A reader confides:
I’m a 41-year-old straight male … who likes to get dressed up in ball-gowns. So I can completely sympathize with those boys and men who get bullied and ridiculed for being feminine. I lived years feeling ashamed about it – pretty much since puberty – and it’s directly related to my sexuality. It’s really only been in the last year that I started to put out feelers with really close friends about it, including my wife, and I finally said “fuck it” after Frozen came out and I decided to “Let it Go”.
The response has been great for the most part, and I’m probably the happiest I’ve ever been. In a way, it’s just another step along accepting the “other” that I think the Internet will continue to encourage. First it was race; then it was homosexuality; now we’re starting to get into transgender, cross-dressing, cross-dreaming. None of these aspects of the human condition harm anyone. It’s only the fear of the unknown that causes the problems.
So many of these prejudices are simply because people are in the closet. Heck, in some cases there are conditions that people aren’t even awared exist (like cross-dreaming, which is the condition of becoming aroused by thinking you’re the other sex). The more people are exposed to the spectrum of human sexuality, the better it’ll be.
The Dish 