A lot to quote.
Maybe Fedor broke me, but I am pretty sure your jaw structure and popeye arms are a dead giveaway, dude. Not sure what vanessa did different, but he doesnot have the same issue. Maybe its eye makeup?
Morrow is a longtime, non-crazy lady; nothing but
<3
I like
Vanessa
though, because she seems to understand the wide range of cultural response to trans and just shrugs it off without the animosity or forcing macro re educations
I'm just a realist; it's very simple. If it's not reality, it is bullshit. I'm not a fan of bullshit.
To repeat myself for a second here, because it's important enough to be repeated:
NEVER forget the distinction between transsexuals like myself and the non-binary, victimhood type of so-called transgenders out there in the world. We are only similar by ONE trait in my opinion: the word Transgender. Besides that, there is nothing else in common and I am proud of that fact, rest assured.
The rest, are like what Vanessa and the other sane ones are. Just wanting to go about their lives and treated normal. And I give them that. No funny looks, every bit as super friendly and helpful as I am with anyone else.
^ Basically how it is.
I started my newest gig right at the start of the year at Amazon. I've still told 0 people. 0 people have asked. This is
exactly how I want it. I let the cat out of the bag here at FoH for the lulz and boy it's been worth it, can't lie. My old job I was at for 9 years; the last 5 of which were hell. I transitioned there. I was treated horribly, and it was only after I got to Amazon where literally no one knew anything about me except -
who Vanessa was- did I realize how awful I was treated. It's nothing you can even put on paper and it smack you in the face, like, "On August 2nd, Mrs. Soandso said to me, "Hello Tranny Abomination, how are you today?"... the discrimination was shadowy...
veritably unintentional, yet palpable all the same. Hindsight is 20/20 obv, but had I known how apparent the discrimination was, I'd have documented shit I experienced there to the fucking minute. My family said I needed to sue. I feel that I didn't have enough credible evidence for a discrimination suit. Just because I know full goddamn well I was mistreated poorly there due to me being trans, that doesn't mean a judge and/or jury would. Evidence just wasn't strong enough.
I'm like 75% sure I would figure out Vanessa too though. I feel like there's a pretty strong subconscious something that can detect something isn't quite right. Still give me /wierdestboner. I think the only ones that can ever 100% pass are the little soyboy asian dudes and even then only after a ton of money sunk into it. But that's ok, and when talking to my wife even occasionally about FOH shit, I'll refer to Vanessa as she because I respect her for basically being based normal person seemingly
Aye, you just might. This place has jaded all of you I know LoL! But would you really?
Are you sure?
Face pic is as honest a candid as I can give (1 take shot, taken literally 5 minutes ago after I got home from work today), and I have never ever and never will photoshop any pic. That's literally how I look day in and day out, face-wise and body-wise. People at work deal with me as face-to-face as you can get without being intimate... voice, mannerisms, everything. Old men have told me at work, after talking for a bit and after they have gotten a bit comfortable with me, "You're beautiful". I just highly doubt a 60-year old man who knows a tranny is a tranny is going to go out of his way to let them know they're attractive. Mostly old men, yes (nothing to lose really), but sometimes young guys will say flirty things too like, "I usually just know log-ins instead of names but I know yours. It helps that I usually remember the attractive girls". Shit like that. It's genuine man-to-woman compliments, not like... I'm going to humor you as a transgender person and make you feel accepted. I got clocky things about me, yes indeed. Let's say my chin per example. Is it suspect? Yes, IF YOU ALREADY KNOW. But I'm 99% sure to most people, it's just a female with a big chin... see what I mean?
I think of passing as a balancing scale, and you should too... it's a simple way to wrap your head around it. One tray for male, one tray for female. Every single "thing" that people project both physically and psychologically can fit into one of those trays (mostly). Some traits weigh heavier than others... brow bone, nose shape, beard shadow (or lack thereof), voice... that's just face. You have height, proportions, muscle mass... There are literally dozens of important cues that a bunch of people aren't even aware of that gender an individual male or female. We are so adept at gendering people based on those plethora of cues that we do it almost instantaneously without any conscious thought. A female tranny's goal is to move their cues from the male tray to the female tray. An unpassable tranny will have an imbalance of male traits still. A passable tranny will have successfully navigated their cues to the female tray (surgery is a huge boon). Androgynous people will have a balance of both.
So back to my chin. Yeah it fits in the male tray. But there are so many things about me that no longer fit in that male tray, that it doesn't raise enough suspicious I think to make most people go "oh no, that's a trans person, for sure". As long as a person like me is imbalanced enough on the one side that benefits us, the other "cues" that aren't perfect aren't enough to swing the balance into discomfort.
Do I pass? Absolutely. Do I pass flawlessly? Absolutely not. Never will, and I'm okay with that.
I guess the main thing about "passing" is that even if some people can clock you, your quality of life is much, much better if you look reasonably good.
Yep; it's the difference (if you're clocked) between:
"That's sad... don't stare Mildred"
"Damn... impressive"
The thing is, this is just the reality of any human being... far from a trans issue. Cis females who are hot... the world is their oyster. There is scientific evidence that suggests attractive people see the world as being more positive and friendly and ugly people see it as more hostile and chaotic. I don't want to sound too... idk the word... but when you look at the cries of oppression and injustice by SJWs and the correlation of them almost *all* being repulsive physically, it connects a lot of dots, sadly.
Hope you post more
Morrow
! I like you.