What is a shemale?

The shemale is not a "specialty" of Thailand. The first shemale became famous in Singapore. At that time, just seeing the word "shemale" was enough to lure people to Singapore. There is no doubt that shemale has made Singapore's tourism more developed. Later, Singapore's economic position in Asia was second only to Japan. At this time, the glamorous name of the shemale spread. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew thought it was humiliating, so he ordered the shemale to leave. Therefore, they (about gender) are still marked as "male" on their ID cards, and there is no other suitable pronoun to use "them" or "them", and no one can tell. But I prefer to use "they", which is their wish after all. ) to Thailand, especially Pattaya and Bangkok.

A shemale is a transsexual. The first night in Thailand was watching a shemale show at Lido Theatre in Bangkok. The tour guide called them "artificial women", which was a joke, and "shemale" was slightly derogatory. The most neutral word is "the second woman" to distinguish it from natural women, but in fact, the gender column of the shemale's ID card is marked with "male", male and female, but it is not disguised as a woman. Regardless of physiology, no matter what kind of eyes others look at, they regard themselves as a beautiful and pure woman, and they are women. In Thailand alone, there are more than 300,000 people who want to abruptly reverse the laws of nature and break the contract with normality (introduction by tour guides, for reference only).

Lido shemale song and dance theater is not big. It was already seven o'clock when we arrived, and the last performance had just ended. Outside the theater, the Little Square was crowded with tourists from all over the world who left or entered. It may be a holiday, but most of them are the faces of compatriots. In addition to these tourists, there are more than a dozen "girls" with heavy makeup and colorful colors standing in a loose circle-this is the famous shemale. They are taking pictures with tourists. It's very cheap, twenty baht, which is only equivalent to four dollars. Bright white light flashes from time to time in the square, which is the flash of tourists' cameras. Tonight, all the cameras are aimed at them. It's amazing! The word flashed through my mind. Yes, more like a woman than a woman. The face with careful makeup is tender and charming, taller than the average girl, probably because of the perennial injection of female hormones, and the skin is fair and smooth. But somehow, there are many black spots on a person's back.

Before entering the cinema, we were told that we could take pictures in the cinema, but it was forbidden to take pictures. Because this involves copyright, I want to see the genuine VCD, which costs 500 baht next to the cinema.

The program is nothing more than singing and dancing, similar to CCTV's annual Spring Festival Evening, but the atmosphere inside and outside the venue is equally warm. Everyone knows the specialty of actors-charming women are all men. There are even funny programs like China's sketches interspersed in the middle. The clown is a fat and ugly woman (also played by a shemale), humming a Huangmei tune (recorded backstage) and jumping around on the stage with a kale. This stage has a step leading to the aisle under the stage. She went over and invited the audience to "interact" with her, probably because she was ugly and because of the mystery of the shemale, everyone dared not avoid it. But she suddenly jumped off the stage, hugged a young man who was giggling, kissed him hard and ran away. Everyone burst into laughter. One of them is said to be a reserved program of shemale, which was completed by one person. She is wearing a strange suit: a black suit for men on the left and a charming dress for women on the right. At this time, the lights of the audience dimmed, and she Shimada Hanzo was on the stage in the curtain, half exposed to the audience. In this way, she sang love songs alternately in male and female voices, which made people think that two different men and women were performing on it. In fact, the reason why this mixed-sex program becomes a reserved program is very clear. This is the "shemale"-the third sex that is different from men and women in the natural sense, and even makes people think of earthworms on the ground unrealistically.

For the artificial transformation of the natural human body-just like the bonsai in China, we are not very strange, and it is easy to find two kinds of "human pets": one is the eunuch; The second one is a three-inch golden lotus. But in fact, these are not as good as shemale. People who "make" eunuchs and three-inch golden lotus are absolutely insane or abnormal. If you continue to think that shemale is a pervert, you are wrong. These people are just a little different from ordinary people psychologically or physically, and they are not satisfied with their gender orientation; Or they can't bear all kinds of pressures brought by modern society, so they lack men's self-confidence and tend to be feminine psychologically, so that their spirit will not collapse. Modern society pays more attention to the development of material civilization, but ignores humanistic care and construction. Religion cannot solve all kinds of social problems and modern psychological alienation. In Thailand, most people believe in Buddhism, and it is Hinayana Buddhism, which is different from Buddhism in China. It can only ferry itself and save itself. In Thailand, if a monk feels that his roots are not clean, he can return to the secular world, get married and have children. Therefore, it is not surprising that Buddha and shemale coexist. The key is to look at the inclusive scale of a society.

