From: Michelle Jenkins (dlvdisc@geekbabe.com)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 19:50:13 CST
Roni,
FIRSTLY:
The list of NOT to DO's is for your protection when you're not with the
(a large) group as much as anything. When we congregate we do get
noticed but unless there is some really stupid (perhaps even suicidal)
redneck around all they (the great unwashed) do is stare, giggle and in
most cases ignore us.
However the problems arise when you leave this group situation, a wee
bit like a gazelle leaving a herd of gazelles and being picked off by
the local lions or lionesses.
Most, perhaps even all, of the bathroom incidents have happened when a
group has been in the area but an individual has been approached.
SECONDLY:
When we are in a group, special functions aside, we asked for level of
deportment, decorum and and general behaviour that explemplifies ladies
not drunken teenage whores (if you'll excuse the expression). When in a
group of TG's however large, those with garish makeup, six inch high
heels or mini skirts that not reach the the top of the thigh create and
impression, irrespective of how the others are dressed.
The girl who wears an evening gown to the mall while others are wearing
jeans and a T-shirt, whether TG or real honest to god, female flesh (!,
again apologies) is bound to create an impression and get VERY noticed.
THIRDLY:
Some of us, and this may only be me of course (:-)) prefer to be as
inconspicuous as possible and "fly under the radar". This is for our own
personal security and protection. While I'm sure that both real and TG
girls can and will get molested, doing as much as possible to avert such
a situation is good common sense.
NOW GENERALLY:
I've been meaning to make the following point for a while now but never
seemed to get round to writing it.
DLV is not about cross dressing. Its about dressing as women and going
out as women and enjoying life as women... this not meaning that you
can't attend many of the activities in boy mode.
If you come to DLV looking for a protected environment where you wish to
indulge solely in a series of cross dressing fantasies, this probably
not the event. Those that come tend on the whole to be presenting and
acting as women for most if not all of their time in Las Vegas. I know I
do.
Every year we see a proportion of cross dressers who really don't "get
it". They are 6 plus feet tall, turn up, in short skirts, very high
heels, garish make up and teeter on a clearly uncomfortable,
"unwalkable" pair of shoes to the embarrassment of us all...and this
is to breakfast, or lunch.
As for the low heeled shoes, these are girls best friend in LV where one
typically has to walk miles to get anywhere. I love high heels as much
as the next girls but walking and standing in them for 4-6 hours for an
evening out can be tiring and painful.
Anyway my thoughts for the year. I will now creep back into my hole and
pop up again next year some time!
Hugs
Michelle
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