Asian women are very pretty. Also, I've never tried olives but they taste awful. No connection between the two.
Warbler, Gaffer explains his reason:
And I want to, for an instant, shake other people out of their comfort zones and cause them to have to think for a second. Sure, many will just laugh at the freak and never stop to consider it, but I hope others will manage to have a moment like mine where they suddenly find themselves thinking in new ways. I'm not trying to "convert" a bunch of gender nonconformist disciples, but I just want people to see something out of the ordinary and consider for just a moment that things can or even should be out of the ordinary.
Whether it has that intended effect upon you (or me) doesn't matter. If it impedes or helps Gaffer in any way, that's his life.
If you started wearing dresses, Warbler, it may not be an improvement in your life. I joked with a friend recently about borrowing her pink parasol. I wasn't quite that brave but it wouldn't be a transformational experience anyways, just a lark, and then I'd be stuck carrying around a parasol. I did relay to her, that "being an ostensibly full-grown man" I'd like to do certain things a man isn't supposed to do - like randomly climb a tree. For the effect of it. So I sort of get Gaffer's intention, though I have no interest in wearing women's clothing. Part of the objection to acting outside of norms is that it is in a way 'immature.' Sort of:
1 Corinthians 13:11 said:
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
We're suppose to be settled and serious, conservative in order to succeed because that's how the world works.
I don't have much of a response to that at the moment, except to conclude with a couple of quotes:
Elwood P. Dowd said:
Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd said:
Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.