Last time, I spoke of practicality (horrors!) in terms of feminine footwear, and related it to passability.  This is a bit of an addendum to that post.

While part of me wants to be as authentic a woman as possible, another part recognizes that tgirls are, by definition, exceptional women – exceptionally good, bad or just different, we are not the same.

I have often made a point of saying how much I feel that being a tgirl is being a special, wonderful, rare creature.

So, I am well aware that simply striving to be a woman like every other is not always the goal.

I am not entirely without sympathy for the concept that guides some of us, that many GGs have come to take their femininity for granted and have dropped the ball.

We may want to pursue that so-called lost art of femininity, but even then, if it is to have any effect outside of the individuals doing it, it is still an evolution, not a revolution.

And, there are two very important things to remember before substituting your version of womanliness for present-day femininity:

• the further your representation of womanhood differs from reality, the less seriously you will be taken; and
• though the pendulum may have swung too far, they know better than we do what life is like as a woman; the more you live it, the more you will realize that much (though perhaps not all) of what GGs have done makes a lot of sense.

Forewarned is forearmed.