OttersSwim -> RE: I have a small question... (11/7/2009 7:11:19 AM)
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So there is a joke that runs in our circles: What is the difference between a crossdresser and a transsexual? About three years... It is a joke, but like many jokes, it contains a thread of truth in it - the truth of evolution. This is a path to enlightenment just as sure as any other. It is the realization of self. Self - something that is understood for most by age 3 to 5. For the future crossdresser/transperson/genderqueer/etc. the realization is not self, but difference. Society does not embrace difference - even to a 5 year old that distinction is perfectly clear. Further, as a child, most of us do not have the reasoning capacity to understand our difference - we just know that we are different. When I tried to play with dolls, I had all dolls taken away from me - even GIJoe. When I played with my sister's makeup and perfume, I was punished... It does not take long before such a child learns new words that take on a different context - hide, deny, repress... You want to be a girl, but you can't, and so as you get a bit older, you learn a new term in a new context - objectify... Girls become wonderful, amazing, incredible... Now take yourself through puberty. Hormones rage and that objectification turns sexual. You learn how to masturbate, and what do you fantasize about - being Her... But you cannot be Her. The closest you can come is her trappings - clothing, makeup, shoes. And so eventually you start dressing...but you are still in hiding. As you translate into a young adult, you discover computers, and porn...what do you go looking for? People like you. Crossdress porn leads quickly to femdom porn and to the concept of Forced Feminization... There's a lot of that stuff out there and if you don't know any better, you could easily mistake fantasy for education. You are repressed, you are in hiding, the real you is not accepted...you need to let these feelings in you out! For a time, the concept of being forced to do this thing can bring some relief and rationalization is a wonderful thing and very easy for humans to do. Your urges become fetishishized... Hopefully, and this is a critical step...you eventually reason. None of the real girls you know are anything like the women in all this porn you have been lapping up. Further, you are getting on in life and isn't it time to come to grips with this thing inside you? Maybe the library...or perhaps you know someone who is homosexual...yea, maybe I can figure this out...keep it from blowing the top of my head off every year or so from the repression. Maybe you need counseling...maybe you find a group... Maybe you are 22, 35, or 66 when this finally happens and you finally end up in a place of authenticity...peace...and finally a realization of ...self... I am going to ask people who are reading this to understand that there is an evolution to self that is going on in everyone you meet or encounter who is crossdressing or trans or genderqueer. It is important that we try to perceive where they are in that journey... Many of these people are very repressed and disturbed because society does not allow them to be who they really are without consequence. We here on CM see a lot of folk that are just in that initial stage of reason. They are casting about for understanding but they are still deeply repressed and their feelings are highly fetishized. It is easy to encounter someone either before or in the early stages of reason about their gender identity, have a negative reaction, and think - wow, all people like that are just fucked up. But I see a lot of generalizations about crossdressers and trans folk as a whole in posts. I guess that I would encourage people to look at a crossdresser or transperson and try to evaluate where they are in their evolution. Meet them not with judgement and condescention, but perception and understanding and compassion. It is not an easy road... Don't dismiss as a group, but evaluate the person. As I said in my earlier post, there are males who have girlie leanings in all types who want to have real D/s relationships. Who understand that S&M does not mean "stand and model", who are actually looking to serve. And who have taken the time to sort out their baggage and evolve into authenticity and self. I certainly get and honor the fact that there are Ladies out there that are not into girlie males from the aspect of sexual or social attraction. Not your thing, no worries. And I get that there are people for whom being smashed flat with a clue would not help...in all groups and walks of life - girlie boys are not excluded and we have seen a few come through here. But I hope that before we dismiss, mock, or scorn someone who we encounter, we would use our reason and perception to try to actually see them. See where they are in their journey...and maybe do a thing or two to help them along. [:)]
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