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posted by K-Man on Nov 19

The following is a rant from the schmucks over at Bangkok Badboy blog. He has interesting views on prostitution in Thailand and isn’t afraid to spill what’s on his mind, my kind of guy!

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“I’m just looking, to see what I’m missing”. So sang Tim Burgess of indie groovesters The Charlatans back in 1995. Kelly Jones of the Welsh-and-crap Stereophonics sang something similar a few years later, but I wasn’t listening. This is, of course, irrelevant.

Because the topic today is that of (brace yourselves, homophobes), ladyboys.

Katoeys. Chicks with Dicks. Cocks in Frocks.

Venuses with Penises

Call them what you will - some love them, whilst others hate them. But everybody seems to have an opinion.

On of the biggest worries of most Bangkok Virgins is whether they’ll be able to tell whether that cute chick fluttering her eyelashes in the bar is biologically female or not. It’s easy enough to tell in Nana Plaza’s four ladyboy bars - they’re all genetically dudes, and what’s more - they all have dicks. But elsewhere, it’s not always so straightforward.

Most straight guys would be horrified to discover that their Bangkok Belle comes with a bell-end, but at least they’d know. Experience and the usual tell-tale signs (big hands, strong jaw, adam’s apple, deep voice, five-o-clock shadow and a bulge in the groin department) can usually filter out most of the impersonators.

But I defy any of you not to find Poy Threechada, seen here on Google, and the girl on top of this post, at least slightly confusing.

In short, there’s always the chance one might slip through the net. Especially if “she” is a post-op. What does a post-op mangina look like anyway? Anyone ever seen one? Just how would you know for sure if it’s the real thing?

As a public service, and to satisfy my own curiosity, I decided to find out.

Full Disclosure

First things first, where to look? As mentioned, Nana Plaza’s four dedicated ladyboy gogos exclusively feature she-males of the pre-op variety. They’ve all got knobs. So they were a non-starter.

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posted by K-Man on Nov 9

The following post is (sort of) sponsored by Shemales Get Fucked.

I think it was more of a drive-by. Belledame of Fetch Me My Axe linked to a trans-friendly feminism proposal on another blog last week, and just in the past couple days, a transphobic feminist dropped in to put trannies back in our place.

In response to Kim’s proposal:

For 30+ years, I’ve heard men saying that women are refusing to take care of them, accept their excuses, let them in wherever they want to go hurts the men. So, when you use the word “hurt”, I want a definition.

Hurt like sexist laws shorten the lifespans of women? Or hurt like my feelings of abandonment come up?

It is possible to COMPLETELY support the human rights of transfolk and choose to not include them in your own particular self-definition. And if your organization/gathering is based on your own particular self-definition, one you’ve arrived at despite being the member of a group targeted for serious oppression for millenia, then your decision has a right to stand on its own. It’s about self-definition and empowerment for groups who are not running the show.

Some of us NEED space where our own self-definition (as members of a group targeted for hostility and projection of others definition of us) is dominant. The fact that this is perceived as a threat, as “painful”, as not “nurturing” enough simply REEKS of how women are supposed to sacrifice self for the needs of others.

We’re not in the way of your liberation or self-definition. We just want some room to create our own spaces sometimes. We really don’t believe you’re exactly the same as us, and honestly, neither do you — you make a giant production of how special you are. You play the victim card every chance you get. Some of you claim you are MORE oppressed than other women.

But we DO get to make up our own minds, and our own definitions of who we are. I categorically reject the accusation that this action by a target group is “hurtful”.

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