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Anonymous
Guest09/11/2008 at 6:56 amHi Yvonne.
I’m with you on the “Just do it” thing.
I love the girl side of me and decided that why not still pursue my other passions as well, not really seeing it as my “Macho” side as you put it.
I actually did an ARC event in S.A. in the 70’s
Allthough the emphasis has changed a little as having been on hormomes for some time… I think i’m more interested in how my car looks than how fast it goes.
As for your “model of a woman”..mmm interesting…never thought of it that way but for me its probably true.
I really enjoy the “mechanics” of making a transformation..bringing about as much realism as possible.
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Anonymous
Guest10/11/2008 at 12:17 amPersonally I can’t sew, I can’t knit, I can’t crochet and I know natal females that can’t.
I can put a button on, and fix a clasp and thats about where it ends.
I have no interest in knitting or sewing, or crochet.
I also know natal females who can’t cook.
Their husbands do all of the cooking.
That turns stereotyping on it head.Transplant that into the 1930’s when women were expected to cook and clean and do all of the housework and give up their jobs when they got married.
Think of Christine jorgenssen making headlines in the fiftes because of her transsexuality.I think of how far we’ve come since those days and I’m thankful.
We can be and do pretty much what we want and no one really cares.I think if someone wants to have a model train layout and fix old cars and then frock up on the weekend and run around celebrating that aspect of who they are then power to them.
Labels just tend to be too confining and i like to break out of those restrictions and just be me.
WOOOOHOOO!!!!Check out the story of Roberta Cowell.
What a character!
She was a spitfire pilot during WWII and also used to race motor cars.
She used to dress like marilyn monroe with the hair and the makeup and dresses and all of the frills.
Imagine that behind the wheel of a race car or in the cocpit of a fighter plane.
The world is much more intereasting with people in it like her than without.
She was a transsexual.She had a sex change but didn’t have a personality transplant and power to her and all those like her.
Claire
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Anonymous
Guest10/11/2008 at 1:46 amHi again girls,it’s been interesting to read of all the different hobbies/interests that we have,and while I’m not into steam trains,I love any thing to do with the old paddlesteamers that used to run on the murray darling rivers,I dont know what it is about them,but i’ve been interested in them since I was about 14 years old.I hope one day that I will be able to afford to take a cruise that last’s for several days on one of the restored ones that are still running here in S.A..
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Anonymous
Guest10/11/2008 at 1:49 amIndeedy, Claire, that documentary you put me onto about the beginnings of sexual reassignment surgery featuring Roberta was amazing, after her sex change she was still roaring up hillclimbs looking as glam as any hot chick of the time.
Oh yeah, you all might not know it but I’m an automotive illustrator, that’s someone with engineering leanings without the maths
. My main employment is designing drag racing t shirts, that’s right, I’m “The drag queen who draws drag cars”
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Anonymous
Guest10/11/2008 at 9:35 amHi Girls,
Its interesting to read how many girls have been interested in models ,cars ,planes etc .When I was young I just lived to build model planes .It was as I saw it nothing to do with my maleness , it was mainly to do with my creativity ,as I designed most of the ones I flew and used to spend endless hours visualising the shapes of the things .It was almost a sensual thing, in that streamlining involves flowing curves and exotic ( well sort of ) shapes and I used to realise from time to time that there was a similarity to dress design – flowing dresses that is …
My foray into sport was different matter in that I just got sick of being ridiculed at school for being so slightly built and weak and took up various sports so as to prove my self and gain some acceptance in a scholl well known for its rewarding of sporting excellence – Oh god at times I wish i hadnt been at that school ! None the less the small amount of success I had at sport brought some relief and acceptance I really think at this point I went into long term suppression of my girl side ..
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Anonymous
Guest10/11/2008 at 9:58 amAs a child I used to enjoy making models as well but I would all too often end up morphing different model kits and end up with some fairly out there designs. Maybe a metaphor for gender roles? Very often these would end up on the wrong end of a bunger in the name of chaos. Now my job involves making order out of chaos and has a strong nurturing role. I think I just had to discover a way to channel the energy rather than be angry with it.
Chrissy
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Anonymous
Guest10/11/2008 at 11:41 amHi Girls,
This is a fun topic, and I thought I would contribute. Like many of you I was also very keen on building model kits as a kid, especially cars & aircraft, although this hobby hasn’t stayed with me.
I have always loved motorsport, but this interest probably pre-dates my dressing desires. I first got hooked when I happened to stumble across Bathurst one day in the 70’s, but, June, I agree with you that the V8s now are generally boring these days. I also enjoy F1, but this can also be a bit pedestrian, but my clear favourite by a big margin is rallying.
I also used to compete in rallys as a navigator and also dabbled in circuit sprints for a bit of tarmac fun. I ended up doing the State Championships for a few years and even won our class at the Alpine Rally one year. Often I would compete against members from the Car Club that Amy Jane is a member of (and she might remember having a few conversations about motorsport when our paths have crossed).
By the way, Amy Jane, if you like classic cars from the 70’s & 80’s and Celicas…I still own a Group A Celica GT4 from the early 1990’s…does that count?
