Guilty Secret

[Andrew]

Haha, this post reminds me of the cocoa butter body spray I bought the summer I was a camp counselor. I was 19 and it was about a year after my surgery. Smelled great and I didn't get picked on for being girly -- I was one of the taller guys and there was a (straight) counselor in my cabin who brought two tubs of shea butter and eight pairs of shoes in his luggage to make fun of instead.

[MasonM]

To this day I still haven't figured out what shea butter actually is.

I'm pretty sure it's a sort of lotion, but what is a shea?

[Taka]

To this day I still haven't figured out what shea butter actually is.

I'm pretty sure it's a sort of lotion, but what is a shea?

Shea butter is a slightly yellowish or ivory-colored natural fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa)

[N.Chaos]

Dont get caught up in views of hypermasulinity. A man is confident, wears what he wants and does what he wants because.... that's what he wants. Be the trend setter not just one of the guys that are blindly following the "man code" of what you can and cant do. If someone asks you about something that seems "different", you just confidently say "because I like it".

If you start acting embarassed or get that deer in the headlights look, you risk getting teased... lol.

Seriously. I tried being painfully megamacho, wearing big baggy things that just made me feel gross and eventually (somewhat recently) said to hell with it. If I feel like stealing my girlfriend's pants, I'm gonna do it. If I feel like wearing eyeliner, then everyone can deal with it. It makes me happy, and it makes me feel like me.

Someone on here said a while back "I shouldn't have to give up myself to become myself" and I've been trying very hard to put that into action.

So, yes I'm a guy. I know this without a single doubt in my mind, just like I know that I love sewing and making jewelry, cooking, shaving, and watching Golden Girls. My parents were always huge on buying me whichever toys I wanted, so my Barbies wore Transformers armor. And my Transformers, respectively, lived in a big pink mansion with Theresa and her friends.