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Yep, that’s about it. 20-some years on the dating market taught me it just was not going to happen. Look how hard it is for non-trans people to find The Special Person! Add Baby’s Little Secret into the mix, and, well . . . Fortunately, I am too old and fat for anyone to think of in that way anyway, and I am contentedly settled into spinsterhood.
It’s just not very pleasant to be reminded (as I was in a recent thread) that “I make people throw up,” is all.
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Yeah, well…how’s about I make you throw up instead
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I’d date you!
Seriously. If we lived closer and you didn’t know my politics and were interested in me, I’d date you…and be glad of it!
And if a mean, selfish, uncaring, greedy, unthinking, narrow-minded, knuckle-dragging archconservative like me can find you attractive and interesting, I’m sure that - living in the very heart of liberalism such as you do - you should certainly be able to find someone who’s capable of relating to you as a woman…and an interesting and challenging one, at that.
I suspect that more men are put off by intimidation rather than your sexual status. Many men are put off by intelligent, critical, sharp-witted women…and you are rather Dorothy Parkerish, you know.
I suspect that this, in conjunction with your rather esoteric interests, simply cause too many men to feel either outgunned in terms of intellect and/or areas of interest…or they simply aren’t interested in the type of life that your interests and personality presents them with and ‘Baby’s Little Secret’ provides them with an escape route that doesn’t require them to admit to themselves that you intimidate them.
You seem content with your life as it is and it’s not my intention to suggest that you’d be happier living in a different way…I, too, have found that living without a mate allows me to be truer to my ‘muse’, so to speak. Still, I wanted you to know that there are men out there who not only don’t find you repulsive, but attractive and desirable…at least until your brains and acerbic manner scare us off. 
Please know that no response to this post is required or expected. It’s just that I happen to be one who admires your wit, looks, intelligence and interests, and it pains me to see you having to endure comments such as the one in your post above. Certainly not everyone feels that way and I just wanted you to know it.