY?
Mysteries of life.
<ducks and runs very far away> You can't be me, I'm taken
I hope that this was quite a bit down the list, after 'some men are pigs', and 'smiling is obligatory'. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
Most women in the UK seem to be of the "all men are bastards" opinion. I've actually had rather terse conversations where my willingness to defend males has been taken as a sign that I'm still not a real woman.
Smiling isn't obligatory, but people are nicer to women so smiling is easier. keep to the Fen Causeway
It would depend on the individual actions and character of a man as to whether I would defend him, but I think it unacceptable to abuse whoever chose to do so. The women who insulted you were out of line, and you ought to have come back by asking why the hell they thought they were women? Their answer would have probably been nothing more than some essentialist or constructionist diatribe. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
Their answer would have probably been nothing more than some essentialist or constructionist diatribe.
It has long been my argument that essentialism displaced feminism in the UK over 30 years ago. The difference between the "feminist" debates in the UK compared to say France or the US is a generational chasm. keep to the Fen Causeway
I'm personally not of the opinion that all men are bastards. Some men are really quite beautiful and wonderful people.
Phew! I feel relieved... "Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char
