kneehighs

On 3/21/2023 at 1:25 PM, mlroseplant said:

Out of the blue, a friend sent me this picture, which was posted by this young man's mother on social media. I have very inexpertly blotted out his face because I don't know any of the people involved, although the post was set to full public. The caption to the photo set read, "[Young man's name] absolutely slayed his senior recital! And in 4 inch heels. He worked so hard and we could not be more proud."

I shall have to find out the back story, but it is encouraging to see. I believe my friend sent me this because doesn't this general style look a little familiar? Only on somebody younger, taller, and better looking than me. This is at a fairly famous music school, too, so this guy is no hack.

Off topic from the most recent thread, but did you ever find out the back story on this?

11 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

The workaround link evidently doesn't work in the U.S., but like a good American, I'm going to offer up my opinion from a position of ignorance. I wouldn't want to break tradition or anything.

I, of course, have no idea what the article says, but what I imagine it says in part is right up my alley. Much of what attracts me to high heels is the athletic challenge, and I alone in my world actually walk in high heels. I cannot say that this practice has done me any harm. In fact, I'd say it's quite the opposite.

I seem to remember another guy who walked several km in high heels pretty much every day. I want to say he was from Oz, but my memory is fuzzy. Perhaps a former member here?

Any chance you have a parental control setting on your wifi? Or some kind of safety setting? The archive.ph often doesn't work in that situation.

2 hours ago, Shyheels said:

Alas I couldn’t read it without creating an account . It looks like an interesting article from the very brief glimpse I had before the firewall went up 

https://archive.ph/YNoUy

Now that Bitcoin is starting to gain attention again, if anyone has time to read this article it makes the strongest case that Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is Len Sassaman.

I'd bet money on it. Satoshi's online footprint and Len's peaked at the same hours of the day, they both spoke the same kind of British english, Satoshi made reference to Euros too.

And most importantly, Len roomed in San Francisco with the creator of Bit Torrent, Bram Cohen. Bram started an online Peer-to-Peer marketplace called Mojo Nation. Mojo Nation was powered by "Mojo" coins. It collapsed due to hyper inflation. 

Thankfully, Bitcoin has the 21 Million limit in supply forever. I wonder why?

https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10

Diverse series of comments from this Instagram post

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1m1Nf2sRc5/

On 8/11/2017 at 9:36 AM, kneehighs said:

Blockchain is happening folks, for real: http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/08/10/institutional-investors-move-bitcoin-ethereum

Goldman Sachs: “Whether or not you believe in the merit of investing in cryptocurrencies (you know who you are), real dollars are at work here and warrant watching,” Goldman Sachs said according to Bloomberg."

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), US’s biggest options exchange, is to soon offer bitcoin options and futures trading following an agreement with Gemini Trust after CFTC approved Ledger X for clearing derivatives on July 24th.

 

How times have changed, eh? I gotta laugh at the comments that mocked Bitcoin.

All the people in this thread mocking what Black Rock and Fidelity are selling to their clients. For what it's worth, I doubt these clients even fully understand Bitcoin. The sales call, if one even occurs, probably goes something like "BlackRock here. Larry has a new ETF. He wants to get you to 1%.  It's our best performing ETF in history. $5B of inflows in 5 weeks." Client "Do it". Click

Imagine fading Bitcoin now. Ethereum also has ETF's coming in May. So it'll get a bid too. 

https://x.com/thomas_fahrer/status/1757905177196298331?s=20

Here's a good article on the recent history of heels for men on the runway.  It's from V MAN which was a reputable status symbol before social media took over in fashion. I'm sure many here will exclaim "gasp, how ugly and disgusting" per usual....

https://vmagazine.com/article/the-mens-heel-renaissance/

For anyone interested in dabbling with crypto, Feb/March 2024 are probably the last great buying opportunity before the Golden Bull run starts.  

I expect Bitcoin to break it's 69K All Time High price sometime in Q3-Q4 2024

For me, I will start shaving profits once BTC clears 80K. Many will get caught in the euphoria stage thinking price will skyrocket to $250K etc. It won't. 

Remember, buy the fear and sell the greed.  My top measures for Greed will be

1.  Coinbase is number one downloaded app on app store

2.  Mainstream celebrities start promoting crypto en masse (Katie Perry 2017, Giselle and Tom 2021)

3.  YouTube influencers also start promoting worthless projects en masse

4.   Parabolic Open Interest.   If OI is going up faster than spot, then there's a risk for at least a local top

https://coinalyze.net/category-all_excluding_btc_and_eth/open-interest/

5.  Meme Coin Mania. When coins like Shiba or DOGE start doing 10,000% gains in 1-2 months, it's likely over

11 hours ago, Shyheels said:

I’d agree with you on the probability front. In fact I’d call life a crap shoot. Faster and more furious than poker.

