WeakMincingSissy wrote:Uh, I thank you for your kind words and you are clearly a man of empathy. However I must tell you that there is no need for such supportive consolation with regard to my writings. I can assure you that I am extremely to the utmost secure in myself and comfortable with who (and 'what') I am. By the same token that your username is "Fatman" which others mat perceive as derogatory I selected my username intentionally because I LIKE IT. You see, this may be a tad difficult for you or others to relate to but I like it exactly BECAUSE it is as it exactly is. Please do not spoil my enjoyment and delight in how I write of myself and my choice of username.
Cool!!!
I think transvestites are cool. I have known a few transvestites and I think they're fun people. I remember years ago I liked to watch M*A*S*H on TV, and my favorite character on the show was Corporal Kinger, the Arab guy from Toledo Ohio who wore dresses. He was drafted into the army during the Korean war and was trying to get himself out of the army under a Section 8 "nutso" discharge.
Actually, he was the sanest person there in the whole outfit, the M*A*S*H Unit 4077, because no person in his right mind would like going to war, unlike Major Frank Burns who was a super patriot. Major Frank Burns was the real nut case, because he loved war. Corporal Klinger, who wore dresses, he was perfectly sane, because he was trying to get out of an insane war.
That's probably why the army refused to discharge him, because, being perfectly sane, he would not qualify for a Section 8 discharge anyway, even if he wore dresses. They knew he wasn't nuts, and that wearing dresses was only a dodge. Of course, he was a good soldier and performed his duties on time and followed orders, which was another reason why the army would not grant him a Section 8 discharge for wearing dresses. He was too good of a soldier and he even made Staff Sargent.
I'm 59 years old, so I turned 18 during the Viet Nam War. Of course, I didn't qualify for the draft, anyway because I was about 120 pounds overweight and, as I had mentioned previously, I had spent 3 weeks in a psychiatric ward when I was 17, so I was happy that I was in no danger of getting drafted.
But if I had been drafted, I think that I would probably have tried doing a "Klinger" number myself to get a Section 8 discharge, which by the way, is not a dishonorable discharge, but only a medical discharge for being crazy.
So, wearing dresses to get out of a war, does not make one crazy. It actually indicates one is perfectly sane. That's why Klinger's dress dodge didn't work for him. Instead, he got promoted!
Also, he had dated a few women while in the army , and many of the women he dated actually liked it when Klinger wore a dress, because they thought he was outrageous and a refreshing break from all the mindless conformity one usually sees in the military. So, some women were actually attracted to him because he wore dresses.
Of course M*A*S*H was only a TV show, so I don't know how it would work out in a real life situation.
Anyway . . . . . .
I choose the user name Fat Man in these forums, because, well, I actually like being a Fat Man. I was 13 years old when I started gaining a lot of weight, and became overweight during my teenage years, and I actually liked it.
My mother tried to get me to lose weight, but it didn't work out. Also, I have NEVER initiated a weight loss diet on my own. It was usually forced on me, and I had always sabotaged every attempt by people to get me to lose weight.
The photo you see of myself in my avatar, that was taken back in April 2007 when I weighed about 370 pounds. I now weigh about 400 pounds I'm proud to say.
I like being a large person, and I have become much larger than anyone who has ever bullied me around while I was growing up (and out) and going to school. I stopped growing at the age of 15 at 5 feet 7 inches, that is, vertical growth stopped while horizontal growth continued. I have recently lost an inch off my height, which usually happens as we get older, so now, I'm 5 feet 6 inches instead.
When I was 13 years old, in Junior High School, I once dated an older girl who was 14, and she was fat. But I thought she was pretty, and I liked her because she was very intelligent, much smarter than most students her age.
Unfortunately, I was harassed by the other guys in my school because I was dating a fat girl. We were both harassed until we had to break up.
Needless to say, I never dated ever again when I was in school.
Yeah, more mindless conformity being imposed on us by society!
When I was a teenager, while all the other guys were looking at the skinny chicks at the pool or on the beach, I was checking out the fat chicks, because to me, I think chubby gals are more attractive, as least, they are to me.
So, I guess I have a fat fetish.
Anyway . . . . .
We are what we are.
OR as Popeye would always say . . .
I YAM WHAT I YAM, AND THAT'S ALL THAT I YAM!!!