Okay! Throughout the years, there had been various threads and posts on the boards of http://suicidegirls.com regarding transgender women; particularly, two specific threads that discussed the questions and desires of MANY about if there would EVER be a PRE-OP MTF Transgender Woman (or Kathoey/Katoey, if you like to be a fickle little bitch, such as myself).
Some have expressed, since there has yet to be one as of date, that SG hasn't been more welcoming to transgendered hopefuls. Stating that "Hell, excluding women because they were born with testicles (whether or not they still have them) is downright anti-feminist."and (from the same source of the previous statement {who I will keep anonymous}) "What's more alternative or redefining of beauty than rebuilding one's entire physical appearance, demeanor, and identity?" /// "I get that, at its core, SG is a site intended to make money by titillating horny men, but it's also a social movement and including transwomen is absolutely within the spirit of that movement."...These were stated in disappointment that there has, as I said, yet to be a transgender woman on the site. There have been many other statements of similar expressions of disappointment spanning across many other threads and board posts. However, there are rumors (while mentioned that these rumors are also very true), that there has been at least one POST-OP transwoman to have been a model on the site in the past. There are claims that there has been more than one POST-OP transwoman.
Now, I have been a member of Suicidegirl.com since pretty damn close to day one. I have always loved what the site stood for, what it had meant to me personally (and I am not talking about wanking). But the artistry painted and pinned on the bodies of many women braving a "new world" to the point where it has become a sub-pop-cultural revolution. Opening the eyes of the media world-wide to an old form of beauty that was hidden away in the streets of every free-thinking modern society. I fell in love with SG for that very reason. I could personally care less if there had never been ANY transwoman to ever model for SG at any given point of time of its existence, just for that reason alone.
Would I like to see all forms of women portrayed in this revolutionary, and quite legendary, website?
Yes! I most certainly would.
Does Suicidegirls.com still stand for what it had represented in the past, or has it sold itself out to "mainstream media"?
Yes, it still does stand for what it had in the beginning. No, it has not sold itself out, but it did grow with popularity...and for a very good reason! It did not sell itself to "mainstream media", but forced "mainstream media" to redefine itself and broaden its shallow gaze on the world of women of all types. Suicidegirls.com is still quite young and holds a GREAT deal of promise today to continue to stretch the boundaries of society's view of "what is beautiful" and "What a woman should look like". And it is NOT saying that in this age, a woman's beauty is defined by how much ink she has, or how many piercings she has. The soul of Suicidegirls.com has always been the attitude and personality of EVERY woman who is willing to try and brave the world of so-called "beauty" defined by a "social standard". Suicidegirls.com screams out that there is ALWAYS more to a woman's beauty than what society defines. It is ALL these women that do that very thing that are the ever-beating heart and soul of Suicidegirls.com, and it is sound to this very day.
Would I like to see transwomen, both POST-OP and PRE-OP MTF, portrayed in SG.com?
Yes! I most DEFINITELY would!
As a matter of FACT, I have been posting on my own SG.com account, many galleries of various amateur photo shoots of myself! Taken by no more than my iPhone 4. And in some select photos, with the assistance of my own self and Sanistra Demonica, were some of my photos edited for a slightly more professional and/or artistic flare. I have applied to become a model for Suicidegirls.com, as a "hopeful", and I hope to be a permanent model for SG.com. I have been bombing two particular threads on the boards constantly with samples of new amateur photos I had taken of myself, by myself, as a means to provide others with SOME form of answer to that little question of their's, "Will there ever be a pre-op transgender woman modeling for SG.com".
And the answer to that question is: YES!!!! I might not be much to look at, or what everyone is looking for as this ideal of a "model", but I have within my own heart the soul of Suicidegirls.com. I am that pre-op transgender WOMAN that is screaming up from the depths of "anti-society" saying that:
"I AM going to brave this world!"
"I AM a woman, whether you like it, or not!"
"I AM beautiful!"
"I WILL be noticed!!"
"I AM a Suicidegirl!!"
The fact that I am a pre-op transgender woman has NOTHING to do with it. It is that I am a woman, and I have the spirit of SG.com coursing through my veins, and I AM beautiful! Maybe not to society as a whole. Maybe not to the majority of men. Maybe not to the majority of "real" women. Maybe not to the majority of other transgender women. Maybe not to MANY different types of people, of MANY different types of life and culture, of an array of philosophies on "what beauty IS". But, damn-it, I AM A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN at least to myself, to some men, to some "real" women, to some other transgender women, to so form of sub-society...and THAT makes ME a Suicidegirl for life!!! Even if I am never chosen to become a "Hopefuls" model, or a permanent Suicidegirls.com model. I at least have the heart and soul of one!!
