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Subject: The Girl in the Mirror Author: Mocha1120 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 23:25:31 03/08/11 Tue Wes A great story and a roller coaster ride through the life of people who have a lot of drama in their lives although they do not really want it. Being a bisexual with both a husband and a wife sometimes causes me problems, but nothing like the problems of the only transsexual I know or the only drag queen I know. The trans is a male to female and she has had a rough life. The drag queen seems to be impervious to anything, but I suspect that under the hard exterior she/he hurts a lot at times. The one thing I always try to do is treat the transsexual as a woman. She has given up entirely too much for me to not respect her desire to be treated as the woman she is; not as a man in drag. Some day she wants to find a good man get married, settle down, and raise a family. Personally I think she will make a very good mother. With the drag queen I treat him/her as one or the other based on how she/he is dressed. When he walks into church wearing slacks and a dress shirt I treat him as a man. When he is wearing a slinky ball gown, makeup, and teased up hair I treat her as a woman. I live in Texas so big hair is still queen for a lot of women. Mocha [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: The Girl in the Mirror Author: Hal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:08:41 03/09/11 Wed Mocha, it sounds like you are doing the right things with your friends, and I wish you success in your own life and relationships. This is a whole subject that I have never had a clue about and it has been _very_ educational. I have found many of Wes's novels to be intense, but none more so than this story about Eve. Wes, I really appreciate the trip!

[> [> Subject: Re: The Girl in the Mirror Author: JoeinMD [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:51:04 03/11/11 Fri Wes One picky to an otherwise great story. Anyone who went or goes to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute calls the school RPI or the 'Tute. Never, EVER Poly.

[> [> [> Subject: Re: The Girl in the Mirror Author: Wes [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:50:01 03/11/11 Fri >One picky to an otherwise great story. Anyone who >went or goes to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute calls >the school RPI or the 'Tute. Never, EVER Poly. Glad to know that. It allows me to make a change in a future story! -- Wes

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: The Girl in the Mirror Author: Joe [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:32:53 03/14/11 Mon The "Tute Screw" was a concept from the late 70's. The scew had douple helexs. No mater which way you turned the screw it only went in. Not something you could make but an interesting idea. http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute It looks like the "Tute Screw" is still alive and well. Joe >>One picky to an otherwise great story. Anyone who >>went or goes to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute calls >>the school RPI or the 'Tute. Never, EVER Poly. > >Glad to know that. It allows me to make a change in a >future story! > >-- Wes

[> Subject: Re: The Girl in the Mirror Author: byte mangler [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:56:24 03/11/11 Fri There's a loose end that cropped up in GM02 that never was revisited. Eve observed: >long after the transition was complete, I learned something that would have made it easier had I known it at the time, and it may help you. Very simply, I have a better claim on being a female than I had on being a male. I don't mean physically or culturally or psychologically, I mean genetically." and it went on to the effect that there was some genetic issue. I had been looking forward to a revisit to this topic, but I guess that the discussion in chapter 2 didn't need amplification.