tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.comments2024-03-24T13:12:39.210+13:00 Bluestocking <i>Blue</i>Viviennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comBlogger1288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-83508140012635352922024-03-06T17:38:03.109+13:002024-03-06T17:38:03.109+13:00I have to say that I never ever thought I would be...I have to say that I never ever thought I would be passable as a woman, but a great deal of thought and practice (plus a bit of investment in a good wig and some sensible clothes) has brought this dream a lot closer.<br />Going out as a woman is a wonderful experience. I highly recommend it!Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-32871430123490963672024-03-06T17:36:35.630+13:002024-03-06T17:36:35.630+13:00Bonsoir, mon amie! Merci pour ton commentaire.
Je ...Bonsoir, mon amie! Merci pour ton commentaire.<br />Je ne savais pas que le mot francais pour « crossdresser » etait « crossdresser! »<br />C'est une sensation tres agréable de sortir habillée en femme et de parler aux gens dans les magasins et les cafés.<br />Je suis sûr que les gens de ma ville peuvent voir que je ne suis pas une « femme naturelle », mais ils me traitent quand même comme telle.<br />As-tu un site Internet sur lequel tu montres des photos de toi ?<br />Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-29886658095651978422024-03-03T23:07:34.533+13:002024-03-03T23:07:34.533+13:00I would love to be able to appear feminine as well...I would love to be able to appear feminine as well as Emma. She often looks so amazing that I have even doubted that it is really a male Some days f her outfits are gorgeous. I’ve never been public as a woman but would love to do so. I love Emma Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-49829436859164362422024-03-02T02:12:19.055+13:002024-03-02T02:12:19.055+13:00j'aime beaucoup les photos d'Emma ' m...j'aime beaucoup les photos d'Emma ' moi même je suis crosdresser, et je sors dans les rues, habillée et maquillée en fille. au début j'étais un peu timide ,mais au bout de deux ou trois sortie je n'avais plus peur d'être reconnue , ce qui paraissait peu probable. Comme "fille" j'ai pu faire les magasins(principalement pour fille) et partout on me disait mademoiselle ce qui me rendait heureuse .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-45200057408070876962024-02-08T17:47:12.733+13:002024-02-08T17:47:12.733+13:00Thanks so much for your comments Crow. I'm rea...Thanks so much for your comments Crow. I'm really pleased to be a small part of Simon's life and to pay a little tribute to him here on this site.<br />I'm also an enormous David Tennant fan, although I haven't tried to watch absolutely everything he was in! The episode when he played the trans bartender in Rab C Nesbitt stands out in my mind a bit though!Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-37364696440817913272024-02-02T18:17:23.951+13:002024-02-02T18:17:23.951+13:00just wanted to say, thank you for this interview a...just wanted to say, thank you for this interview and for this article. i am currently watching and documenting every david tennant work (yes, i know, this hubris is for some reason what i consider to be "relaxing" or "a hobby") and i really wanted to know more about this show, but couldn't find even a wikipedia on it, and the imdb is worse than half-baked — they haven't even fully combined the batter. to be able to find such a sweet interview with simon with someone who was actually a fan of the show, seeing the work he did within the trans & crossdressing community, and then finding out he passed away only less than a year ago... honestly i'm a bit close to tears right now haha. but thank you for sharing this, so many stories get lost to time and they deserve to be told and archived.crownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-61553036400764442402024-01-23T14:23:53.111+13:002024-01-23T14:23:53.111+13:00I love you too EmmaI love you too EmmaMartin Steptoenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-68470759661390293732024-01-19T12:07:53.919+13:002024-01-19T12:07:53.919+13:00I love you Emma. I wish I could meet and dress tog...I love you Emma. I wish I could meet and dress together and go out. You are beautiful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-64755720130190251182024-01-18T12:51:48.609+13:002024-01-18T12:51:48.609+13:00I love you too Emma. Love your mini skirts
