Subject: Cross-dressers
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1991-01-24, 10:29
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

For some reason I'm really curious about why Dennis/Denise
finds women's clothes "relaxing" considering that the women
I know all feel that standard feminine garb is the opposite of
relaxing.   
 
I've developed 4 theories so far:
 
1) perhpas the male role makes him tense for some reason and a female
identity frees him from that tension.
 
2) perhaps keeping his mind occupied with trivial concerns like keeping  
his knees together, balancing on heels and keeping his hose on
straight distracts him from more disturbing obsessions and worries.
 
3) perhaps he grew up with strong female models of behaviour and few
if any male role models so he knows how women should act but does not
know how to act as a male so acting like a male is a constant effort  
whereas acting like a woman is familiar, easy and relaxing.  
 
4) perhaps as a man he is aware of the 'power' women have to cloud
men's minds and he wants to add that power to his arsenal of effective
weapons in his work. He is already a physically powerful, trained and
armed FBI agent, but perhaps being sexually desirably to the men he
works with makes him feel even more powerful and therefore more relaxed
and confident.
 
Just theories. I'm not really very confident about any of them. Feel
free to jump in with other suggestions. For some reason I am really
very curious about cross-dressing.  
 
a.h.