The Miss Eng'g (Engineering) womanless beauty pageant at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman is one of the best, if not the best womanless pageant conducted at an educational institute or anywhere else for that matter. Femulate readers agree with that assessment because whenever I post something about Miss Eng'g here, you readers voice your approval.
Oak, a Femulate reader and Miss Eng'g fan, combed the Internet looking for more on Miss Eng'g and was very successful. I have a four-page list of links compiled by Oak that go back as far as 2001 that document the Miss Eng'g pageant in photos. The quality of some of the photos is not the best, but the quality of the femulations depicted in those photos is excellent.
Without further adieu, here is a link to photos from the 2001 installment of the pageant.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Can't Get Enough of Miss Eng'g
Friday, February 27, 2015
Miss Eng’g 2015
Miss Engineering (Miss Eng'g, for short), one of the premiere womanless beauty pageants, will be held on March 6 at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman. The Miss Engineering Facebook page already has photographs documenting the pageant including an album of spectacular evening gown photos (samples above and below).
Wow!
(Thank you, Cheryl, for the heads-up about the Miss Eng'g pageant.)
Wearing Julie Brown.
Contestant in the 2015 Miss Eng’g womanless beauty pageant.
Monday, March 26, 2018
The Engaging Miss Eng'g
The Miss Eng'g (Engineering) womanless beauty pageant at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman is one of the best, if not the best womanless pageant conducted at an educational institute or anywhere else for that matter. This year's edition of the pageant was held on March 9 and the Miss Engineering Facebook page has hundreds of photographs documenting the pageant including an album of spectacular evening gown photos (samples above and below).
Wow!
In the 1969, I was a student in the UConn School of Engineering and I cannot imagine my fellow engineering students participating in anything like this. Me, yes, but not the other students in my school!
(Thank you Aunty Marlena for the heads-up about the pageant!)
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Wearing Zuhair Murad |
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A contestant struts his stuff in the evening gown competition of the 2018 Miss Eng'g womanless beauty pageant. |
Monday, December 27, 2021
Miss Eng’g: Blast from the Past
A Miss Eng’g Contestant |
Over the weekend, a former pageant contestant commented on a Miss Eng’s post from 2011. Since most current readers will not see that post or the recent comment, I am repeating it here.
Anonymous left the following comment:
I always wondered if the “girls” were experienced in dressing before the event, or did they do this for the 1st time. I remember reading an article about one of the girls and their girlfriend helped them out, but looking at some of the girls they are quite experienced looking.
Our weekend commenter responded:
I was a Ms Engg contestant myself but in early 2000s. I wore my female cousin’s 18th birthday gown. It was very uncomfortable because the dress was so tight I almost couldn’t breathe (my mother made me wear a girdle (?) because I had beer belly for me fit into the gown). Not to mention walking/standing on heels. I had fun though as it was my last semester of uni so it was like me saying goodbye to college life with a bang.
Lucky guy!
Wearing StyleWe |
Marian Andersen, a Femulate reader and femulator |
Saturday, January 21, 2012
2004 & 2005 Miss Eng'g Womanless Pageants
Last Saturday, I presented the first of many webpage links sent to me by Femulate reader Oak featuring photos from the Miss Eng'g (Engineering) womanless beauty pageant at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman.
In response to that posting, some of you sent me additional Miss Eng'g links - thank-you. I will collate those links with Oak's links and post them here as I reveal the Miss Eng'g links in a yearly fashion.
Last week's post referenced photos from the 2001 pageant. This week, I proffer photos from the 2004 and 2005 editions of the pageant.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Miss Bebot (Beyond Miss Eng'g)
In the past, Femulate has noted the Miss Eng'g pageant at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman, which many acclaim as one of the best womanless contests in existence. It turns out that the Miss Eng'g pageant is just the tip of the iceberg; the Philippines is a hotbed of womanless pageantry.
The word "bebot" is Filipino slang for "pretty woman," similar to how the word "babe" is slang in many English-speaking countries.
"Bebot" is also used as the name of a variety of womanless beauty pageants, for example, "Miss Bebot," "Ms. Bebot," "Mr. Bebot," etc. These contests are held throughout the Philippines... in grade schools, high schools, colleges, civic groups and beyond. For example, at one Filipino hospital's Christmas party, the male nurses competed in a Miss Bebot Contest (photo above).
On Pinterest, Kelly Crossita has a collection of photos from various Bebot pageants. I think you will enjoy the view.
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Wearing Metrostyle. |
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Contestant Number 6 in a Filipino Miss Bebot womanless beauty pageant. |
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Miss Eng’g Again
In February, I wrote here about the Miss Eng'g (Engineering) womanless beauty pageant at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman.
