AAAGGGGHHHH! Sorry about that. (Damn board logging me out @#$%^&!)
Actually, I think most states would sorta object to your marrying Biggirl unless you did something about her husband, Houseman, first. (And I’d really rather you didn’t, he’s a really great guy.)
I’m afraid that I’m going to have to call “Horsefeathers!” on this. The times I’ve met you, you’ve looked pretty damn airbrushed and well-lighted to me. I’d say that your author’s photos are a barely adequate representation of how good you look in person.
Quite the contrary. In fact, looking at that photo, my eyeballs were ping-ponging over the three of you lovelies to the point where I became vertiginous, fell off my chair, and chipped a tooth.
Obviously, tea was the least of the dishes at that particular table.
Wow! I hate to chime in on the “me-toos” but I have to say that you are being coy when you say you are average looking. I am not well known here but I hope that those who do know me know me for an honest person. I think that you are a better than average looking woman. This may be hollow prasie from a midwestern girl like me, but I think you look glamourous, refined and quite pretty. Your eyes and the tilt of your head and numerous other nuances in that picture really make you stand out as striking.
I don’t think you are model beautiful but there aren’t that many people who are. (I hope that wasn’t rude. I’m not trying to be rude. I’m just trying to be honest and to let you know that this is not false praise.) I do feel that you are better than average looking. Add your wit, style, personality, and accomplishements to that and ZOWIE! Let’s just say that I would not want to be competing with you for the same man.
I also think you would look right at home with a tiara / crown on your head entertaining a dashing prince.
Welcome back and to hell with closed minded people.
Dropzone—Well, I guess if you consider that the hormones ain’t free, they’re “store-bought.” I always advise against implants or that voice-box operation that makes one sound like Minnie Mouse on helium.
Billdo, Dave and Tevya—Ain’t you sweet. But when you consider that I’m in my mid-40s, and what odds were against me from the start, I consider myself damn lucky to be “average-looking.” I could very well have wound up looking like George Clooney in a dress! (P.S. I like “striking.” I can live with that.)
Miss C—Do ANY women like photos of ourselves? You and Perse look adorable.
We could make it work Eve, despite our differences. Even though you are tea and silk and I’m flannel and beer. You wear rope pearls and I have rope burns. You’ve got grace and humor, while I have a gut and a husband.
Oh wait, I have a husband. Never mind.
Here’s a serious question. Legally you are still male?
Doesn’t make sense to me if you are, you are more a lady than I’ll ever be and I was born with a womb.
Eve, I suppose I’m another one of those people who doesn’t know you that well. Or whom you know at all, for that matter.
But I did enjoy your posts–although you didn’t know it, you were responsible for introducing me to Lileks’ unique sense of humour, which helped me through some very long days at the office, and for which I am thankful. At any rate, I’m another who noticed your absence, and so I’m another who is glad to see that you’re back.
As for the other matter, I had no idea. But a few friends have followed the path you did, and I’m aware of the challenges that you faced. It is not an easy path to tread, and I have to say that knowing this only increases my respect and admiration for you.
Anyway, to attempt to respond to the request in your OP, I do have a question: Do you take lemon in your tea?
Okay, it’s not as funny as Lileks. But seriously, it is good to see you back.
“Here’s a serious question. Legally you are still male?”
—I dunno, to tell you the truth. It’s not a question that is apt to arise unless I try to get married or enter the Olympics, neither of which is likely to ever happen.
“I do have a question: Do you take lemon in your tea?”
—Yikes! Good tea should never need lemon, sugar or milk!
"It is not an easy path to tread . . . "
—Which makes the proper footwear all the more important.
Does this mean you have one of those beautiful, low, sultry, yet lilting voices? Please say yes.
And, as a man in his mid-40s, I think I’m eminently qualified to say, “Mmmm!” Not average. Not average at all.
You’re right that no woman cares for photographs of herself (Lord knows, Mrs. Dave-Guy doesn’t). But Miss Creant, Eve, and Persephone, you make a delicious trio. Absolutely lovely. But of course, you’re Doper wimmin! How could you be anything less?
Now, I’ve a question that I’ve wished to ask you almost since I joined the board. What is the title of or the name of the photographer of the woman doing a graceful dive from a tall building? You asked after that, apparently found the information, and from the description, I’ve been anxious to see the photo ever since.
Well, that makes me feel better, because I didn’t have the faintest idea.
Eve, you’re as cultured, witty, and devastating a lady as I would hope one day to be a gentleman. I’m so glad you’re back, and this is extremely cool news.
And I am shocked and disgusted that people have been running you down behind your back. For pity’s sake, what is the world coming to? We Dorothy Parker fans have to keep each other’s back.
I’m not entirely sure what lens you look at these things through, but just using the one I have access to, I’d like to wish you happy coming out and many happy returns!
And let me add… I looked at the Algonquin photo, and you look magnificent.
Wonderful!
I usually say “cisgendered,” like Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul.
You know how, when most people say that they were rolling on the floor, shooting tea out their nose, screaming in laughter until they were purple in the face, they’re exaggerating? I’m not. :eek:
Or Patrick Swayze. BTW, is it just me or did Patrick Swayze look like Eve Arden?
I’m looking at the Algonquin photo and you are still gorgeous!
Very rarely. Frankly, when we look at pictures of strangers, we look objectively. And when we look at friends we look with love. But we look at pictures of ourselves, we focus on the flaws and the blotches and look with harsh criticism. I have tried looking at pictures as if I was seeing a stranger, and sometimes what I see that way is much more positive than normal.
