Transvestia

search endlessly for anything that will hide, erase or disguise the so-called "obviously masculine traits" of our phsiques...Some TV's even learn to sit like girls...others (after much trying) manage a very passable feminine walk (or as Virginia says: a non- masculine walk). Why do we do all these things? I feel there are at least three purposes (or targets we shoot at) when we make these various efforts to feminize in action the image we see in the mirror: 1) for our own esthetic pleasure we "feel" more feminine, 2) to impress our TV friends (vanity, you know), and 3) to help us "pass" if and when we should be out in public. But despite all these various areas of "feminization", there is one big empty gap left. The "girl" we have created is dumb. Notice that the word "dumb" can mean two things: a) lacking the power of speech, and b) lacking intelligence. I am referring to a) (although on second thought I should let b) also stand).

GG's are notoriously talkative...the impressive infinitive: "to yakketty-yak" is seldom, if ever, applied to the boys. Boys grunt, argue, discuss, comment, analyze, and what-not, but they never yak- kety-yak. And what happens to our "girl-within" once we manage to get her out of the closet? There she stands, almost beautiful, graceful as a kitten in her movements, she even smells feminine if she remembers to put on a little perfume. (Marginal thought): why is it that few perhaps I should say almost no TV bothers to put on perfume? And to prove it I ask the readers of this column to say outloud at this very moment: "the perfume that I use when I'm dressed is...." Got you! Only 3 out of one hundred could honestly say that they use perfume. And should there be someone that wants to tell me that he does not use perfume because "it lingers on" after "the boy-within" has reappeared on stage, let me say "phooey!" That's no excuse. So use cologne! It does not linger. Carry it in a little atomizer in you purse and give yourself a couple of whiffs every hour or so. (End of marginal thought. Back