My life as a man in a skirt - interesting article

[astro]

My life as a man in a skirt

For the great bulk of my adult life, beginning roughly when I was sixteen, and continuing, off and on, until now, at the age of forty, I have fallen short, sometimes dangerously short, of the conventional ideal of masculinity. From my taste in clothing (skirts and high heels and women’s underwear), to my taste in cosmetics (pink lip gloss and eyeliner), to my taste in sex (I can’t get aroused unless I’m submissive, and it helps if the woman looks like a boy), to my distaste for body fat and body hair and competition of any kind, to the two hours it still takes me to get ready to go out at night, I have behaved, in many respects – and I have gotten no end of shit for it – like a vain, prissy, neurotic, body-obsessed “woman.” Or, in the words of a powerful Italian mobster named Jackie the Toad, with whom I worked very closely for a year after college, I have behaved, revoltingly, like “half-a-fag.”

[Guinastasia]

So he’s an executive transvestite?

[Arrendajo]

Shit he should move to Eugene. He’d fit right in here. And half the people in town flit from one hand to mouth job to another.

[Malacandra]

@Arrendajo

Shit he should move to Eugene. He’d fit right in here. And half the people in town flit from one hand to mouth job to another.

Is it very wrong of me that I fleetingly got quite a disturbing mental image from the last sentence? :eek:

[Argent_Towers]

Very interesting guy! He’s got big, big balls to do what he does.

[Monty]

@Malacandra

Is it very wrong of me that I fleetingly got quite a disturbing mental image from the last sentence? :eek:

Guess you’re not alone. I initially read it as:

And half the people flit from one hand job to mouth job to another.

Maybe we can blame Arrendajo for not using the correct spelling?

[Hilarity_N.Suze]

His self-description leaves a lot to be desired.

Vain, prissy, neurotic, and body-obsessed, I get.

“Woman” (in quotes yet!) I don’t get.

So he’s half a fag, and he hates women? Or anyway, has a really low opinion of them.

I don’t think he sounds like an interesting guy. I think he sounds like a whiner.

[Alessan]

@Guinastasia

So he’s an executive transvestite?

Damn you. I was going to say that.

[Rigamarole]

@Arrendajo

Shit he should move to Eugene. He’d fit right in here. And half the people in town flit from one hand to mouth job to another.

I’m not quite sure I understand the connection you are making… are you saying that crossdressing = poverty/unskilled labor?

[Sierra_Indigo]

@Rigamarole

I’m not quite sure I understand the connection you are making… are you saying that crossdressing = poverty/unskilled labor?

If you actually read the article, the guy talks about how he’s lived for the last several years in a series of doss situations, living hand-to-mouth (in his words), taking odd-jobs like babysitting instead of using his law degree to get a well paying job.

[Cicero]

@Malacandra

Is it very wrong of me that I fleetingly got quite a disturbing mental image from the last sentence? :eek:

That makes three of us (Monty included).

[TokyoBayer]

@Hilarity_N.Suze

I don’t think he sounds like an interesting guy. I think he sounds like a whiner.

He seems to be blaming everything on wearing skirts, but it’s the not working and saving money part which seems to be the real problem.

I’m sure someone will buy the book, but I’ll pass.

[Guinastasia]

@Alessan

Damn you. I was going to say that.

Hey, you snooze you lose. I got here first.

[DocCathode]

I agree that the guy seems whiny and I’ll skip the book. If I want to read something by a man in a skirt, we have our own AHunter3. His writing is neither whiny nor pretentious.

[Cat_Whisperer]

AHunter3 is a man in a skirt? I did not know that.

[DocCathode]

Yes, he sometimes wears a skirt and self identifies as “sissy” heterosexual man. He’s very passionate in his views on gender. I was honestly surprised to find he hadn’t already posted to this thread. As soon as I can figure out the proper search words, I’ll post links to relevant posts.

Please Note- I am only repeating what AHunter3 has said himself many times. I am NOT attempting to insult him or talk behind his back. Hopefully he’ll pop in and share his experiences with us.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13078882&postcount=7

[DocCathode]

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7231537&postcount=11

Unfortunately, the link to his Earhlink page with his writings on gender and pictures of him in a skirt no longer works.

[AHunter3]

Well this is a rather timely thread. I just acquired a new one

[Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension]

Too dark, looks like a kilt.

[Rysdad]

@AHunter3

Well this is a rather timely thread. I just acquired a new one

Tommy Chong, in a kilt, with a keyboard.