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- From: mitchell@seas.smu.edu (Utopium Enterprizes)
- Subject: Re: origins of our real names?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.145512.21400@seas.smu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:55:12 GMT
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- Thus wrote anonymus+3274@godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu (Angela):
- > Just wondering how y'all picked your real names. Is it a
- >masculinization/feminization of your legal name?
-
- Not in my case... though I found something interesting shortly after I chose
- Dora as my name. If I take my male first and middle names (Gary Don) and sub-
- tract from it the letters in Dora, I am left with "gyn". :) So my "handle",
- Dora Gyn, is an acrostic of my male names. I thought it was kind of neat,
- myself. :)
-
- >Did you spend a lot of
- >time thinking about it? Did you already have a name before you CD'd the
- >first time?
-
- No to both of those questions. :) I just have an affinity for Germanic names,
- and Dora sounded pretty. Plus, it does stand out, being an uncommon name in
- the US. But there is an interesting anecdote involving my name. One day, my
- GF was in my room, looking at my bookcase, when she came across a book I had
- read for my freshman rhetoric class. It was called, *Dora: A Case History of
- A Hysteric*, by Freud. It makes one wonder, doesn't it? After all, as my GF
- will testify, I am neurotic... :)
-
- >Have you gone through a series of names/alter egos, or do you
- >dress yourself as different people with different personality traits?
-
- Well, I also go by the name of Rev. Sheldon der Wehr, of the Church of the
- SubGenius. :) And I do see both Sheldon and Dora as having some personality
- traits distinct from Gary's. But I cannot say that they are alter egos,
- either. They're more like... um... goals. :) I imbue them with qualities that
- I want for myself, and over time, I slowly gain the qualities. Make sense? :)
-
- >(I'm not sure that last question really applies in this group, but I was
- >thinking of the post a while back from someone who said he always wanted a
- >horny, masochistic woman, and that's what he became when he dressed.)
-
- Oooooh, where is she? *gets out her flogger* :)
-
- > When I first got an alias and nickname (just a few days ago), my
- >name just popped into my head and immediately felt right. No choosing
- >involved.
-
- Congrats. :) I guess you have a female self that's already decided what she
- wants. ;)
-
- > Also, I want to say that this group is having a most profound
- >effect on me. I'm planning to do things I would have never dreamed of
- >just a few weeks ago. All of you have given me the courage to experiment
- >and try to find out who I really am. What have been vague repressed
- >feelings are now constant, defined thoughts. I feel like a huge weight of
- >guilt and repression have disappeared. I'm starting down a road I
- >wouldn't have dreamed of before, and it's because I've finally found a
- >place where I can talk to people who understand. Thank you, thank you,
- >thank you!
-
- Having friends and sympathizers can help you a LOT. It was only earlier this
- year that I discovered the IRC channel #Crossdress. At the time, I hadn't put
- on more than the occasional pair of pantyhose, in secret. Since then, not only
- have I gone out in public, but I am now buying things for myself, by myself,
- and without any nervousness at all. It's a nice feeling. And I have several
- friends, from #Crossdress, TRANSGEN, CDforum, and other places, to thank. :)
-
- Angela, now that the anonymous service is going down, I hope you'll continue
- to post. If you need anonymity, I am willing to post for you if you will email
- me your articles. My address is below.
-
- *hugs*,
- Dora Gyn
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- Utopium Enterprizes - mitchell@seas.smu.edu
- "Do not mistake my sympathy for understanding; do not accept my understanding
- as sympathy." -- St. Thomas Laine the Abbreviated
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