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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
If you go into Donki, along with the usual costumes, you'll find costumes made for men that are like school girl outfits that come with wigs and stuff. It's supposed to be funny, but I don't get it. Not saying my humor is better, but I can't see the funniness.
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It's a certain brand of humour and a certain brand of people that really work it I guess. The UK at least has had not a few celebrity transvestites (Lily Savage, Eddie Izzard, Dame Edna etc), or even women who were famous for dressing androgynously like Katherine Hepburn or that crazy model. And it's a comedy staple of pantomime, theatre, charity fun runs and Rugby club pub crawls.
Ask anyone who goes to and enthuses over Rocky Horror; it's hilarious to see a guy wear women's lingerie, funny-horrible if he does it badly and downright impressive if he does it well.
It's a kind of performance art; not to everyone's taste, but on a similar line to Hard Gay. It's shock value to a degree. Some people find Lady Gaga inspirational, some find her bafflingly ridiculous. Some people are fans of transvestite celebrities, others want to vomit at the very idea. *shrug* c'est la vie.