September 3, 2023
"Leaning back slowly in my chair, I pictured myself as my lover, a cisgender man, talking to a woman dressed to receive him as I always have: pretty dress, light makeup, underwear off as a little surprise."
"It was taxing, this switch of roles, a kind of spiritual gymnastics. But the expansion in my body felt great — the open legs, arms and gestures — suggesting how much I usually compressed myself."
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Whatever.
As predicted in the comments months ago albeit in the form of a question.
Cisgender as in sane sexual? Trans/homosexual?
Clothes do not make the man.
Chesterton's panties.
Would this not make her a drag king?
How can a woman be a drag queen?
John Henry
Thanks for sharing, Maxine.
How utterly exhausting her life seems.
But, that is why they make chocolate and vanilla.
Toxic boredom.
"dressed to receive him as I always have: pretty dress, light makeup, underwear off as a little surprise."
To "receive" him, right.
"suggesting how much I usually compressed myself."
WTF? She never spread her arms and legs? I call BS.
"Tired of being deferential to men in my relationships"
Seduction and foreplay = "deference"?
Gentlemen! Remember the hot/crazy/writer matrix.
Columns don't fill themselves.
Notes from Underground, 2023.
You go gurl!
Shall we take the imaginings of a person unexperienced with subject as an important contribution to understanding the subject? Or shall we give greater weight to the experience of reality? While the Aristotelian method has its advantages, such as being able to just make stuff up and pass it off as valid, reality generally triumphs over the long term.
Give me a woman who can be non-deferential than men as a woman, if at all possible, not an ersatz Chad. In my experience, real women also smell better than Cad cosplayers.
She still can't think structurally. That's the chief sex difference, structure vs feelings.
Maxine, having exhausted possibilities in all other worthwhile ways to contribute to the greater good, or to her own potential to advance herself, decides to sign up for the drag king workshop. Wants to imitate her lover, a "cisgender man."
How many woke points does Maxine get?
1. Uses "cisgender" to score a wokie, and at the same time make sure no one considers her to be on the other team. Vocab points.
2. Confirms that she's in her forties, and single. Like Obama's 'Julia,' the ultimate needy unmarried woman whose lefty-leanings are as predictable as her lifelong reliance on Govt. as her sugar-daddy. Leech points.
3. Says there is "so much I still wanted to accomplish in my life" and yet invests her time in learning to become gender-fluid. Wise choice, Maxine, wise choice! Such an accomplishment! Gender-bender points.
4. Her lover is Black. Points for race, extra points for capitalizing the word.
5. In the end, ditches him for a date with her/him/dress-up/self. Psycho points.
6. Writes a 'tell-all' for the NYT! Double-extra points.
Ugh!
"I got the porkchops, she got the pie"
I remember when one could read the NY Times and not see a single mention of sexual activity.
Just because you've got a kink or a fetish, doesn't mean you need to broadcast it to the entire planet.
I'm out.
'I remember when one could read the NY Times and not see a single mention of sexual activity.'
I remember the same about elementary school...
"I decided to create my own drag king persona" (NYT)."
Cosplay. It's in all the papers.
Chicken or egg? Does the MSM lead or reflect the destruction of the country?
All dressed up and can't get a date.
Frankly, my dear. I don’t give a damn. Being a gay person is no longer a big deal. It’s your problem. Not ours.
tear off my clothes and wrap the athletic tape around my breasts, crushing them down.
Mental illness abounds.
- Krumhorn
Mascuninity? Feminility?
Ball of confusion.
rhhardin said...
She still can't think structurally. That's the chief sex difference, structure vs feelings.
After this, any snark I could produce would be irrelevant…
Underwear off???
Hell!! That's my job!!
I know this is just me, but I find reading snippets like Maxine's to be tedious. An endless succession of needs and buts, so to speak.
I don't see anything remotely controversial about Maxine Swann creating her own drag king persona, except of course to narrow-minded lesbophobic manspreading misogynists who might find the grip on their own manhood threatened by her woman-spreading I personally find her "spiritual gymnastics" familiar, since I have at times been an ultra-feminine peeking-out-of-the-closet-queen who liked dating lipstick lesbians - who in turn often also dated butch women bordering on being drag kings. The interactions were very interesting.
I probably should not surprised, however, if there have been baked noodles in some (red) necks of the woods along the way.
This entire article is comically fake. But I bet it gets more hits than any of the NYTs breathless exposes about Russia Collusion. Not as many fake Pulitzers, sadly.
“"dressed to receive him as I always have: pretty dress, light makeup, underwear off as a little surprise."
If it’s what you “always” do, what’s the “surprise “?