In my opinion, it was "one of the best, if not the best womanless pageant conducted at an educational institute, whether it be grammar school, middle school, high school, or college."
Yamini just informed me that the 2011 installment of the pageant has its Facebook page up and running.
This year's contestants are as amazing as past year contestants. It is hard to believe that the "girls" are really boys; all the femulations are excellent.
But that is just my opinion. See for yourself by visiting the Miss Eng'g Facebook page and feast your eyes on the images displayed at the following links:
Truly amazing!
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
2007 Miss Eng'g Womanless Pageant
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2007 IE Club's Miss Eng'g Contestant |
Femulate proudly presents the excellent femulations from the 2007 edition of the The Miss Eng'g (Engineering) womanless beauty pageant at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman.
Again, thank you, Oak for the links.
Friday, December 13, 2013
My My My
My Wife
Many of you have passed along positive thoughts concerning my wife’s surgery. I thank you for that and wanted to pass along a progress report. She is doing very well and is transitioning from using a walker to a cane.
My Blog
Nursing her back to health has taken its toll on this blog. I barely manage to publish a new post every day. I probably missed a few days and would have missed more, but the always lovely Paula Gaikowski filled in and provided three posts where there might have been none.
My E-Mail
Responding to e-mails has taken a back seat and I am way behind, but promise to catch up as soon as possible.
My Favorite Womanless Beauty Pageant
In case you don’t read the comments to the posts here, I just wanted to pass along Tampa Sheila’s comment to the recent Miss Eng’g 2013 post in which she explains that you don’t need a Facebook account to view Facebook pages and images.
For example, click on this link to the Miss Eng’g Facebook page and when your browser opens the page, click on the Photos link to access individual photos and albums containing more photos.
Caveat Emptor: There are a LOT of photos on the Miss Eng’g Facebook page, probably numbering in the thousands.
My Sources
Readers occasionally suggest that I indicate the sources of the images I use in the blog.
If I know the source, mousing over the image will reveal the source. If I don’t know the source, “Femulate Archives” will appear as the source. Problem is that I have been collecting these images for nearly 15 years and the collection contains nearly 65,000 items, so please forgive me for not remembering where they all came from.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Miss Eng'g 2013
Miss Engineering 2013 will be selected in the ultimate womanless beauty pageant on December 19 at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman. Although the pageant is next Thursday, the Miss Engineering Facebook page already has hundreds of photographs (with more to come) documenting the pageant and its preliminary events.
It is still snowing here as I type this and I have pretty much abandoned any hope of going to the Avon representatives holiday party tonight.
Thank you, Juliet Ventura for alerting me about Miss Eng'g 2013.
Actor Raul Gonzalez femulating in television’s Desplerta America, 2013.
Wearing Diana von Furstenberg.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
"Little Miss Gay” Beauty Pageants
I have previously discussed at some length the proliferation of elaborate womanless beauty pageants in the Deep South of the U.S. We’ve noted the irony of parents dressing their sons like beauty queens while openly condemning trans people. In a different culture halfway around the world, a similarly befuddling phenomenon exists in the form of “Little Miss Gay” pageants in the Philippines.
(Caveat: I am in no way an anthropologist. I do not speak, read or understand Tagalog. I am not offering any judgments or concluions in this brief overview, which is based solely on what I have obsrved on the Internet. I simply suggest that this is an area ripe for study by those better suited to the task than I am.)
Despite living in a society dominated religiously by Catholicism and facing widepread opposition, the LGBT community in the Phillippines is quite active. As in the U.S., there are circuits of “Miss Gay” pageants in which femulating men compete. But where the similarity ends is that while such pageants in America are strictly adult events, in the Phillippines they reach far down in age to include young boys competing for the title of “Little Miss Gay.” Such events are sometimes staged in conjunction with adult pageants, while other are unaffiliated affairs sometimes sponsored by schools or churches.
(Just as a note of annotation here: it should be pointed out that the English word “gay” as used in the Philippines isn’t strictly a term referencing sexual orientation. It is more generically applied to anyone in the LGBT community, even heterosexual crossdressers.)
As in the U.S. womanless pageants, the “Little Miss Gay” events can often be very elaborately staged affairs, even in impoverished communities. And the attention given to the femulations is even more intense and detailed. While U.S. schoolboys in womanless pageants are mostly doing it as a one-time lark, some of the Filipino boys regularly compete in pageants. Many of them adopt female names and personas and some even grow their own hair out to feminine lengths and have it cut, styled and colored like a girl. And the parents – the power behind the crown as in U.S. female child beauty pageants – will spend prolifically on their son’s pageant wardrobe.
