Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
Is The Thing That We Do...
A good thing? A bad thing? Or just a "thing"? And is it inevitable that at some point in our lives, someone will turn round to us and discredit everything that we hold as a truism? And should we care?
As much as I'd like to offer some words of verbosity on this, I don't think I can.
I'm just waaaaaaay too drunk
Blogging while drunk is a bad thing.
You know this!
Don't make me tell you off!
The 'thing' we do is 'just a thing'.
People who don't do it may think it's 'bad'. Their opinion is worthless as they don't know what they're talking about. They only know that they don't understand it. People, especially ignorant people, generally fear / distrust things that they don't understand.
I don't know how many of 'us that do it' would say it's a 'good' thing, but most of us would probably agree that it stops us going crazy — which must be a 'good' thing.
Murder, rape, mayhem, violence, intolerance, hunger, disease — these are all bad things.
Help, support, protection, assistance, compassion, acceptance — these are all good things.
Compared to the above, 'the thing we do' is so insignificant that it's not really worth worrying about.
Unless by 'the thing we do' you mean 'housebling'; this is a bad thing.
As for people 'discrediting what we hold true', this depends on if their arguments are water-tight and if you value their opinion. Should the answer to either of these questions be 'no', then fuck 'em.
Inevitable? Probably, at some point.
Sorry about spelling it out like this; but it's late, I suspect you're waaaay too drunk for anything else, and this time I'm sober 
Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Who knows? Maybe it's a bad thing that, by being, lessens the effect of other bad things...so does that make it a good thing?
Oy, I don't think I can wrap my head around this tonight...
Now I am going to quote myself on your blog — what I said Monday... "You can't please everyone — there's always going to be someone who takes offense to who you are and what you do... Don't sweat it."
Its a thing. Yes its inevitable. No you shouldnt care.
All further analysis beyond this point is pointless. And yes — don't I make a crap blogger!
But who am I to tell you how to live your life and think your thoughts. Just as who is anybody to tell you how...
The only truism is how you feel.
It's impossible to answer that question without first defining what you mean by "good" and "bad".
I assume by "thing" you mean "a man putting on women's clothes". I think you have to say that is a morally-neutral act — I don't see how you could say otherwise without assuming that wearing the "right" clothes is some kind of natural thing and further assuming that to do the natural thing is "good". Men have worn women's clothes for a variety of reasons throughout history and in different cultures — it would be hard to argue that they are all prima facie "bad" without, as I say, making unwarranted assumptions about what is natural.
If we agree then that the "thing" is not good or bad in itself then what? Does goodness reside in the act itself? In its intentions? Its consequences? Is it to be identified or judged by its conformity to some law or other? Is it merely to be accepted as self-expression or fulfillment without reference to any ethics?
I shall expect your essay on my desk Friday week 
April needs to see me. If I feel like murdering someone then don't you think other people might have some justification in telling me how to live my life? The Marquis de Sade would have argued that they have no right to prevent me from killing whoever I please — but even he defended that viewpoint with an ethical theory! So further analysis is never pointless. Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living."
In the end, though, I agree with Alli'cat' — if someone hasn't got unassailable logical arguments re the rightness of my wearing women's clothes (and I haven't seen anything like that and I can't even imagine what they would be) they can fuck off!
sorry are we talking about murdering people or the wearing of frilly dresses? I always get those two mixed up... maybe I've missed an important topic change recently...
Yes of course someone is going to care if you fucking kill someone. If you are going to wear a dress then they will mostly likely care less.
Duh!
Now if you were to kill someone whilst wearing a frilly dress....
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...see ya down the barracks.
What, blogging?
Waste of time, IMHO!