Since the start of Esprit I’ve spent more than half of the time as Vanessa. I’ve gone out, gone shopping, met people and generally just carried on about the business of life as a woman every other week. Yet in a few weeks this will change. I start my new job soon, and my time en femme will become much more limited – at least until I go full time, which is still a 9-12 months away.
This got me thinking, what does it mean to live “part time” as a woman? Are there a certain number of days each week you need to spend en femme to qualify as a part time woman? Or does it have to do more with the nature of the time you spend as a woman?
Is it the case that the part time woman does things a woman would normally do, while a “non part time woman” is limited to only certain activities – perhaps only ever presenting in the safety of her home?
I wonder whether it could be the slow separation of your life into two parts – where certain people only know you as a woman, and you only attend certain activities as a woman. Perhaps your electrologist and fellow book club attendees only every see your femme side, and in this respect you’re part time.
Or does part time imply a direction – on the way from “no time woman” to “full time woman”, so being part time is defined more by your direction towards a destination than where you are at the moment.
I’m not really hung up on labels, and I would describe myself as a part time woman even when I’m no longer able to present as such every second week. But I am interested in how you would describe a part time woman. Take a moment to answer the poll below and let me know 
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I don’t feel it is a matter of being full/part time. It is more of a quality time. I can have quality time at home or out and about. I feel it it is the comfort zone you are in at the time. For instance I like football, attend games, and usually only partially dressed (under things), but if I am out for the evening (dinner/ shopping) then I am fully en femme.
I think the situation dictates these decisions.
If dressing is the only gauge i am truley part time. Mentally I am a part time male because I feel I have to play the role I present.
Women come in many varieties — in their shapes, in their sizes, in their styles, and so very much on and so forth. Is a genetic woman not a woman anymore if she's wearing canvas pants, a t-shirt, and a ball cap, holding a shovel, and digging in the back yard garden? I'm a genetic woman and I'll tell you that I'd still feel like a woman. If you feel like a woman no matter what you're wearing, then you're a woman no matter what you're wearing, period. It's for YOU to feel, not for onlookers to decide.
And maybe it's not binary. Maybe you feel differing proportions of each at different times.
I guess this is my very long-winded way of saying, clothes may make the man, but they don't make the woman.
-D
I think you needed some background music cresting to a crescendo as you finished your comment love. Very well said!
Amen to that
Strange Nurse I solute you, well said
As much as I would love to tell you that I am a woman inside,I know that I am not.I am of the third gender..a blender,I guess. Since early childhood,I have had a serious interest in wearing "girl clothes" as well as more than a casual interest in makeup.I dress everyday,even if not going anywhere out.However,I skip most makeup when staying home…I truly wear "boy clothes" only to do my manly work[for myself.]I rollerblade in fem mode,almost daily..sort of a release for me. BUT,I KNOW THAT I DON"T HAVE ALL OF A WOMAN'S FEELINGS ABOUT LIFE,and never will. I have proven that through observing my wife and daughter and realizing that they are different from me.Our common grounds are clothes and makeup.For me,that is as good as it gets..The world expects me to be a worthy male,I can't change that!
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