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petdave -> RE: Tyra is CROSS DRESSING tomorrow!!! (11/20/2006 5:59:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
But Dave - youre missing the point I think. Its not about how the person who is changed reacts, it is about how other people react to them. There is an argument that clothes maketh the man, but that is limited to how the man feeleth from the reactions of others unto him. What such exercises in the UK showed, was the disgraceful way that obese, disabled and old people etc experience without a murmur - but brought to full light by someone not usually subject to that treatment who thus found it noteworthy. I'm not sure how the Tyra show will do it, but the UK programmes used hidden cameras and mics to avoid the TV crew effect.
I'm sorry to hear about your job. Come work for me. We'll have fun.
E
Actually, what i was going for is that, while clothes and appearance are an important factor in the way people react to you, they also react to the way you carry yourself, the attitude you project, and what you do. Furthermore, the reactions that she gets as a man are going to be highly dependant on where she goes and what she does. Unless she is an unusually good actor, she will still have the confidence of someone who has it all, and people will react to that- subtly, but i wager it will be an influence. Would you expect people to react to a novice CD the same way they would react to a TS who had lived as that gender for several years, even if they are equally passable in appearance?
Also, my other point was that even without consciously manipulating this for the purpose of putting on a good show, a handful of calculated vignettes do not "a day in the life" make, much less "what life is like for X". If she's going out to show how she's treated differently as a man than as a woman, i expect an agenda. Once you've got an agenda and an editor, 9 times out of 10 you're gonna "prove" whatever point you set out to make.
And thanks for the offer [:)] It's hard to feel good about work on a Monday! i think the UK culture shock would do me in, though.
...dave
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