I'm fully in agreement with Epictetus.

And if course there are different ways of reckoning wealth. I have very few assets and little money but I have also had quite a remarkable life in terms of travel and unusual experiences. I’ve seen a hell of a lot of the world and have a rich stock of memories. Sure, you can’t eat memories but I’ve not missed many meals and since the final result for all of us is the same, I’d just as soon have the memories over the money.

 

 

My grandma filled out a "get to know me" book when she was old. She remarked she would have traveled more if she could have changed anything about the way she lived.  Was it because she was a woman and loves to spend $$$$? 😂, I think it's a common theme among the elderly actually. 

As you were a photographer I can assume you had exclusive access to a lot of cool experiences. Well done!

On 11/17/2023 at 2:55 PM, Shyheels said:

I totally agree - although in the world of creatives where neither increased net worth nor income is a likely outcome to one’s endeavours, the surest way to freedom is to work out ingenious ways of reducing your wants and needs and learning how to live on the juice of a cracker. And be satisfied. 

"Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants" Epictetus

On 11/17/2023 at 4:34 PM, Bubba136 said:

Natural human traits are:  food on the table, clothing on our back and a roof over our head— and a woman for warmth and comfort.  Investing and financial management are learned.  Others, like yourself, find investing and converting/growing assets as a vocation that quickly acquires all of the characteristics a “game.” Once it becomes a game, it’s a “Gamble.”  Eighty percent of the world’s population are content with “going-along ‘coming along.” Satisfied with life as they have it.  

After my “required retirement,” I was afforded, along with a situation I Inherited, sufficient income to raise a family and have very comfortable life.  Having no desire to remain inactive, and by chance, falling into a situation whereby I accidentally found a vocation that I could enjoy participating in, I chose to invest in reconstructing financially failing businesses rather than investing in the stock market.

Nothing is “Forever.”  Life, anyway you look at it, is a crapshoot.  The bottom line— take what you have and be satisfied or try to make it better. It’s your choice.

"The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all."  Ecclesiastes 9:11

I always tell people life is more like a game of poker than a game of chess.  Why? Because in chess you can see all possible outcomes.  In poker, decisions are based on uncertainty and incomplete information. So life is like a game of probabilities.

1 hour ago, Bubba136 said:

Flapping my gums.  ;-  please don’t take my response as criticism.  I was relating my personal experience.  The psychological aspect/question as to “why” we engage in this practice is always present.  I recognize that each individual has their own unique circumstances and each of us must follow our own curiosity to a point we are satisfied with what we have learned. Or just accept the situation without further thought.  Seeking an explanation or reason can be exceedingly frustrating.  I found it to be.  And, as a result, I chose to accept my desire it is and not to chase any further explanation.

I appreciate your sensitivity to feelings of being criticized.  The secondary explanation provides a lot more context.  

1 hour ago, flavio said:

After all those years trapped in "men's" clothes and shoes, I started my transition to clothes and shoes I want to dress, in my daily life, about 2 years ago. I regret not being able to do so before with a feeling of lost time, but it's part of who I am.

I think it's important to understand yourself, having names or accronims to put you in one of the "boxes" society has created makes it easier to some individuals.

If it's the case for you, you're not doing harm to anyone else, your partners and the ones you love to have around are ok with you, go for it, live your life, be what you want to be, smile, move forward.

I have "crossdressed" before, it was good. Dressing as a regular man, feels ok too.

Dressing as I want to dress - that's premium. Mixing "women's" and "men's" wardrobe is just amazing for me, makes me feel alive.

I don't have a name of acronym to describe what I am. Some say non-binary. I can live with that. But I'll always be Flavio.

It's always good to read you kneehighs.

Keep safe,

Flavio

 

Good to see you around Flavio. For me, autogynephilia clarified some of my motivations.  Made it easier to explain to my dates etc.  

19 minutes ago, Bubba136 said:

This entire subject is,in my mind, a waste of time.  Granted, there is a number of individuals afflicted with sexual confusing situations with a burning desire to unravel and understand the “why” they are the way they are, I am not one of them. 

Way back in my younger days, when I was still questioning my desire to wear “girls shoes,” I did have a curiosity as to why this desire was so strong.  In my early teens, after many hours of research in the school library and becoming more confused with the explanations, I decided that this was a condition I was never going out grow and that the desire would never go away, I would just have to accept it because it was to strong to ignore.  Besides I was beginning to understand that wearing “girls shoes” and high heels 👠 was just a natural part of my nature.

It was at this point that I made up my mind that I would accept that this was the way I was constructed and would never again try to quit.  I understood that there were situations where I could not wear my heels but would wear them whenever possible.

