Re: Eunuch Tshirt?
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:22 am
I think most people feel (or would feel) awkward in the presence of someone who they know to be a eunuch. It's the old problem of not knowing what to do, because society doesn't provide a behavior pattern to follow in situations like that. Of course, having accessed this website for over a year, I know what to do if you encounter a eunuch--just treat him like you would anybody else. But the general public doesn't know that, and I wonder if wearing a T shirt that announced your sex condition, wouldn't be the sort of thing that would be appropriate only in a limited number of situations.
In general, I never wear any clothing with a message or the name of a institution on it. Only time I ever did, was when I had a windbreaker with the seal of the university I attended, on it. Don't even know where it is now. I've always wanted to have a Winsor and Newton windbreaker (lets everybody know you're a would-be artist) but you can't get them any more. You can buy Winsor and Newton artist's smocks.
As to T shirts with a eunuch theme, I don't think many of the ideas in previous posts would actually convey to the general public that one was a eunuch or was a supporter of voluntary eunuchism. M2E is good symbolically, but nobody except a few social scientists and archive members, has any idea what it means. A lot of people would assume it's the name of a rock group. Eu looks like a chemical symbol, and maybe it would be taken for that. Or maybe there are people who can finish a word. M & F, Why not E is one that some people could figure out, most couldn't. Of course, Thank God I'm Castrated is pretty straightforward. I still think windbreakers are better than T shirts for that sort of thing, but they are somewhat more expensive.
Anyway, here are a few possible T shirt messages that come to mind. Most are in the nature of in-jokes that only archive members and other initiates would understand.
Viva il coltello! -- Old cry from opera audiences when a castrato sang a particularly good aria.
Fixed and Proud -- I think an archive member once had that under his avatar.
I had the balls to have an orchiectomy -- That one is self-explanatory.
My sac is empty, but my cups are full -- For somebody with breast development.
Sure I've got balls--they're in a jar on my dresser -- True for some folks, it seems.
Cybele got mine -- You had to be castrated to be a priest of Cybele
Yes, it's empty--but it's also comfortable -- A fact, I guess, for Flo and others.
What I had done, is impossible for a woman, terrifying for a man, and routine for a dog -- Ah, so.
Balls? Mine are on the back of my truck -- Probably where a few have the plastic variety.
I've got the balls of a Byzantine -- For history buffs.
Look, Ma--no balls! -- Would clearly be a shocker for some mamas.
A few nonverbal T shirt designs could be interesting. A picture of an elastrator tool, with the band stretched tight on it, would convey something. Or an image of a scrotum with little wings attached, flying off into the distance. Or a picture of a guy in a hospital gown, with his eyes wide open in shock, as a surgeon reaches under his gown with a scalpel.
In general, I never wear any clothing with a message or the name of a institution on it. Only time I ever did, was when I had a windbreaker with the seal of the university I attended, on it. Don't even know where it is now. I've always wanted to have a Winsor and Newton windbreaker (lets everybody know you're a would-be artist) but you can't get them any more. You can buy Winsor and Newton artist's smocks.
As to T shirts with a eunuch theme, I don't think many of the ideas in previous posts would actually convey to the general public that one was a eunuch or was a supporter of voluntary eunuchism. M2E is good symbolically, but nobody except a few social scientists and archive members, has any idea what it means. A lot of people would assume it's the name of a rock group. Eu looks like a chemical symbol, and maybe it would be taken for that. Or maybe there are people who can finish a word. M & F, Why not E is one that some people could figure out, most couldn't. Of course, Thank God I'm Castrated is pretty straightforward. I still think windbreakers are better than T shirts for that sort of thing, but they are somewhat more expensive.
Anyway, here are a few possible T shirt messages that come to mind. Most are in the nature of in-jokes that only archive members and other initiates would understand.
Viva il coltello! -- Old cry from opera audiences when a castrato sang a particularly good aria.
Fixed and Proud -- I think an archive member once had that under his avatar.
I had the balls to have an orchiectomy -- That one is self-explanatory.
My sac is empty, but my cups are full -- For somebody with breast development.
Sure I've got balls--they're in a jar on my dresser -- True for some folks, it seems.
Cybele got mine -- You had to be castrated to be a priest of Cybele
Yes, it's empty--but it's also comfortable -- A fact, I guess, for Flo and others.
What I had done, is impossible for a woman, terrifying for a man, and routine for a dog -- Ah, so.
Balls? Mine are on the back of my truck -- Probably where a few have the plastic variety.
I've got the balls of a Byzantine -- For history buffs.
Look, Ma--no balls! -- Would clearly be a shocker for some mamas.
A few nonverbal T shirt designs could be interesting. A picture of an elastrator tool, with the band stretched tight on it, would convey something. Or an image of a scrotum with little wings attached, flying off into the distance. Or a picture of a guy in a hospital gown, with his eyes wide open in shock, as a surgeon reaches under his gown with a scalpel.