I love you too Emma. Love your mini skirts<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-34232462915478757502023-11-24T19:26:23.082+13:002023-11-24T19:26:23.082+13:00"What's the extra context?" you ask...."What's the extra context?" you ask. If 1819 News, or indeed anyone else, had concrete evidence that Bubba Copeland had committed a crime, especially a sex crime against a child, then the responsible thing to do would be to report him to the police together with all the evidence they had collected. Then they should do nothing until Copeland is in custody. After that, they would be legally free to report their findings.<br /><br />Ah, but that wasn't what they did. Instead, the only solid thing they had to go on was that Copeland liked to cross-dress. They had pretty solid proof of that, so that's what they went with. They were more interested in ruining his reputation than of any sort of justice, and they sprinkled a little icing on the cake with his erotic stories.<br /><br />I am sure that the contents of Copeland's stories are at least questionable, if not downright disturbing. Like I said, I haven't read them. Nonetheless, to draw a line between the contents of the stories to a presumptive accusation of sexual assault is wrong. It even has a name: a fundamental attribution error. It's the same reason people seek to blame violent video games for school shooters. Lots of school shooters play violent video games--but so do 80% of teenage boys. Likewise, lots of crossdressers indulge in erotica, even erotica which the rest of us might find distasteful: it doesn't imply that they have intent to act upon it.<br /><br />"Genuinely: what exculpatory piece of information would have to be missing?" That's not the way the law works! For the moment, unless you're Donald Trump, the way the law works is the presumption of innocence until incriminating evidence is found--not the presumption of guilt until exculpatory evidence is found. Copeland is entitled to that same consideration.<br /><br />I'm interested, though, about Caster Semenya. I have written about her on this blog already (see "Sex and Gender in Sports"). I wasn't aware until now that she has XY chromosomes. I don't believe that either the BBC or the Guardian were "squeamish", or sought to mislead their readership. Instead, they were rightly respecting her privacy about her own body. It's wrong to publish someone's medical information without their consent.Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-10247857346345359562023-11-23T06:40:36.850+13:002023-11-23T06:40:36.850+13:00If these stories and posts had been fabricated fro...If these stories and posts had been fabricated from whole cloth, don’t you think Copeland would have rightly gone on to have a triumphant day in court with an open-and-shut libel case? If not outright fabrication, exactly what do you suspect is the falsehood or lack of honesty in the original reporting? What's the extra context?<br /><br />If you are interested, NPR mentions the allegation ‘that Copeland had used the names and photos of real community members in these posts without their consent’ - without any suggestion that they found it to be false or even suspected it to be so - and, in an otherwise extremely pro-Copeland article, the Daily Beast's Kate Briquelet quotes Ansley Summerlin's reaction to discovering that pictures of her were being disseminated pornographically and originating from Copeland. Another anonymous woman whose real name he used in his erotica is also quoted in the Daily Beast. So, given the victims have spoken about being presented with the evidence, we can be certain those violations were real and the evidence exists. <br /><br />Given that - what would be the need to create an extra infraction, of the young people's images being repurposed for the 'become the whore' meme? Everything confirmed was salacious enough, if salaciousness is what 1819 was after. They had their story. They didn’t need to invent anything else to fit their agenda, because what Copeland wrote about Ansley Summerlin and other women in his community was, quite frankly, bad enough. I feel quite comfortable condemning that behaviour even if no mainstream outlet independently confirms the veracity of the 'become the whore' meme.<br /><br />As for why more broadsheets haven’t independently verified or focused more strongly on those elements - let's consider a different story. Until this year, it was virtually impossible to find a mainstream media outlet acknowledging Caster Semenya’s biological maleness and XY chromosomes. The BBC, Guardian, everywhere, hid for years behind the disingenuous and misleading language of ‘women with naturally high testosterone’. The truth was out there for anyone to find; the recent rulings banning Semenya from athletic participation explicitly only applied to XY athletes, and would not have applied to a Semenya with XX chromosomes and naturally high testosterone. But until Semenya’s autobiography this year, which confirms the athlete's XY chromosomes, most mainstream outlets were simply - I can only assume - too squeamish to report the issue accurately. It shocked me greatly, as a left-wing individual, to see otherwise respectable papers skirting the truth in this way.<br /><br />All this is to say - I'm well aware of how news sources can be evasive to the point of misreporting. And of course it's important to be mindful of the reputability of certain sources. But news outlets don’t tend to outright lie. They will slant the truth, just as the Guardian and others slanted their coverage of Semenya to avoid unpalatable truths. But I struggle to think of any way in which Copeland's actions could have been taken out of context or have been excusable. Genuinely: what exculpatory piece of information would have to be missing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-25754044022500995612023-11-22T20:36:48.140+13:002023-11-22T20:36:48.140+13:00Thanks for posting this comment.
