I quickly felt myself riding the crest of success, uplifted on the broad shoulders of a sea of grateful men in skirts. Not only had I put my well manicured finger on the pulse of every crossdresser's dream, but I had tapped into the rich mother lode of the male psyche. Crossdressers are not atypical. They are simply the most obvious reflection of a longing that I believe is common to all men. My students are a bold avant garde that represent the other men's movement. You may have heard of the "Iron Johns", well meet the iron butterflies.
When women felt the need to share more in the male experience, to move from the home to the workplace, from the bedroom to the boardroom, to be financially independent and sexually autonomous, we created the women's movement. Men, too, have a need for balance in their lives, to share more in what from their points of view are the most desirable aspects of the female experience? to be pampered and protected, to be glamourous and sexually irresistible, and, yes, even to do housework - many of the "privileges" that we women saw as confining. For every woman who burned her bra, there is a man ready to wear one.
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