At what point will the public tire of reading about the adventures of the sexually degenerate? There are only so many permutations of sexual identity that one can conjure up, right? I mean, if you start with the two normal sexes, how many times can one come up with something new? The math suggests the answer is rather small. I suppose, however that the soi-disant "editors" at rags like the NYT have any abnormally high interest in that subject matter, so they continue to publish such tripe as this to titillate themselves while simultaneously trying to strike yet another blow at les bourgeoisie whom they fancy themselves to be so far above. Of course, I am actually surprised that they have not, as yet, introduced topics like coprophilia and necrophilia. Wait--what's that you say? They already have? I must have missed it.
"I personally find her "spiritual gymnastics" familiar, since I have at times been an ultra-feminine peeking-out-of-the-closet-queen who liked dating lipstick lesbians - who in turn often also dated butch women bordering on being drag kings."
Titus, is that you?
- Rafe
“Acting like a man” sounds like heresy, if I was acting like a trans theologian.
I bet her version of manhood is every bit as good as Dylan Mulvaney's version of womanhood.
Who cares about the "surprise".
The writers of pieces like this for the New York Times have a rich fantasy life, and I suppose that's okay. Every now and then little boys dream of being the King of England, and who is to say that that is a bad thing.
But there's a different and larger problem at the NYT. Their "news" writers--aka Journolists--are also exhibiting signs of a robust fantasy life in their writing about the political goings on of the day. I can tolerate sexual fantasies, not my cup of tea, but I don't have to join the play. I find it difficult to tolerate political fantasies. Which is why I appreciate our host taking on the onerous task of reading the NYT each day. In the memorable phrase of Joe Willie Namath, "Better her than me."
anybody who hasn't read it, should read Robert A Heinlein: The Year of the Jackpot
If you think it's Not relevant to this year.. Read the wikipedia article on it
The story touches on recurrent Heinlein themes of survivalism and the prudishness of social mores of the time.
cause, Yeah; the story is about the prudishness of of 1952..Yep! THAT is what the story is about
Personally, i'm kinda worried about sunspots now
Kids Books
If it’s what you “always” do, what’s the “surprise “?
I presume it was a different man each time.
"dressed to receive him as I always have: pretty dress, light makeup, underwear off as a little surprise."
If it’s what you “always” do, what’s the “surprise “?
The little body painted sign on her thigh that reads “Eat at Joe’s” with an arrow pointing north.
Transfatigue - there I have coined a new word.
"I have at times been an ultra-feminine peeking-out-of-the-closet queen who liked dating lipstick lesbians"
Who among us . . . ?
Hemingway wrote a novel called Garden of Eden where the man’s new bride springs the whole, “I am really a boy” thing on him. They get matching haircuts, it’s all very modern. Surprised they haven’t done a movie. This excerpt kind of reminds me of it.
… if you meet him w/out panties as your special little surprise too often- it ceases to be exactly that.
I’ve never talked about sex w/my Mom or friends- only w/my husband. Usually w/out words.
Not that I’m inhibited. I’m a nice girl, is all.
Be best :0)
another story about ME ME ME.
my take? Grow up lady.
I looked up her photo. To her credit, she does have a strong jaw line. The guy doesn’t care how she dresses. In the end, he still gets her feminine charms. At least until she decides she wants to try pegging. Then he might have to think long and hard about it.
Leaning back slowly in my chair, I pictured myself as myself, a cisgender man, typing a post to the internet dressed as I always have: in a bathrobe, in my underwear, no surprise.
It was taxing, this typing of words, a kind of spiritual gymnastics. But once I hit 'Send' and stretched, the expansion in my body felt great — the open legs, arms and gestures — suggesting how much I usually just hunched over the keyboard.
This is obviously a severe case of Toxic Femininity.
This is why I could never enjoy Camille Paglia: a pathetic waste of a good wit who could never admit she was reinforcing the very "patriarchal and race norms" she imagined she was challenging by turning herself into a clown show.
These people have problems
So... somebody discovered Lou Reed and took a walk on the wild side.
From fifty years ago!
Trendy.
Wherever you go, there you are.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing a lot by not reading the NYT.......and then I see this.
Plaid pants. Snakeskin boots. Adjust the package.
This was the man I wanted to see tonight.
Tacky autoandrophilia.
Gilbar, does Wikipedia really say that about "Jackpot"? Pathetic, but Wikipedia is reliably wrong about most things more subtle than 1+1.
Which reminds me, Paul Krugman recently eructed a statement on the coming dangers of AI technology.
So we can all relax now.
She doesn’t mention one very important part of being a man. The constant threat of aggression. Every time I encounter a strange man my first thought is: can I take him down and how, if I have to. Every time I enter a room I scan for objects that can be used as weapons. I didn’t even realize I was doing this until I heard Scott Adams suggesting that the constant threat of male aggression is what keeps the order.
Instead of a drag king persona, how about just acting in ways you feel are most comfortable?
Or must everything be wedged into the "progressive" box of the week. Gawd help us.
Have there ever been so many deeply unhappy people?
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