Some have expressed, since there has yet to be one as of date, that SG hasn't been more welcoming to transgendered hopefuls. Stating that "Hell, excluding women because they were born with testicles (whether or not they still have them) is downright anti-feminist."and (from the same source of the previous statement {who I will keep anonymous}) "What's more alternative or redefining of beauty than rebuilding one's entire physical appearance, demeanor, and identity?" /// "I get that, at its core, SG is a site intended to make money by titillating horny men, but it's also a social movement and including transwomen is absolutely within the spirit of that movement."...These were stated in disappointment that there has, as I said, yet to be a transgender woman on the site. There have been many other statements of similar expressions of disappointment spanning across many other threads and board posts. However, there are rumors (while mentioned that these rumors are also very true), that there has been at least one POST-OP transwoman to have been a model on the site in the past. There are claims that there has been more than one POST-OP transwoman.
Now, I have been a member of Suicidegirl.com since pretty damn close to day one. I have always loved what the site stood for, what it had meant to me personally (and I am not talking about wanking). But the artistry painted and pinned on the bodies of many women braving a "new world" to the point where it has become a sub-pop-cultural revolution. Opening the eyes of the media world-wide to an old form of beauty that was hidden away in the streets of every free-thinking modern society. I fell in love with SG for that very reason. I could personally care less if there had never been ANY transwoman to ever model for SG at any given point of time of its existence, just for that reason alone.
Would I like to see all forms of women portrayed in this revolutionary, and quite legendary, website?
Yes! I most certainly would.
Does Suicidegirls.com still stand for what it had represented in the past, or has it sold itself out to "mainstream media"?
Yes, it still does stand for what it had in the beginning. No, it has not sold itself out, but it did grow with popularity...and for a very good reason! It did not sell itself to "mainstream media", but forced "mainstream media" to redefine itself and broaden its shallow gaze on the world of women of all types. Suicidegirls.com is still quite young and holds a GREAT deal of promise today to continue to stretch the boundaries of society's view of "what is beautiful" and "What a woman should look like". And it is NOT saying that in this age, a woman's beauty is defined by how much ink she has, or how many piercings she has. The soul of Suicidegirls.com has always been the attitude and personality of EVERY woman who is willing to try and brave the world of so-called "beauty" defined by a "social standard". Suicidegirls.com screams out that there is ALWAYS more to a woman's beauty than what society defines. It is ALL these women that do that very thing that are the ever-beating heart and soul of Suicidegirls.com, and it is sound to this very day.
Would I like to see transwomen, both POST-OP and PRE-OP MTF, portrayed in SG.com?
Yes! I most DEFINITELY would!
As a matter of FACT, I have been posting on my own SG.com account, many galleries of various amateur photo shoots of myself! Taken by no more than my iPhone 4. And in some select photos, with the assistance of my own self and Sanistra Demonica, were some of my photos edited for a slightly more professional and/or artistic flare. I have applied to become a model for Suicidegirls.com, as a "hopeful", and I hope to be a permanent model for SG.com. I have been bombing two particular threads on the boards constantly with samples of new amateur photos I had taken of myself, by myself, as a means to provide others with SOME form of answer to that little question of their's, "Will there ever be a pre-op transgender woman modeling for SG.com".
And the answer to that question is: YES!!!! I might not be much to look at, or what everyone is looking for as this ideal of a "model", but I have within my own heart the soul of Suicidegirls.com. I am that pre-op transgender WOMAN that is screaming up from the depths of "anti-society" saying that:
"I AM going to brave this world!"
"I AM a woman, whether you like it, or not!"
"I AM beautiful!"
"I WILL be noticed!!"
"I AM a Suicidegirl!!"
The fact that I am a pre-op transgender woman has NOTHING to do with it. It is that I am a woman, and I have the spirit of SG.com coursing through my veins, and I AM beautiful! Maybe not to society as a whole. Maybe not to the majority of men. Maybe not to the majority of "real" women. Maybe not to the majority of other transgender women. Maybe not to MANY different types of people, of MANY different types of life and culture, of an array of philosophies on "what beauty IS". But, damn-it, I AM A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN at least to myself, to some men, to some "real" women, to some other transgender women, to so form of sub-society...and THAT makes ME a Suicidegirl for life!!! Even if I am never chosen to become a "Hopefuls" model, or a permanent Suicidegirls.com model. I at least have the heart and soul of one!!