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trans2006-07-23 09:04 pm
garlicfiend.livejournal.com) wrote in trans2006-07-23 09:04 pm
Just curious...
and no, I don't mean trans-curious :P
I was wondering, is anyone else having space issues keeping a two-gender wardrobe? My dresser is maxed out. I should purge all the boy underwear, but... dude, those boxer-briefs were expensive! And my half of the closet is packed. And I am having enough territory issues with my wife on this whole thing to dare ask for more. I have a hard enough time follwing the cardinal rule of "Thou shalt not borrow!" (because, see, sometimes she gives me stuff, and I kinda lose track of what she's given me and I what I really want her to give me... 9_9)
In other news, being a woman is hell on the hips. I've been walking a lot recently. I walk a half-hour at lunch every day, two miles home from work, and the two miles two work when I can wake up and get out the door quick enough. This, in combination with going vegan, is an effort to finally be rid of the guy belly and also decrease some of my muscle mass in general (low protien, low carbs, high exercise=body eating it's own muscles -- woo!). So, while I am doing all that walking is a good chance to practice feminizing my walk.
Which is an amusing subject. I work in a big office environment filled with many run-of-the-mill female types across the spectrum. And most women--get this--walk like men. I kid you not. Because I have done a lot of observing. Not a single woman out of at least fifty in my office has anything resembling a runway-model walk. They walk the exact same as guys except that their hips are a bit wider and their pelvis is tilted forward.
But I (and all my other MTF sisteren) have the disadvantage of having to compensate against masculine gender cues, so casual runway walk it is. Note that runway models usually look like twelve-year-old boys stretched on the rack, so maybe they are doing the same thing...? So I walk with my hips. Or from the hips. I just kind of let them be in charge for a change. Imagine what walking would be like if your hips were throwing the legs and feet out and dragging the rest of you along with it. Only with natural feminine grace. And really, I think my hips enjoy this. Until I stop, then they go "Dude, WTF was that all about? *hurt hurt hurt*" My right hip also hurts because I have walked with my right foot turned outward since I was a teenager, and I am attempting to correct that so that I will look more feminine (even though most women walk with one or both feet pointed outward).
So the good news is, all this training of my walk has paid off, and it is becoming more natural and subconscious. And it should really pay off when and if HRT gives me hips and a but work my strut with. But until then, much with the ouch-ness. Army basic training got nuthin' on transition.
I was wondering, is anyone else having space issues keeping a two-gender wardrobe? My dresser is maxed out. I should purge all the boy underwear, but... dude, those boxer-briefs were expensive! And my half of the closet is packed. And I am having enough territory issues with my wife on this whole thing to dare ask for more. I have a hard enough time follwing the cardinal rule of "Thou shalt not borrow!" (because, see, sometimes she gives me stuff, and I kinda lose track of what she's given me and I what I really want her to give me... 9_9)
In other news, being a woman is hell on the hips. I've been walking a lot recently. I walk a half-hour at lunch every day, two miles home from work, and the two miles two work when I can wake up and get out the door quick enough. This, in combination with going vegan, is an effort to finally be rid of the guy belly and also decrease some of my muscle mass in general (low protien, low carbs, high exercise=body eating it's own muscles -- woo!). So, while I am doing all that walking is a good chance to practice feminizing my walk.
Which is an amusing subject. I work in a big office environment filled with many run-of-the-mill female types across the spectrum. And most women--get this--walk like men. I kid you not. Because I have done a lot of observing. Not a single woman out of at least fifty in my office has anything resembling a runway-model walk. They walk the exact same as guys except that their hips are a bit wider and their pelvis is tilted forward.
But I (and all my other MTF sisteren) have the disadvantage of having to compensate against masculine gender cues, so casual runway walk it is. Note that runway models usually look like twelve-year-old boys stretched on the rack, so maybe they are doing the same thing...? So I walk with my hips. Or from the hips. I just kind of let them be in charge for a change. Imagine what walking would be like if your hips were throwing the legs and feet out and dragging the rest of you along with it. Only with natural feminine grace. And really, I think my hips enjoy this. Until I stop, then they go "Dude, WTF was that all about? *hurt hurt hurt*" My right hip also hurts because I have walked with my right foot turned outward since I was a teenager, and I am attempting to correct that so that I will look more feminine (even though most women walk with one or both feet pointed outward).
So the good news is, all this training of my walk has paid off, and it is becoming more natural and subconscious. And it should really pay off when and if HRT gives me hips and a but work my strut with. But until then, much with the ouch-ness. Army basic training got nuthin' on transition.