Does crossdressing make you more aware of women’s issues?

I never thought of my crossdressing doing that. I think it comes from my abusive father. Watching what he did to my mom and us kids.

Seeing it first hand made me awhere.

Hippie

Having 2 daughters, now 45 & 50 y.o., I have always been aware of women's rights. I have also trained many women doctors. I have also employe many women in different economic phases.

All of these situations and life conditions have heightened my awearness.

Dr. T.J.

CD has made me more aware of the significant time per day for cosmetics and for maintaining a presentable appearance, a time penalty that men do not incur and rarely even notice.
For other reasons I have learned about the significant time that wives spend at cooking, which is fun but again consumes time for an activity that husbands are free of.
With a wheelchair-bound relative a more startling lesson than anything from CD is the terribly difficult life of a disabled person, even in progressive California. Modern women don't need doors opened but anyone in a wheelchair or with a walker certainly does, and they can use help with even little items like getting a cup of coffee.

Jennifer

Another good question and poll.

Like Alexis mentioned, the considerable amount of time women put into their beauty routine.

Hence why a man should never stand up his date!  Seriously - shower, shaving, moisturizing, outfit planning, makeup, hair, nails, etc.

Do not make a woman go thru all that to stand her up, its definitely the quickest way to nowhere!   If she's at a bar...she's calling up her best girlfriend, "I was stood up! Come drink with me!" And they will shop for your replacement!  LOL!!

You better have a hospital bracelet as a souvenir...she might give you a second chance! LOL!!

I've also noticed how men treat women.  Even though CD, at a gay bar I'm assumed Trans, and the gay men can be just as piggish and rude as the regular ones.  I was taught by my parents to be a gentleman, and now I see why more than ever!

XO Robyn 💃🤗

I, too, was taught to be a gentleman, and I similarly taught my son. (And taught my daughter to demand it). We could use a dose of that stuff these days.

As for “women’s issues,” I’m sure I define that differently than say, feminists would. A LOT differently.

Oh I totally agree.

Some of the men these days need to be escorted out behind the barn for a good...mmm...lecture!!

Yeah lecture...thats it!!  LOL!!

XO Robyn 😉❤️

Hi Jennifer,

I'm going to be contrary here I'm afraid.

I've always been sympathetic and supportive of women's rights even if I couldn't articulate it at times, or missed glaringly obvious examples of discrimination. It all came into focus when I met and then married my wife who was a feminist. She was determined that her two young daughters would grow up free of the issues she had to rail against as she was growing up, and I had no problem with that.

Did CD help me reach this position? - I'm not sure. For me, at that time I treated my occasional and low level CD'ing as an irritation or an itch to scratch and then forget about.

Did my ideal of equality of the sexes make me more amenable to CDing? - maybe, but again I'm not sure.

Or was it all part of a bigger picture ?

Apologies, if this is a bit political - I seem to have gone off on one.

Marti x

Lisa... I couldn’t have said it better!

I’ve been aware or the glaring inequality since years ago! I absolutely hate the toxic masculinity that pervades the world!
What is it with men... feeling threatened by their equals in everything and better at childbirth! WTF!

I’m so saddened by the shortsightedness of men... what are men so scared of? Answer me that?!

Pissed Polly

Hi Jennifer...

Being Polly has had no effect on how I see and value women. I have felt that for so long as a man that it’s not funny!
All my life I have regarded women as my equals! Some better, some worse...
Intellectually the same, better at some sport worse at others... best at children things but sometimes the pits!
They have always been my equals... always will be... especially, now that I am one of them!

Polly xxx

Being married has totally heightened my awareness of pretty much all the issues listed.

Especially being married to a lawyer.

CDing has given me first hand insights into a few of the issues, but certainly, I've always thought that men have been behind a lot of them, and now I have experienced a few examples, I know it.

Makes me feel proud to be a CD, and not a macho man.

Love Laura

My crossdressing hasn't changed my perspective on women's issues really, perhaps I am a bit more sympathetic towards said issues as a result of having my feminine side push my male side into the closet from time to time. But when I looked at the list I felt that I had become familiar with all of them through seeing and hearing about them in the media and not specifically via crossdressing so I will have to pass on the vote I'm afraid.

Diana.

My early times as a CD made me aware of how vunerable it felt to be walking about after dark as a woman, every time a man approached or followed me was terrifying. Imagine having to worry  7 days a week?

I then discovered daylight and have never looked back since. 🙂

I said other for I did not completely under stand the question?  not to sound dumb

I believe that being the only boy in the apartments and house we lived in growing up made me aware of some of the issues facing both adult and younger women.  From just simple things like accidently 'leaving the seat up' or seeing grown men verbal attacks to get away with so much stuff over time.  One set of apartments we lived in was funded by HUD and most of the tenants were single mothers.  To see and hear how some of them were treated by ex-husbands and boyfriends was frightening to say the least.  But it was also all sort of distant to myself and my sister.  Our dad's were never a part of our lives, but some of the guys mom dated were typical alpha types.

Once I was out on my own after high school, if I was out I was usually dressed, and I did get a lot of whistles and call outs, which wasn't too bad until your heard some of the suggestions the guys would toss out there, to a total stranger no less.  Nothing got physical with them until they saw you were a CD, then it got scary (late 70's to mid 80's).  In the 14 years I lived away from home on my own, I experienced 4 physical attacks, all after the men involved found out I was not a genetic female.  What would they have done if I had been a woman and unable to fight back as hard as I did?  I still ended up on the short end of it, but it did make me see why women can be afraid to out by themselves.

The places I have worked at are just as guilty, with their pay scale.  A couple of jobs I got starting pay equal to what some of the women who had been there for several years was getting.  Almost every job I have had has been predominantly staffed by women, but the promotion system is stacked, leave and vacation is the same way, having a choice in which shift you would like to work doesn't count either, unless your supervisor is a woman too, and then it is little better.  And how is it that men can 'milk the clock' for overtime, but if a woman does it, she gets called in to the office.

Until people finally get it into their heads that other than some physical demands are best left to the guys, we should ALL have the same considerations in society as to how much we are paid or how many hours we are allowed to work.  It may be getting better, but I won'[t believe it until I see it for a fact.

PaulaF