My response to cross dressing

Quite.

Interesting the OP refers to it as cross dressing showing that he knows full well what he is doing is deliberately wearing the clothes he associates with the opposite sex, otherwise it would just be dressing.

I agree with you wear what you like as long as it is appropriate and within the bounds of decency according to the occasion it is being worn for.

People who wear outlandish, different, inappropriate clothing do it because they want to be noticed, they want the attention, to then have the audacity to moan or whinge when they get said attention is just ridiculous.

Wear your lacy slips and petticoats to your hearts content @manpretty but make sure whilst wearing them you access the spaces and services for your sex, your style of dress does not alter your sex and don't try and force your belief on women that these items of clothing are somehow clothes that women should be wearing. Leave us alone.

I think i prefer the gingham pinny.

I don't mind anyone wearing what the heck they like as long as it is decent and not part of a display whereby they are making people be unwilling participants in a fetish. Therefore I find it a bit disingenuous that a male would try to compare women wearing mannish clothing (whatever!) with men wearing feminine clothing; because we all know which sex are more likely to be doing this because it is a fetish and it ain't females.

A hedgehog...in leggings....in yesterday's heat?

Photos or it didn't happen.

I'm SHOCKED I tell you, SHOCKED !

It's no good - I saw it. She dunnit! It was Hedgehogforshort, in the weird thread, with the Tunnocks!

(That explains the Highlights and Notes annotation very nicely - my AI fail is, in fact, a piece of Very Serious Evidence from the Very Serious Evidence Room set up after that awful gerbil teacake smuggling ring was broken up...)

@Catiette OH FUCKITTY FUCK FUCK, i have been erm framed !!!!

If nothing else @Catiette has proved beyond doubt who eats my Tunnock's when I'm not looking!

Still a bit earnest, though. Apparently, for the keen of eye and more studiously inclined, there's even a space for highlights and notes above! 😃

Or not! Definitely making up for my earlier earnest reply now with irrelevant stuff! 😂

Cropped hedgehog.

PREENS

Doh! Did a better hog and can't upload her. Which actually leads to another question...

Sometimes I try to upload one, but the image name is greyed out, which I can't work out or get around. It's an Apple Mac. Is there a simple answer?

Sorry to now shift things into tech. advice requests! Thank you, all.

I visited Clonakilty last year in our grand tour of Ireland. Can confirm it's a lovely wee place with delicious food 😄

I had to google Letterbox. I have much to learn. But...

Yes, I tend to crop to reduce the size. Gemini routinely breached the limit when it was producing square images but now they're letterbox I don't usually have a problem.

OK, thanks! Cropping is clever.

Usually my Co Pilot AI images are about 2/3 mb at most. Occasionally when I've faffed I'll end up with a 6 mb plus file so I'll either screenshot it or crop a bit off the sides of the image to try to reduce the file size.

I'm quite proud of her!

I had to use fewer pixels, though, because the few times I've actually created an AI image that's even close to being worthy of the standard set in the Bluestocking, I've not been able to upload it.

They all end up being well beyond the 6mb I'm apparently allowed. Is everyone limited like this?

Tips welcome...

I love your Tunnock’s eating hedgehog!

I keep seeing the thread title and assuming it’s a woman venting her frustration at the grubby and defiant looking men who are generally the most visible of the cross dressers. I invariably move away because they make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I’m incredibly fortunate never to have met one in an enclosed space.

Then I remember the OP and sigh, because this isn’t a thread for disgruntled women, but instead, it’s a man, moaning about us.

Fortunately, the vipers always make up for any disappointment!

It's not bloody sensitive, it's cute and feminist-themed! 🙄 The irony...

ETA: Ah, there she is. Appeared now.

Oh heck, have I derailed the derailing?

Quick, post something about hedgehogs and food...

MRA: You wanted access to our gentlemen's clubs etc., so why are you being hypocrites when we want access to your toilets etc.?

GC Feminist: Er, there's a teeny difference between

• spaces for men excluding women (had the vote for less than 100 years) from political networking and power brokering
• spaces for women excluding men (responsible for 98%+ of sexual assaults) from opportunities for predation?

MRA: You wanted to wear trousers etc., so why are you being hypocrites when we want to wear "chiffon", "lace" and "a full slip" (interesting choices, OP)?

GC Feminist: Er, there's a teeny difference between

• women (excluded from parts of the workforce for most of this century on the basis of their "femininity") wanting practical clothes which give them freedom of movement and aren't sexualised
• men (with a history of mocking women in drag and much higher tendency towards fetish) wanting pleasurable clothes which mimic women's oppression and are more sexualised

Or, in short...

MRA: I don't understand the difference between equality and equity or I'm pretending not to.

GC Feminist: Yeah, we didn't want to say it this directly, but your argument's a little... embarrassing?

I thought the Beaumont Society (much in the news in the 1970's - for middle-aged cross-dressing men and their wives, whom they strongly resembled - 1970's fashion eh?).
But no! They are still out there - now branded for transgender people.
AFAIR they were one of the groups that lobbied Stonewall to be added to the LGB back in 2014.

First I thought of a joke, but actually that’s a really interesting read, thanks.