The Other Man | Digital Photo Collage | 2026 | The Closet Series — Behan |
Tony did it in the nineteen fifties. Flip did it in the nineteen sixties. Dustin did it in the nineteen eighties and so many more. Careers were made with men performing as women, most often in comedic roles, to great acclaim.
So what is the beef with transgender women?
It’s as simple as stepping off a stage.
As long as men in women’s clothing are set apart and set away like specimens in a zoo, the dominant culture is free to laugh and enjoy the spectacle. But step off the stage into real life and real problems emerge.
The hypocrisy of conservative thinkers who can’t see the problem with both supporting one end and rejecting the other end of men in dresses is profound. The absurdity of the argument that somehow society is endangered when men step off the stage in a dress is tragically pathetic.
It’s way past time for some folks at long last to get a life.
