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28 November 2007
So some dude just emailed me on myspace to say I'm hot ...he thought I was a drag queen.
Drag queens are the hottest creatures on the face of this earth- the clothes, the makeup, the SEQUINS! I would become a man and dress in my own clothing if it meant even one person would mistake me for a drag queen.
The question is, can you pull off "I Will Survive" in heels?
Are you kidding? I can't even walk to get the mail in heels most days!
It's just kind of...odd. I found myself examining my neck for an hour in the mirror, trying to see if it looked like I had an adam's apple.
(my neck looks older than I remembered, but no apple that I could see.)
A bartender friend of mine once got the compliment to her face "You're so beautiful, I can't believe you're a man." Granted it was a gay bar, but she had to go in the back and giggle for a looooong time.
NPR once featured a story about a woman who worked as a Las Vegas showgirl.
One of her acts involved performing with three or four drag queens. The audience had to pick which one of them was the real biological female.
She said that the audiences never got it right. It was always "Oh, I thought it was that one over there, the pretty one." or something along those lines.
Last weekend, I got introduced to a m-f trans (an acquaintance of my wife) and got totally fooled.
This person was beautiful, in a very tomboy way. No makeup, Patagonia-type clothes, tall, willowy, AND a geology professor. I mean, what's not to like out of the above attributes?
Upon the end of this particular stop-and-chat, I and hearing from my wife that she used to be a he, I had to tell her how much I was lusting in my heart, while talking to her.
I think it's the only time I have been unaware. . .