[Cyborg]

Originally Posted by TheSkronkDonkey

Thanks for clarifying, but your descriptions are still rather crude. Firstly, I think the idea that Izzy is just "anything" in "a wig and lipstick" is wrong, on multiple levels. You're lazily -- and I would say belligerently -- assuming that a "wig and a lipstick" is all one needs to be an "Izzy". Secondly, you're actually assuming Izzy always necessarily wears a wig and dons lipstick, which I think is false. Thirdly, you're assuming that a wig and lipstick is sufficient for others to attain arousal. If denial of one's own homosexuality is wrong to you, what about accusing others of denying it by trivialising sexual attraction and gender issues in order to make an accusation?

First of all, I do not accuse anyone. Do what you like and have fun because you have every right to do so. But Izzy is not a complex person that requires philosophical polemics: he´s just a boy. All the make-up makes him a drag queen and those are nothing more than men. He might have a very feminine face but his body is definitely masculine and sexual attraction is mostly focused on the body. I was using metaphors when saying "wig and lipstick".

Sex and sexual attraction are states of mind. Even without direct contact between individuals, there is a reciprocity between a person who chooses to appear a certain way and another person who chooses to admire and/or objectify that.

I agree on this but sometimes it´s ambivalent like talking in euphemisms.

If Izzy is simply a boy putting on an "act" -- whatever that actually means -- then I don't see an issue. Nor do I see an issue if she's not a boy who isn't (confusing gender semantics and paradoxes aside!). Some are just seeing Izzy as she presents herself and finding pleasure in that. It doesn't make them conventionally homosexual. We might all be a bit "unconventionally" gay, though! :D

We have a famous actor and entertainer here in Austria called Alfons Haider. He is a man who sometimes dresses up like a woman in his shows and he is also gay. His boyfriend is in a relationship with him because he loves Alfons Haider and not the role he plays when he dresses like a woman. He has no two identities. He is Alfons Haider and everything is a role. Transsexual girls are not playing roles nor do they have different identities. And Izzy is just a boy with a role he enjoys.