You’re on the Internet, surrounded by opinionated, self-appointed experts — including me. I don’t know how you could have missed it before now.
Anyhow, I’m only an expert on what looks creepy to me. And this qualifies. If it makes them comfortable, more power to them, but if they appear on the street like this, I’m calling UNIT.
It’s about the suit, not the person in the suit. I apologize if it comes off differently.
Really, the trans/queer community has my total support, but my general thought is that a prosthetic should make a transwoman look more natural, not less, and this particular item* is too creepy to do that for me.
*Clarification: It’s the mask. The suit is fine. The mask is creepy as a clown with spider eyes.
I’m not creeped out by serial rapists because they aren’t creepy, they’re a legitimate threat to my life which doesn’t creep me out. Instead it makes me angry, vigilant, and defensive as well as suspicious about those around me.
Big difference.
I’m creeped out by ghost stories but I don’t believe in ghosts.I find this creepy but I know they aren’t actual corpse dolls. Hence creepy rather than caught between great rage and mortal terror, which is a totally different feeling.
Yeah, I’m not into it, but I don’t get the need of some people to deride and ridicule it, or simply call it “wrong”. On another site where this was being discussed I was surprised that a self-identified gay man grumbled about this group being “lumped in with the gays”. Because it seems relevant I’ll repeat my reply to him here:
We’re talking about people who are into something that, even though it doesn’t harm anyone, still marginalizes them. If they came out into the open, in spite of the fact that they’re not harming and don’t want to harm anyone, the likely response they’d get is fear, hatred, and even anger. They’d face losing their jobs, their families, and possibly even being subjected to violence.
I may not be into the same thing they are but I can relate to how it must feel.
And despite having no dislike for trannie stuff in general, the creep factor here is…palpable. We talk a lot of stuff about people being objectified - usually women, but this is the real deal. Or, the fake deal? Anyway, the very suit to turn a human into something that absolutely appears to be an object.
I know a guy who wants to be transgendered into a lesbian female (yeah - I know). Like there weren’t enough issues already. But can’t afford it presently. This is supposed to be the alternative? Because…nuhhh… This? Really?!
As someone who is in that same boat (M2F, not into men at all), let me just say that there’s a world of difference between sexual preference and gender identity.
You know, I get it on a purely intellectual level. Two different things, yes. I can empathize easily enough with either, or grasp either idea. But that’s about as far as I seem to be able to reach. Somewhere at the point where changing one’s gender identity on a physical level at tremendous expense and substantial physical risk, but then simultaneously becoming homosexual (in possibly the only circumstance where it actually ever is a choice), there’s a loud ‘zzzzt!’ and my brain just short-circuits.
If you added a FemSkin to all of that? My eyeballs would begin to wobble about and I babble incoherently.
That said - hey, whatever blows your skirt up. If it makes you happy and harms no one? All good. I just don’t want to witness any part of that scenario that involves the scary silicone things. Bad boob jobs are already more than I want to see.