Common sense
Aha! Appearances are never deceiving! Actors who play characters are the characters they play! You are what you say you are!
Yes indeed and Helen Mirren is Elizabeth Windsor, Gillian Anderson is Margaret Thatcher, Tom Hanks is Ben Bradlee, Robert Redford is Bob Woodward, Helena Bonham Carter was on the Titanic when it broke apart and sank.
Also, by the way, we can see the color difference between Willoughby’s heavily made-up face and his chest. Oops.
A man who has grown his hair is still a man.
A man who has put on makeup is still a man.
A man who has put on clothes which are conventionally regarded as being for women is still a man.
A man who has had extensive plastic surgery is still a man.
A man who has poisoned himself with steroids is still a man.
A man who has done any combination of the above is still a man.
To be a woman, someone has to be born female and grow up. A woman doesn’t have to grow her hair long, or wear makeup, or put on any particular clothing, or have surgery, or take drugs, in order to be a woman.
And that drives Jonathan wild.
I am a stable genius.
I am Marie of Romania.
I am the egg man.
I am the egg man.
I am the walrus.
Coo-coo coo-choo.
Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream;
Highlows pass as patent leathers;
Jackdaws strut in peacock’s feathers.
Black sheep dwell in every fold;
All that glitters is not gold;
Storks turn out to be but logs;
Bulls are but inflated frogs.
Spot on Tigger. I don’t know whether it’s peculiar to autogynephiles or not, but the way so many trans women especially crave the (self) affirmation of looking at and promoting photos of themselves looking very attractive and, well, woman like. Then you find the candid shots of them. Bloke in women’s clothes, often looking 20 or 30 years older than the heavily made up, filtered, frequently professionally shot photo. We all have photos we’re proud of and photos we are not so, but the disparity with the likes of Willoughby go beyond that. It’s the self delusion that is especially profound. Most importantly, it’s all so superficial and performative. It has nothing to do with actually being.
The costume is neither a man nor a woman. Either a man or a woman can wear it.
Helen Mirren is Elizabeth Windsor
Wait, she’s not Ayn Rand?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Ayn_Rand_(film)#Cast
And Glenn Close isn’t a man, even though she had a speaking role as one in Hook, which I never realized until someone pointed it out a few years ago. She’s the guy who gets put in the Boo Box.
Has anyone ever seen both Christian Bale and Batman in the same room together?