I must say I didn...Thanks for posting this comment.<br />I must say I didn't read any of Copeland's transgender fiction.<br />I don't particularly trust 1819 News to report on the contents of that fiction with honesty or integrity.<br />I'm prepared to believe that Copeland's own description of his activities was a futile attempt to cast himself in the best possible light; the truth is likely to be a little less lilywhite.<br />While news of Copeland's suicide spread widely, no mainstream news outlet has run any content about Copeland publishing pictures of children from his community in a fetishised context. To me, it would be easy to verify such claims, and this is low-hanging fruit from a journalistic perspective. The fact that this hasn't been done by any reputable news outlet strongly suggests to me that they have all dismissed these claims as false or unverifiable.Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-79411440470707836882023-11-22T07:03:42.967+13:002023-11-22T07:03:42.967+13:00I'm amazed that you have studiously avoided me...I'm amazed that you have studiously avoided mentioning how Bubba Copeland's 'erotic transgender fiction' was actually highly disturbing snuff fiction about women in his community that he envied. He wrote stories about wanting to murder one of these women and usurp her identity - *using her real name and real business name in this story*. He took the online last name, 'Summerlin', from another woman he was obsessed with, and used photos of her as part of his erotica posts - leading to images of her being disseminated onto other porn sites. He also posted pictures of a brother and sister in his community, one of whom was a minor, as part of images fetishistically encouraging transitioning from a boy into a 'whore' (giving the impression the brother had transitioned into the sister). Those are the victims to whom the condolence message refers. Just because he didn't act out any of these fantasies (including, let's remind ourselves, of murder and identity theft of female members of his community) in real life doesn't mean the way he pursued them online wasn't harmful to the real people whose privacy and dignity he was so quick to disregard - while of course being desperate to retain his own privacy and dignity when it all came out. Finding out pictures of you have been appropriated into pornographic contexts and onto porn sites is an utterly devastating violation for a woman - and of course anyone committing that kind of violation should be exposed, especially if they are styling themselves as pillars of the community.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-62551351622573551362023-11-13T03:06:30.382+13:002023-11-13T03:06:30.382+13:00Sorry, I hadn't meant Lucy's story as a co...Sorry, I hadn't meant Lucy's story as a correction or suchlike. More that certain aspects of the media have prior, so to speak. Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-25446281545565520952023-11-12T11:10:39.284+13:002023-11-12T11:10:39.284+13:00Thanks for this comment Lynn. I hadn't heard a...Thanks for this comment Lynn. I hadn't heard about Lucy Meadows. I shall append her details to this article.Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-74115505272235772362023-11-11T06:55:58.916+13:002023-11-11T06:55:58.916+13:00What can you say when faced with that tragedy? Tho...What can you say when faced with that tragedy? Those who are left are suffering and to say Bubba was, feels like a massive understatement, bless him.<br /><br />I remember a similar story in the UK, where young teacher - Lucy Meadows - took their own life, after being pursued by the press for being trans and a primary school teacher.Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-87855834284462593172023-10-28T19:02:07.636+13:002023-10-28T19:02:07.636+13:00Also want to know what the piano track is Also want to know what the piano track is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-35486488487094250612023-08-31T21:06:26.787+12:002023-08-31T21:06:26.787+12:00Thanks for posting your comments.
