Tuesday is a day out en femme for me.
I plan to be dressed and out the door in time to go shopping as soon as the stores open in the morning.
In the afternoon, I will visit two human sexuality classes to do outreach about being trans.
I will probably eat lunch in between classes at the student center and/or I may go out to eat after the second class.
Whatever I do, I will have a full report here for you to read as soon as possible.
For his final year degree show at London South Bank University, Lee Slaymaker asks, "What is it that makes a woman? Or for that matter a man? Gender is often argued to be a social construction, free of the constraints of biological sex, with the result being that the term ‘woman’ may just as easily be applied to a feminine male subject as it is to a female one."
The following statuesque stars join the Femulate Famous Females of Height List:
Dolly Parton leading the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2007.
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. – Dolly Parton
My feelings exactly. – Staci Lana
Last week, I ordered a pair of shoes from Payless ShoeSource.
I am an Avon lady, so I am very familiar with their products and use some of them regularly.
Avon has just introduced a new product to correct crow’s feet. Their product blurb reads:
The first 2-in-1 treatment to resurface & visibly fill crow's feet… at home. Professional crow’s feet laser treatments can be painful and costly (up to $2000 per treatment). ANEW CLINICAL Crow’s Feet Corrector is a specialized eye treatment system uniquely formulated to smooth out and fill in lines around the delicate eye area — no doctors, no lasers. IN JUST 3 DAYS crow's feet lines look plumped out and leveled. OVER TIME 100% of women showed a reduction in the length, depth and number of crow's feet wrinkles.
Girls my age have crow’s feet, so I was very interested and ordered the product for myself.
After using the crow’s feet corrector for less than two weeks, I have noticed an improvement. My crow’s feet were not that bad, so I did not notice much of a difference in that area, but I did notice a big improvement regarding the wrinkles under my eyes. The corrector removed all the wrinkles and now I have smooth skin under my eyes. So, I can definitely recommend this product with one caveat.
The resurfacer applicator (step 1 of the 2-step process) can clog. If you squeeze too hard trying to unclog the applicator, you may release more of the product than you can use at one time (like I did). To work around this problem, run the applicator under hot water to unclog the clog.
I love Thanksgiving for all the following reasons:
That being said, I lost ten pounds since mid-September and I want to keep it off, so Thanksgiving will be a challenge for me. Wish me luck!
* Going to New York City the past two years to see Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in person, I sadly discovered that The Radio City Rockettes are not in the parade! They only appear at the end of the parade in front of Macy’s storefront for the television audience.
We celebrate Thanksgiving Day on Thursday. "Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general," according to Wikipedia.
No harvest here, so I guess I express “gratitude in general.”
Mother and Father are deceased, but I know that they are around in a spirit-in-the-sky kind of way, so I want to thank them for raising a beautiful daughter and not interfering with my feminine ways when I was growing up.
Maybe they could have been a little more encouraging by buying me some dresses to wear around the house (so I wouldn’t have to borrow my sister’s) and buying me some dolls of my very own (so I wouldn’t have to borrow my sister’s). It probably would have made my sister happy, too; I wouldn’t be borrowing her stuff and she would have had a sister to play with.
On the other hand, it could have been a lot worse and they could have forced me to be masculine!
So, thank you Mom and Pop for letting me be me.
(updated below)
Helen Boyd celebrates the living transgenders in her blog today.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Honor the dead, who have gone before us struggling to find a place in society as a trans-person. But do not forget to celebrate the living, who continue to fight the good fight.
Thursday, I will not be going to NYC to view the Thanksgiving day parade. I went two years ago and it was great, so I went again last year, and it was not as great.
I will probably go again, maybe next year or maybe next next year, but this year, I will watch it on television.
Anyway, in honor of the Thanksgiving day parade, my "Femulate Her" models for the next week will be exclusively from Macy's, the folks responsible for the parade.
Tuesday after Thanksgiving (December 1) is my next day out en femme.
I plan to be dressed to kill in time to be at the mall when it opens to shop for a new winter coat and whatever else strikes my fancy.
After shopping, I will drive to New Haven to do outreach at a pair of human sexuality classes at the state university. One class begins during the noon hour and the other class begins in the mid-afternoon, so during the break, I will have a late light lunch at the student center and chat with the professor and other outreach presenters.
I enjoy doing outreach. Typically, there are three or four other presenters: a mixed bag of post-op, pre-op, no-op, male-to-female or female-to-male transsexuals. We each spend five to ten minutes telling the class who we are (our mini-biographies), then the class asks questions.
I have been doing outreach for 3-1/2 years, so many of the questions I encounter are questions I have heard before, but there are always a few questions that are unique and sometimes so unexpected that they force me to think hard about my answer. Those questions are worth the price of admission.
After outreach, I may call it a day or I may have an early dinner if any of the other presenters are interested in dining with me.
I needed a pair of brown shoes to go with some earth tone dresses I bought recently.
I checked a few online shoe stores, but nothing caught my eye until I visited Payless ShoeSource and perused their new arrivals. There I found the pictured slingback platform shoe.
Its description reads, “Show off your wild side with this exotic slingback. It features a snake-print patent upper, pretty peep toe, adjustable slingback for a good fit, a padded insole for comfort and a sultry 4" wrapped heel with 1/2" platform. Manmade materials.”
They had my size in stock, so I ordered a pair for $24.99 with free shipping to my local Payless brick and mortar store.
CDJanie started using Windows Live Writer to compose posts on her blog.
I was impressed with its image-handling capabilities, so I could not resist trying out the software myself. Downloaded, installed, up and running, I am using Windows Live Writer to compose this post.
To test out its image handling prowess, I have inserted and manipulated two more photos of me from Saturday night.
The software offers some cool imaging options. So I added drop shadows and tilted the photos. That was easy!
Marcus Buckingham writes in The Huffington Post today:I'm not so sure. In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.
Read the rest of the story here.
Femulators tend to have bigger feet than the females they are femulating. Those of us in double-digit women's sizes discover quickly that the selection of shoes is limited.
Candy is a new fashion magazine "completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations."
This is Transgender Awareness Week.