As far as crossdressing, I did try crossdressing a few times (one time with disastrous consequences).  However, the process was so tedious, choosing garments and doing makeup and then undoing it, too me, wasn’t worth doing. I strictly stick to wearing only stockings and occasionally a garter belt because, in my opinion, high heels require stockings.

If it's a waste of time then why did write a wall of text for an answer

I agree with you about "women's aesthetics" being relative to time, space, and culture.  Femininity as distinct from the female sex. This is literally the old "nature versus nurture" debate that has run in psychology for decades.

I do think if we lived in a world where 2 buttons on a coat was for women and 1 button was for men, autogynephiles would want the coat with 2 buttons.  

52 minutes ago, Shyheels said:

I read your thread.  Most of it goes straight over my head and indeed the chances of my investing in crypto are precisely nil. Mind you, the chances of my investing in anything are precisely nil - one first requires capital and that’s a detail I’ve never quite been able to iron out…

Ah, thanks for tolerating my journey to competency.  Building net worth seems to be a skill most people are challenged with. Society teaches us to get income, but the reality is net worth creates more freedom in terms of time and money than income from a job.  It really requires an open mind and deprogramming what our parents and older generations handed down to us.  (Unless one is lucky to grow up in a family that taught entrepreneurism or investing as a skill).

I don't know if anyone is actually reading this thread. I view it more as a diary, since it displays all my flaws in market thinking back to the 2017 bull run as well as gains.

For this coming cycle, I see $KAS as a really solid bet. Why?

1. No preallocation. When most new tokens are launched now, they pre-allocate to the founders. Or they premine. Or they raise money through Venture Capitalists which guarantees a pump, but also a dump by the VC's when their vesting period expires.  KAS was launched fair. No pre-allocation, no ICO, no premine.  This is huge.

2. The fair launch minimizes regulatory risk.  No centralized authority creates singular point of failure. 

3. It's a Proof of Work Coin like Bitcoin. Not Proof of Stake.

4. Also, KAS has outperformed Bitcoin over the last year (826%), month (121%), and week (38%).  

5. It's a large cap token, relative to the crypto economy. Large caps maintain less risk than small caps. 

5. End of cycle target is $3-5

6.  A 20X from here could be had. That's 2000% ROI.  Means if you invest 1K USD, it could be 20K USD at end of cycle. Naturally, you are smart and will taking profits on the way up

4 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

I think there was only one time, and that was only because a salesman at some Big Box store approached me from the back, and I had long hair at the time. I remember having no real reaction to it one way or the other. I do remember thinking to myself, "Dude, quit apologizing. It's not that big of a deal."

I notice there is no category for wishing to move like a woman, which is entirely different from "having a woman's body" or "having a woman's bodily functions." Then again, not just any woman will do when it comes to finding motion in the physical world attractive. I have been trying for quite some time to adjust my walk to my preference, with some amount of success. This carries over somewhat to my construction life as well.

Maybe that would be classified as behavioral?

40 minutes ago, mlroseplant said:

I have always said that since I find women attractive, why wouldn't I want to emulate them? It is quite true that I have never tried going full "dress," or even close to it. I suppose if I were younger, I might see things a little differently.

Pretty much the same sentiment here.  My emulation goes to the specific wardrobe style of girls I'm most attracted to: classic and preppy.  So yes, I dress to be attracted to myself, to a certain degree.

I think I remember reading a post of yours where you mentioned in your younger years people mistook you for the opposite sex? Was that euphoric for you?

8 hours ago, pebblesf said:

PS:  I guess I am "sartorial"...

Cool.  One can use the Lover Archetype to define it.  The Lover Archetype makes the autogynephilia more understandable.  

2 hours ago, HappyinHeels said:

Good topic. Whilst a love of heeled fashion is the common link among us the spectrum indeed extends beyond just footwear. Whether mixing certain articles like wedge sandals and a handbag with bootcut jeans and a polo shirt to go shopping or dressing fully en femme to visit some city friends or attend an outdoor wedding this experience is thoroughly relaxing and exhilarating at the same time. It’s simply a way to create another canvas. Some write or paint or play sports. I do all three of those, spend time outdoors and know what’s edible and to make use of what’s around me. But I also adore women’s fashion. Dresses,skirts, skinny jeans, wedge heels, pumps and boots, nail color, women’s watches and rings and makeup it all interests me. And none of it makes me gay nor on the road to some surgical solution. Women don’t have to check a box nor justify why they wear what they wear they just do it. As I’ve said before we are here for a limited engagement so we had better enjoy as much of it as we can. HinH

Interesting. Full en femme only appeals to me in private settings when a girl is treating me like her "Barbie". Beyond that, it has zero appeal to me. 