As for work, well, I work in the finance sector, which isn’t particularly blokey with both sexes well represented, but I think most people would describe me as outwardly pretty blokey, and many would be very surprised that I crossdress.
Love to you all,
Sonia
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Anonymous
Guest11/11/2008 at 10:37 amHi Sonia.
Nice to hear from you.
Cut off for Historics is 1986…but a GT4…mmm that is hot.
Classic Rallying is having a great resurgance…you need to come back.
The Alpine is running next year..late November around Lakes Entrance and Orbost…that gives you 12 months to find a ride or build a car.
Do you still get out these days ?
Since PINK closed my club outings have reduced…allthought I still do Commercial Rd and Smith St every now and then.
XX Amy -
I was in Melbourne last weekend for the Historic car racing at Sandown.
it was a great meeting. i went on Saturday underdressed it was a great
experience mixing my favorite interests of Motorsport and Crossdressing.
i was able to spend most of my time dressed or partly dressed,i even
visitad Celeste for a makeover. I did request information about places
to go on the forum but i was dissapointed that i got no response.
However it was a wonderful weekend. -
Anonymous
Guest13/11/2008 at 10:52 amI just thought I’d toss this in for you lucky girls in Sydney or near by.
Theres a Tasman revival meeting on at Eastern Creek in two weeks with 30+ cars mostly F5000 .
I’d love to be there for it, I did’nt know about till a couple of weeks ago and can’t make it, but I’ll try for next year and come hopefully en femme (2 dreams come true) Seeing real racing cars and me seeing them as a woman.Anyway with that many F5000’s in action it gives meaning to the quote “did the earth move for you”
as PS I was AIR in 1978 for the Rothmans series races and was standing by the pit wall at the start , and It still gives me tingles to think about it 30 years later, the sheer wall of sound and vibration that went just went right through me is a memory I can never forget! and that was only about a dozen cars ………25-30 cars wow!!!!!
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Yvonne, my best memories of racing were going to the old Caversham Circuit outside of Perth and sitting in my car in the infield at the entrance to the main straight and watching the cars go by about 20 feet away. There was only a post and rail fence between us and the racing.
Quite exciting but when things moved to Wanneroo (Barbagallo now) you needed a telescope to see the races and it lost its thrill for me so I moved on to rallying.
But being that close to the racing was marvellous.
June
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We do seem to share common interests June. I am also an old
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Anonymous
Guest16/11/2008 at 1:57 pmWell, I can’t resist seeing as there is so many revheads out there. I attended meets at Caversham many times. Other than Claremont Speedway, Caversham was the first road race circuit I ever attended – I was twelve years old from memory. It was a six hour and Ray Barfield won in an ex Le Man Aston Martin DB3 (Sharon, correct me if I am wrong about the model). I well remember watching the Neptune Trident Racing team with Norm Beechey in a HK Monaro, Jim McKeown in a Lotus Cortina and Peter Manton in a Cooper S, nipping at their heels. Years later, at Oran Park, I saw Allan Moffat’s first appearance in NSW with the Coke Mustang. Also at Oran Park, possibly at the same meet, I saw one Peter Brock, beard and all, driving his Holden powered Austin A30, take on the Pete Geoghan Mustang. Another Peter who competed at Oran Park was Peter Wherret who ran about mid field in a borrowed hot Mini. I could go on… Neil Allen in F5000; Frank Matich in the Group 7 big banger sports …. ahh, those were the days
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Anonymous
Guest16/11/2008 at 1:59 pmOops! Stupid me. Beechey was in the S4 EH Holden – his Monaro was some years later.
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Anonymous
Guest17/11/2008 at 9:37 amWell I don’t know if it’s a common theme or if there is a correlation, but I was a motor mechanic for about 9 years. When I got my apprenticeship I ditched the pony and became obsessed with the internal combustion engine – probably the highlight (or absurd end) was my 1972 Chrysler by Chrysler coupe with 360 cubes of American bent iron up front, weighed over 1.5 tonnes and at 120 miles an hour, it got a cushion of air under it and threatened to leap into the sky… Well, I was 19
Since those days, I’ve done adegree in Ag Science and worked in the agricultural and natural resources sectors, dealing with farmers from Hay to Cooma and beyond and the even more conservative govt agencies I work for! I’m more interested in pedal power and compete (very averagely) in local mountain bike races and am currently planning a Permaculature make-over for our new backyard (any correlations with the environmental sectors out there?)
When I was a kid, I loved making military models and am still a sucker for (good!) war movies. Now I make (try) jewelry – silver smithing which is actually quite a brutal trade like blacksmithing (which I’d love to try)only smaller. My next investment is going to be a welder so I can make a front gate and shelves and all sorts of other fun things myself.
As for the macho thing, I don’t think I’ve ever really carried that off!
Lately, we’ve moved into our own home – a do-upper! I spent 2 days on the roof of the shed tearing out roofing nails and screwing the roof back on. My for arms are covered in scars, my nails are ruined and I haven’t plucked my eyebrows in weeks! I feel quite satisfied!
I figure I grew up in the 80’s. Girls can do anything!
cheers
S