OK, you guys who like to wear women's clothing. Do you prefer to be called a cross-dresser or a transvestite? Please put your response in the comment box below.
We ask because of the first international cross-dressing -- or transvestite -- beauty pageant, which was held in Bangkok, Thailand.
As reported in the Manila Times, Thai college student Treechada Petcharat, 19, beat off 23 other competitors and won the title of Miss International Queen.
Other beauty pageants held in Thailand are the Jumbo Queen contest (no explanation needed, eh?), the Miss Spinster contest (for single women 28 and older) and the Miss Air Hostess competition coming next month.
Coincidentally, Thailand was until 1939 called Siam. which was the setting for "The King and I," which according to Thai folks was a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. And here's the thing: "Travesty" sounds like "transvestite," if you say the latter really fast and kind of slur it as though you'd been drinking.
So you see, it's all connected.

Posted at November 08, 2004 11:24 AM