Well guys...what are my options???

[bootlova]

I am in the Auto Business... not too many women in our areana

[Bluejay]

In the UK attitudes have begun to change. Over recent years we have had a post -op transsexual win our highest rating reality show"big brother", postive media articles in nationally circulated magazines,upcoming changes in the Law to allow transsexuals to have their brith certificates amended and the impending Law allowing same sex marriage, giving the GBTL community the same rights as hetrosexuals.

In terms of the business community in the UK, very strictly enforced legislation ensures that discrimination within the work place is penalised heavily.

I work for a FTSE 100 company in a senior middle management position and was recently the victim of a serious sexually orientated hate campiagn, which invovled pornographic pictures of my girlfriend and I being sent to senior directors of my company.

At the time I thought that my position would be untenurable and decided to resign. I was extremely suprised to find that not only would they not accept my resignation,telling me"What you decide to do outside of work is nothing to do with us", they gave me a large payrise, a plumb new job role and a new car!

I've now been in a LTR with a T-girl for over 5 years, its quite common knowledge within my workplace. my colleagues attitudes have not changed towards me in a negative sense as a result.

[khun_diow]

Thuggish -- brazil -- you'll never want again...

[rocklob]

Felicia,
Just to give credit where it's due, F. Scott Fitzgerald said "The very rich are different from you and me" to which Hemingway responded "yes, they have more money". I know I'm terribly pedantic, but I think it makes Hemingway's repost even wittier.

This has been one of the most interesting threads in a while.

I hope thuggish works it out.

[Felicia Katt]

Felicia,
Just to give credit where it's due, F. Scott Fitzgerald said "The very rich are different from you and me" to which Hemingway responded "yes, they have more money". I know I'm terribly pedantic, but I think it makes Hemingway's repost even wittier.

This has been one of the most interesting threads in a while.

I hope thuggish works it out.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
Riches
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
1896-1940 American Writer



Felicia

[Thuggish_Intellect]

Felicia,
Just to give credit where it's due, F. Scott Fitzgerald said "The very rich are different from you and me" to which Hemingway responded "yes, they have more money". I know I'm terribly pedantic, but I think it makes Hemingway's repost even wittier.

This has been one of the most interesting threads in a while.

I hope thuggish works it out.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
Riches
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
1896-1940 American Writer



Felicia

Very powerful quote by F. Scott...indeed

[TexasTman]

Peoples expectations are for their movie stars, music stars ...etc. to be mainstream. By mainstream they mean "normal" heterosexuals. That does not mean that they particularly give a shit what someone does behind closed doors but they would probably rather not know about it. They would rather "imagine" that their favorite action hero is a staunch heterosexual rather than a pillow-biting, ankle-grabbing dandy. It is all about the perception. That is why there are so many gay actors that have "beards" for companions. They, rightfully, know that image is everything and they need to maintain the image that will sell tickets or cds or whatever. I always laugh when someone acts surprised to find out that some famous actor is "really" gay. I mean come on folks...most of the successful actors where in the drama clubs in high school. Of course there is a higher percentage of gay people in the "arts".

Most people have a hard time suspending reality and fantasy so they want their favorite "celebrities" to be straight.

We may see the day when a man comes out with a TG girlfriend or wife but I suspect that whoever that person is, they will be financially and professionally scorned.

Mainstream sells! We do not live in a perfect world. We live in a world where we want to believe what we want to believe.

[Paladin]

1. I think it's mostly the money. What other job can command 200-400 an hour?

Sure, and they make this money 8 hours a day, 5 days a week with paid vacations, health ins (for what it's worth here in the US) retirement, profit sharing, stock options, etc all included.

Right.

Get real folks.

[Paladin]

Think of the old guard in the Republican Party, denouncing public immorality and claiming to be the protectors of family values -- all the while cheating on their wives by banging nineteen-year-old interns and high priced escorts.

Umm,

I think you have this confused. it was DEMOCRATIC former president "slick Willy" bill (thank god that's over) clinton who messed this shit up so badly that now our teenage daughters think oral sex is not sex because "the president said so"...

[TominNYC]

Think of the old guard in the Republican Party, denouncing public immorality and claiming to be the protectors of family values -- all the while cheating on their wives by banging nineteen-year-old interns and high priced escorts.

Umm,

I think you have this confused. it was DEMOCRATIC former president "slick Willy" bill (thank god that's over) clinton who messed this shit up so badly that now our teenage daughters think oral sex is not sex because "the president said so"...