Quote from: Mr. Fox on April 11, 2009, 04:51:55 PMYes, one can be femme and male; just look my avatar photo! If you thought that was a woman, you're wrong. It's Pete Burns.
Yeah... I knew that. His lips have haunted my nightmares for years.
As to the question by the original poster, here's my story:
I was a pretty androgynous little kid. I went to Catholic school, so that meant a skirted uniform for myself, but after school, it would be jeans and sweaters or t-shirts. I wasn't a "tomboy" by any stretch of the imagination, though I had an interest in science, dinosaurs, bugs... but also Broadway musicals. When shopping for a new dress for Christmas mass, my mother often commented that I had the taste of a drag queen -- anything with velvet, glitter, sequins, layered skirts, etc..., were on the tops of my lists (but cos we were poor, my mother would always get something with velvet and lace that I didn't totally hate). I rejected pink on account of it being "a girl colour" -- but would gladly play "make-up artist" with my younger sister.
In high school, I was more knock-about and my school's "goth clique" consisted of me and four guys, two of whom wore at least eyeliner to school regularly, and at certain points, all of us but one were dying our hair.
Fresh out of high school, I had a crisis of "high femme" -- or at least as high as can be afforded somebody with a purple Mohawk. After a few years of that, I dove head-first into suits and dressing like a cross between Marc Almond and Kraftwerk's
Der Mensch Maschine album cover. And at this point in transition, I now own more shoes than I ever have, more bottles of nail varnish (many of which, and more hair styling products; every time I see a hot guy with long hair, I find myself regretting getting mine cut. I also drink a lot of Tab (that's still "femme", right?)
