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Originally Posted by Columbine
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.
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and where do you stand?
and more importantly, where do you think Japanese society stands on the topic, generally?