1 hour ago, pebblesf said:

I think this is great indeed.  Helps differentiate the various interests...  Can help to dissolve foolish stereotypes as well

Yeah, everyone has a different motivation for wearing heels for sure. 

1 hour ago, Shyheels said:

I simply like the styling of some, but by no means all, types of high heels. It’s no more complicated than that, at least not in my case. There’s a certain pleasure in flouting convention, but that pleasure has nothing to do with the fact that heels are perceived to be feminine. In my case it is more a kind of schoolboy delight in breaking some arbitrary rule - and a defiant self expression. In addition of course to the cool styling 

Are you familiar with Jung's 12 emotional archetypes?  Nike's use of the Hero Archetype phrase "Just Do It" (hero), the US Army "Be All You Can Be (hero), Star Wars (good vs evil, hero). Archetypes transcend socioeconomic and geographic cultures.  "The Rebel archetype personifies defiance, nonconformity and a desire for change. Rebels challenge the established norms and conventions, usually pursuing some form of justice or freedom."  I'd say that's you!  

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"Autogynephilia (AGP) is a sexual interest in feminine embodiment. "Auto" refers to the self, "gyne" refers to femininity, and "philia" refers to love. AGP can be thought of as a sexual orientation which, like other sexual orientations, can lead to strong emotions and sentiments which resemble those of conventional love in some people."  

There are 5 types of autogynephilia, according to Phil Illy. 

• Anatomic AGP—having a woman’s body
• Sartorial AGP—donning women’s fashion
• Behavioral AGP—behaving like a woman
• Physiologic AGP—having a woman’s bodily functions
• Interpersonal AGP—socially being a woman

Surprised this topic hasn't received any attention here over the last 2 decades. I brought up in the topic "Autogynephilia in women" in the For Everybody section.  Here's a link to a popular book Men Trapped In Men's Bodies.

I know for me, I'm mildly autogynephilic.  Specifically sartorial (80%) and anatomical (20%). My autogynephilia is secondary to my heterosexuality though. My AGP is about 20% of my sex drive maximum while my heterosexuality is 80% minimum.

Ultimately, the closer I can get to embodying the femininity of the women I sexually desire, the more aroused I become.  For me, there's a definite sensual and erotic motivation to having my body hair laser removed, wearing heels, wearing perfume and basically dressing exactly like a woman I find visually attractive.  

Yet, I've never fantasized about transitioning MTF. Nor have I ever fantasized about being with a man.  I'm very direct with my partners (and current partner, singular) about my AGP.  Almost all are supportive. 

What's your opinion, good or bad, about autogynephilia?

2 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

Race car driver, eh? You know, Jerry was a race car driver. At least, that's what my son tells me. My son is into Primus. I risked nothing to tell you that little tidbit of information, it is true.

Dr1819 was a small airplane pilot.

admirer5577 was also a small airplane pilot

Paul Duane rides motorcycles

I wonder if there is a correlation between cis men wearing heels and risky transportation sports

4 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

And he definitely walks better than Mark Bryan. Or me, for that matter, despite my best efforts.

If you look him up on Facebook by his real name Klaus Vemmer, he used to be a race car driver. So he has something in common with Bryan. 

Unfortunately, according to his Linked In, they only sold 30 pairs of heels.

I give him credit. He risked time and money and it didn't work. Speaks more than some guys here who offer risk free arm chair opinions.  

The golden bull run of 2024/2025 is coming soon.

Liquidity cycles, presidential cycles and the Bitcoin Halving all lining up simultaneously.  Add in simultaneous approval of Bitcoin ETF's and Black Rock ETH ETF, and we are well on our way to peak Euphoria. No buyer demand for US 30 year Treasury. Dollar will lose globally currency reserve status starting 2030, imho. Putin and EuraAsia see it. EU and US? Not so much yet.

I'll be shaving Bitcoin profits in segments, starting at 80k, 99k, and letting the rest run

If you invest in alt coins, make sure to reduce risk by finding coins that have outperformed Bitcoin. This reduces risk and maximizes reward.  Leading narratives this cycle will be gaming, AI, and tokenized Real World Assets (Rolex's are being traded on chain now. Eventually real estate will also be traded as NFT's because crypto automates the labor intensive paper work process inherent in real estate transactions).

See you on Lake Como in my heels!

On 1/18/2020 at 8:33 PM, kneehighs said:

Shout out to the designer Laurentin Cosmos, who actually has "skin in the game".  

http://90c515c419.testurl.ws/laurentin/

 

The forum has covered Laurentin Cosmos before. 

Here is a link to his instagram: https://www.instagram.com/be.laurentin/

6 minutes ago, Jkrenzer said:

Not exactly heels and very staged.

then go find some better examples yourself and post them here