One thing I'...Thanks for posting your comments.<br />One thing I'm increasingly coming to realise is that we only have one life, to live as best we can. If getting your nails done gives you pleasure, who gives a hoot what other people think?<br />You don't need to wonder if you can "get away with" wearing long nails. Don't go to some other city--book yourself into a nail salon in your OWN city and get the nails. If it works for you, then carry on! If for whatever reason it doesn't work out, then you've literally lost nothing except a bit of money and inconvenience.<br />But what's the worst that can happen? Maybe a mean comment or two? Just laugh them off!Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-18903848293447696982023-08-31T00:50:54.092+12:002023-08-31T00:50:54.092+12:00I'm an occasional crossdresser in my late 60&#...I'm an occasional crossdresser in my late 60's. I've always loved the look of long (half to three quarters inches) nails, especially when painted a deep fuchisa. A lot of times though I don't bother with nails if I'm just going out to run a few errands. But I fantasize about getting acrylic nails and wonder if I could get away with someday wearing long nails all the time in my old age. My hands are already on the feminine looking side because even in male mode I wear 1 or 2 girly looking sterling silver rings and up to 15 shiny sterling silver bangle bracelets that appear very feminine. Added to that they slide around on my arm and make lots of clinking noises when I move my arm. I can imagine that people would take even more notice if I added long nails to that. But I imagine people probably already have formed their opinion of me from my jewelry so maybe the nails wouldn't change their opinion much more. Perhaps I should just experiment with 24/7 nails sometime, go visit a city where no one knows me and get some acrylics as an experiment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-58328123622753772602023-08-27T15:55:41.602+12:002023-08-27T15:55:41.602+12:00I must say I was a little taken aback when Piper p...I must say I was a little taken aback when Piper produced a 1 litre bottle of isopropyl alcohol! However, it's much cheaper to buy it in bulk, if you're going to use it regularly (as she does).<br />I found scrubbing really hard with a facial wipe was enough to get the glue off, although if it's very stubborn then the alcohol will do the job (just don't get it in your eyes!).<br />I've also not experimented with contouring, and I think this has perhaps encouraged me to try, although I'd be going for a much more subtle effect I suppose, aiming to narrow my nose and my (quite round) face.Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-21140843945024553182023-08-27T02:42:10.020+12:002023-08-27T02:42:10.020+12:00Well, you didn't sashay away from the challeng...Well, you didn't sashay away from the challenge 😉<br /><br />In with you on that it's a really theatrical look. I'm slightly surprised how much drag makeup has gone in to the mainstream. The colours, contouring, etc. On watching tutorials and 'getting painted', oh my! The number of layers.. and that's before you get to four pairs to tights to help hide your pads! 😁<br /><br />Sounds like a great experience, though. I'm curious about the brow glue and how easy that is to remove. Ideally without losing ones brows. That's always put me off trying it.Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-13490866902950781282023-08-11T08:46:32.530+12:002023-08-11T08:46:32.530+12:00Rest in peace, Simon. Thank you for the many laug...Rest in peace, Simon. Thank you for the many laughs.Stephennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-77693203712767426732023-08-04T08:57:18.086+12:002023-08-04T08:57:18.086+12:00This is why I love reading your views on all thing...This is why I love reading your views on all things gender. You don't entrench yourself in the "all-or-nothing" mindset where if you question even the most trivial aspect of a worldview you're guilty of genocide (don't even get me started about the growing trend to throw that term around at the slightest offence).<br />Ralphhttps://ralphinadress.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-53722870755993592662023-06-21T10:55:06.681+12:002023-06-21T10:55:06.681+12:00I love you Emma, I have been a transvestite since ...I love you Emma, I have been a transvestite since early teens. You are beautiful.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-52277176070110998312023-06-05T08:41:37.860+12:002023-06-05T08:41:37.860+12:00Protesters & supporters alike all fell into Pa...Protesters & supporters alike all fell into Parker’s carefully laid trap. She got exactly what she came for, publicity. But, couldn’t have been that indelible as I’d pretty much forgotten all about her & her antics. Lillian Uptonnoreply@blogger.com