A quote I read today

This was posted on a forum I frequent:

"I was at Transformations one day before Jim retired and a CD was trying on dresses. He got kind of upset when he tried one on. He said something about if a man can look this good in a dress then why won't his wife ever wear one?"

Why there are so many transgendered and gender non-conforming people today

I think I know why there are so many transgender or gender
non-conforming individuals today. I can't believe that nobody up until
now has thought of this theory...

In order to understand where I am going with this, you first need to
understand evolution. The process of evolution is the mechanism by which
DNA (God, whatever - not the topic here) experiments with new ideas.
Every once in a while, there is a mutation introduced in an individual
when they are conceived (or before they are born, but that is a
different topic entirely). This individual begins life as a "mutant" of
sorts. Sometimes this mutant will survive long enough to bring offspring
into the world, sometimes they will not.

Natural selection is nature's (or God's - again, not the topic here)
way of weeding out the "good" mutants from the "bad" mutants. If the
mutation is one which is beneficial, more and more will survive with the
mutation to pass it along to their offspring. If it is not beneficial,
most of them will die before having children, thereby limiting the
mutation to a very tiny set of the population.

Now, here is where my theory comes in. You see, through modern medicine
we (humans) have altered the process of Natural Selection. Every day we
have children who are born months premature or with some "defect" who
will now survive to adulthood. In the past, these children would not
have survived long at all. In some cases, this would have been a good
thing because their mutation, disease, etc. is not beneficial. They will
then pass this "defect" along to their children (even if it is
generation-skipping). Eventually, a male and female with the same
"defect" will have children and it comes out again.

Just look at the average height of humans. Over the past 400 years or
so, the average height has gone up well over a foot (gradually). Due to
better food supplies and vitamins, medicine, etc. taller humans are
surviving and living longer where they may not have before. In the last
30 years the average height has gone up 2 or 3 inches alone. This is
Natural Selection at work.

Society is also to blame for altering the Natural Selection process.
Because women are taking on more "masculine" roles, "feminine" males are
more in demand to balance out the population to a happy medium. In the
past, "feminine" men would in many cases go off to war to suppress the
undesirable qualities and prove that they were "men", or because their
fathers thought it would "cure" their young sons. Many of these would
die childless as a result, not passing on the "feminine" traits to their
(unborn) sons. Because more "feminine" males are now allowed to survive
longer, more and more of them are having children than ever before. As a
result, the "feminine" gene is spreading. As this femininity spreads, so
does society's acceptance of it since it is no longer seen as a "bad"
thing (overall). Men are staying home and raising children. Men are
sewing and knitting. Men are doing the grocery shopping. Men are
beginning to assume roles that society used to reserve for women.

As a result of all of this, more and more men (and women, though they
are less noticed by society) are surviving with gender-variant qualities
such as androgyny, transsexual, crossdresser, etc. This would definitely
explain why we are seeing such a surge in the cross dressing,
androgynous, and transsexual portions of the population over the last 50
or so years. Modern medicine threw the snowball down the hill and it has
been growing faster and faster ever since as gravity did it's job (so to
speak).

Poem added to the site

I wrote a poem today titled "But do they know?"

http://heathercd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92:but-do-they-know&catid=36:by-heather&Itemid=58

New article added

I just added a "how to lean like a woman" article on the site. I have
also been doing some serious rearranging of the pages on the site. Check
it out if you haven't lately.

makeup video returns

I finally got the makeup video back on the site. I added a videos link
to the menu for it.

To all the guys who don't wear skirts

I have just one thing to say. You don't know what you're missing... It's 25f outside and I wore an ankle length denim skirt and over the knee socks. This kept me much warmer than jeans any day. Skirts really are the way to go. By the way, I wore the skirt in guy mode and will be doing it much more this winter.