More Absurdity

From TransGriot: 

“One of the tired memes I hear which gets repeated far too often is if a cisgender male dates a transwoman, he’s automatically slapped with the ‘gay’ label.” 

OK, weird syntax aside, I’m sure you all get where she’s coming from.  To the TeeGee Generation, transwoman  can be almost anyone who offers up gender variance.  It’s important to notice – here at least – that there is no mention of whether we are talking about pre-op, non-op, or post-op…just the word transwoman. 

TransGriot  goes on to say these choice items, all of which are hard to disagree with: 

“…one of the Prime Directives of our WPATH real life tests is that we blend in with society.” 

“Being a transperson also doesn’t stop our sex drives…” 

“Transwomen need love just like any other person walking Planet Earth.” 

“There have been some stunning looking transwomen over the last half century emerge from their cocoons to become beautiful butterflies. If they’re hetero oriented in their sexual orientation, they like going out on dates, revel in being in the company of men, getting candy, flowers, chocolate and enjoy getting intimate with them just like any other estrogen based lifeform.” 

“Since the male species that’s hetero oriented checks out the beauty first as a prelude to chasing the booty, these transwomen, like any beautiful woman do get attention from the male species.” 

But then comes the slow but inevitable slide into absolute absurdity, emphasis mine:

Forever Transitioning

Monica Helms over at Trans Universe recently put up a piece entitled Stuck in Transition.  Monica’s place is one of the blogs I mentioned a while back that has deleted comments I have made there.  Be that as it may, I thought her article was pretty good…a bit apologetic in places, a platform of excuses many use for not  having GRS in others, but pretty good nonetheless.  I would advise a read of it. 

I have often heard that “transition doesn’t stop when one has GRS, it’s just begining.”  I can understand how that is the case for some, but generally disagree with that statement.  Gender reassignment surgery should be the culmination of the transitioning process; it certainly was for me.  It seems that many who have GRS now days are very fast track in their approach and have really lived as their target sex for a time that is more easily measured in months, rather than years.  I don’t believe one can transition from male-to-female in a year or two, integrate into one’s target gender, and truthfully say they can appreciate the experience for what it is. 

But more troubling are the post ops that never leave the GLBT community.  Their transition is nothing about going from  their natal to their target sex.  It’s about the inability to adapt and fully integrate into the mainstream while, instead, relying on a community and lifestyle as a perpetual crutch.  Those are the people who are really stuck in transition…the career transsexuals.  Those are the ones who are captured by their gender issue and are either unable or unwilling to make the jump from their natal gender to the target.  One either can or they can’t.

If they can; they have.

If they can’t; they never will.

 

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Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

One of the enjoyable things about having a blog is the ability to see where some of the people who read it come from.  WordPress  calls it Referrers…it lists web pages which linked back to one’s blog.  Enough Non-Sense  sees all kind of off-the-wall web sites that for one reason or another feel a need to link here.  So, when I noticed traffic from a site starting with http://michfest.com/ I followed the link and came to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Discussion Forum – Exactly whose “transitioning”… .  I found a couple of essays from Enough Non-Sense to be the focus of a commenter named Gynophile.  You can follow the link and read if you like. 

Neither myself nor Enough Non-Sense  has ever mentioned nor commented on the MWMF either here or on another blog.  The reason should be pretty obvious: it’s insignificant.  Nothing the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival  has done, is doing, or will ever be doing holds any interest to me at all, nor 99.99 percent of the rest of the planet.  I have many interests and there are a lot of things I would like to do one day, but spending any amount of time at any of their intensive workshops would not be one of them.  In fact, attending even an hour, much less a week, with a bunch of butt-ugly, dirty, lesbian-centric, feminist females doing anything is never likely to be on high on my “to do”  list. 

But…if one day I should decide to attend MWMF, they’ll never know it.  And be truthful, Gynophile, my dear little greasy, motorcycle-smelling dyke, isn’t that what really  bothers you?

 

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