For All Your Cross-Dressing Needs

You see, Mr Alme feels “very uncomfortable” if he doesn’t have “an outlet” for his “need to sit in a wheelchair.” That’s sitting in a wheelchair while dressed as a woman, adorned with make-up and painted nails, and while feigning disability. Just so we’re clear on this.

When asked by his wife whether this behaviour is a fetish, he replied, somewhat coyly, “Maybe so.” Our facilitator of sensitivity also tells us that he feels “a lot of excitement” when buying himself ladies’ shoes, particularly “shoes with high heels.” Indeed, Mr Alme boasts an extensive collection.

Because wheelchair and heels, obviously.

The idea that one’s bizarre and rather elaborate sexual kinks – including wheelchairs and cross-dressing – probably shouldn’t be inflicted on random strangers, on work colleagues, and on one’s own children, of which he is the father of two, appears to have escaped him.

Oh, there’s more. Better bring a stiff drink.

7 Replies to “For All Your Cross-Dressing Needs”

He should run for office where he would fit right in.

There is no way to view this individual without concluding that they are desperately mentally ill. In the past, I would feel pity and sympathy for the individual and hope that they got better in the future.

The media, on the other hand is a different story. You can find a wealth of articles relating this story including “Newsweek.” The Newsweek article goes to great lengths to label this mentally ill character a “she.” This man dresses up in women’s clothes, pretends to be paralyzed, relieves himself in public and admits that it is a sexual thrill. He tells stories about how this all goes back to elementary school when another student showed up wearing a splint on his leg and he became infatuated. And, still, Newsweek bends over backwards to patronize this man.

Newsweek is encouraging mental illness in that patronization. And, think about the basis for the articles surrounding this man. What is the draw? Why is it newsworthy. If this is “normal” and acceptable in our culture, why highlight it at all? Well, because the fact that they are reporting it suggests outlier behavior. It suggests something unusual. It suggests that the media does, indeed, know that these sorry sacks are mentally ill, and are exploiting that human interest aspect while simultaneously doing nothing to suggest there is anything wrong with the behavior. The very fact this is “news” is a contradiction. And, I find the pronoun infatuated media partially responsible for the encouragement of mental illness. It is equivalent to standing behind someone on the Golden Gate bridge and trying to convince them to jump.

“…probably shouldn’t be inflicted on random strangers, on work colleagues, and on one’s own children, of which he is the father of two, appears to have escaped him.”

Well, what fun is it if you can’t make everyone else squirm and look away?