Among these songs and dances, the most touching thing is that the shemale shows her beauty. The shemale was beautifully dressed, charming and gorgeous, and walked off the stage like a model, and the audience was shocked. How beautiful! Everyone can't help but marvel. A group member next to me stuck out his tongue and said that if they were allowed to stand with real women, it would be the former-a second kind of woman more like a woman. In each row, the audience with cameras stood up consciously, scrambling to aim the camera at them-their faces, their breasts, their waists and even a smile, all solidified into eternal photos. Even those in the back row can't wait to rush to the front and squat to take pictures. And they also smiled and posed the cutest, no, most beautiful posture for them to enjoy. Just like a beautiful and gorgeous flower, it makes men get carried away. I didn't know they were as masculine as themselves. Women are jealous, but their eyes linger on them. Maybe they already know that everything around them is artificial, and no matter how beautiful it is, it can't compare with natural beauty. I am very excited. It's beautiful! At that moment, I almost had the urge to love them! Really. Not only because of the almost perfect curves, but also because of their beauty in front of the camera, which is exactly what they want to show to the world. Does this desire for the value of beauty to be recognized by the audience implicitly express their desire for social recognition and tolerance?

The life span of a shemale is not long, and it will never exceed fifty, maybe thirty or forty years old. Because of perennial surgery and hormone injection, their bodies have also suffered fatal injuries. Maybe this punishment is the price. They are gorgeous, but their youth is also very short, which can be said to be an abnormal overdraft of life, so they age faster than ordinary people, and their old age is miserable. The tour guide said that they would have lesions inside their bodies and rot from the inside out. The shemale with a big black spot on his back that I saw in the square before is probably a sign, right? But they just want to show their best, thinking that one's life will come to an end one day. As long as they are happy, what's the harm of missing the last few years? The most important thing is to have a beautiful youth!

They are still dancing in front of the audience's camera, releasing all this unparalleled but strange beauty, unrestrained and extremely free and natural. Although there is still half of the performance, the atmosphere of the audience has reached its climax. Maybe performance is their life, or they live a life of performance, releasing a beautiful life of performance. I am even a little jealous of them, because at this moment they can release their own pressure and their own beauty, which is what modern people long for. Instead, we can only keep the pressure of society deep in our hearts. Over time, even a pure heart will be abandoned.

I don't remember when it ended, and I don't remember when I returned to Little Square after it ended. Beautiful transvestites also come through the back door. Under the stage, they are still dazzling, and more people take photos with them, while they are holding a small photo tip in their hands. One is very beautiful, dressed in red, with a huge collar, blooming like a lotus leaf and a rose, wrapping her bare low chest in a flower heart. I watched intently, and she found out, smiled at me, showing her teeth like stars. The sweet smile in shyness almost made my heart beat again. It suddenly occurred to me that a poem by Boland Lyle, "Flowers of Evil".

The flower of evil looks beautiful, too

According to a lady who won many laurels in a shemale beauty contest, the most impressive thing in her life was that she had a boyfriend who chased her and didn't know she was a shemale for about half a year. Her neighbor sympathized with him and didn't want him to indulge, so she once took the opportunity to show the boy his ID card, only to be surprised: for more than half a year, she didn't know she was a man! I don't want to disappear for three weeks and then come back for her. He came back because he said he couldn't leave her. Later, the boy married another girl, and Fu also attended the wedding, laughing at each other and expressing his feelings of missing each other. (Note: The quotation comes from the translation of "New Semimonthly" in Thailand)

No matter what glasses you wear to look at them, whether they are people or "demons", they have really promoted Thailand's tourism economy and made their own contributions to this not-so-rich country. What is the difference between this and ordinary people?