Another difference from American womanless pageants is that while the U.S. affairs are strictly PG-rated, the Little Miss Gay events sometimes find children dressing, dancing, singing or acting in what we would consider a very inappropriate sexually provocative manner. It is very off-putting and creepy to Westerners (like me) to learn about this phenomenon.
Who are these boys? Are they gay and/or trans and embracing it at an early age? Are they being exploited by their parents or worse, is there some degree of coercion or abuse behind it all? As I said, I’m not academically equipped to find answers and only suggest that the phenomenon is one that merits further study and investigation by more qualified people.
(Editor's Note: Philippines is also the nation where very realistic womanless beauty pageants are conducted at the university level, for example, the Miss Eng'g pageant, which has been mentioned here numerous times in the past.)
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Wearing New York & Company (Source: New York & Company) |
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Contestant Number 7 in the South Hill, Virginia, Relay for Life Womanless Beauty Pageant |
Friday, April 7, 2017
Grab Bag or Purse or Pocketbook
Thank you all who passed along your kind thoughts to ease my grieving over the death of my dear cat.
She was the friendliest cat I have ever known. If you were her friend, she would start purring as soon as she saw you and would run over to greet you.
She will be irreplaceable and it will take a long time to get used to living without her.
Thank you all again!
Miss Eng'g
Auntie Marlena informed me that the 2017 installment of the Miss Engineering (Miss Eng'g) Facebook page is up and running and full of photos (like the one on the right) and videos from the amazing womanless beauty pageant put on annually at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman.
Payless Closing 400 Stores
Payless Shoe Stores filed for bankruptcy and will be closing 400 stores. Here is a list of the store closings. My favorite Payless stores were not on the list; I hope your favorite stores miss the list, too.
Adam/Amanda
Actor Jackson Rathbone femulated on a 2009 episode of television's Criminal Minds playing a perpetrator with a split personality (Adam/Amanda).
In the past, I have seen photos of Jackson's excellent femulation (see below). Patty just alerted me to a behind-the-scenes video of the episode including Jackson's transformation from Adam to Amanda. It is worth the watch to see Jackson's femulation in motion.
Trans Health & Law Conference Workshop Schedule
The workshop schedule for the April 29th Trans Lives Conference at the UConn Health Center has just been published here and my "Makeup Basics for Trans Females" workshop is in the 9:30 to 10:30 AM slot. I hope to see you there!
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Wearing Caroline Constas top and Cinq à Sept skort. |
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Jackson Rathbone femulating on TV's Criminal Minds. |
Friday, December 14, 2012
Miss Eng’g (She’s Back!)
The 2012 installment of the Miss Eng'g (Engineering) womanless beauty pageant will take place Saturday evening at the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman.
This year, the pageant's Internet presence is on Facebook. There are a lot of photos of the pageant contestants in male and female garb (more of the former than the latter) on Facebook now and I am sure there are more female garb photos to come this weekend. So visit the page and revisit it often.
Friday, December 7, 2012
2012 Miss Eng'g Video
In case you are unaware of the annual Miss Eng'g competition, the girls in this video are boys!
Thursday, December 29, 2011
A Womanless Cornucopia
Updated Below
Thanks to Aunty Marlena, I present you with a cache of womanless events.
Miss Eng'g 1
Miss Eng'g 2
Womanless Beauty Pageant (unknown location)
UPDATE: I have taken your comments to heart and deleted the links to the noxious ones.
Friday, February 24, 2012
From the school that brings you Miss Eng'g...
Femulate readers are familiar with the Miss Eng'g (Engineering) womanless beauty pageant at
the College of Engineering, University of Philippines-Diliman.
News from the University is that "for the first time in the student council elections history of the
University of the Philippines in Diliman, a candidate is running against
two fraternity men and a woman to become the first transgender
Chairperson of UP Diliman’s University Student Council (USC).
"Speaking before hundreds of supporters at the historical Palma Hall
Steps, Gabriel Paolo 'Heart' Diño vowed to bring genuine change in UP
Diliman if she’s given the chance to win as USC Chairperson.
"'I came here not only to speak about what changes we want in our
University Student Council. I also stand before you to remind that you,
yourselves, are the change this university and this nation needs,' Diño
said."
Read the rest of the story at Citizen Media Blog Watch.
Monday, March 9, 2015
The Other Woman
After 21 years of marriage, he gave me the news. He is finally becoming himself — but I am more lost than ever
I saw a headline recently reporting how proud Bruce Jenner’s mother is of him (her). While that’s both noble and supportive, what I haven’t seen are stories about the private struggle — the husbands, wives and children who suddenly find themselves faced with difficult choices.
I’m here to tell you one.
Read the rest of Diana Matthew’s Salon story here.
Wearing Anthropologie.
The winner of the 2015 Miss Eng’g womanless beauty pageant
(Thank-you, Cheryl for the photo)