Becky's T-Blog

Monday, July 21, 2008

If it looks like a girl...

I might as well face it, I'm seen as the James Randi of Tranny Fakers. People always come to me when they find someone on Flickr who's pretending to be an amazingly passable tranny when they're just, well, not. Maybe I should put up a £1M prize for anyone who can successfully prove that they're not faking their pics when they look 100% passable. But I don't have the confidence or, to be honest, the funds.

A friend put me on to another one today, the first for a while.

Epigoth's profile claims "I'm an 18 year old GUY from the UK". And so commenters are saying stuff along the lines of "OMG I can't believe you're not a genetic girl! You look so femme!"

To those people I say, remember the famous Duck Test...

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

Vic A fiver to anyone who can prove they CAN see an Adam's apple.

Suomy Nona I'm surprised nobody has come up with a search engine that performs pattern matching for an array of pixels' RGB values, in the same way that it's possible to search for phrases.

I've heard a few too many cases of people having their photos 'borrowed' and misattributed, re-captioned, doctored or otherwise misused. (By Transformation in their promotional material, f'instance.)

How's a real girl going to feel about having her likeness copied and described as a tranny? Not that I know anything about Epigoth, but it's happening all too often.

Alli' Cat' I find the 'time' test useful:
1) Make a note of the Noob.
2) Look them up in about six months time.

Usually, one of three things will have happened:
1) Pictures will have dried up because they've run out of source material to steal.
2) The account has been deleted by Flickr-pol.
3) They're still active and consistent; in which case, maybe, just maybe...

Joanna So you're saying she's a duck?

There was Polar Rose which supposed to be a face recognition search thing for Firefox, but I'm not very impressed and I think it would probably return Avril Lavigne in this case....

sophie h I do hope youre not quacking up Becky.
Remember its best to be like a duck.
Calm on the surface, but paddling like hell underneath.

:o)

I dont go alot on the facial recognition progams. For examples of their fallabilities see my flickr profile page. Apparently Im 80% like so japenese actress.

:o/

Gillian I dunno, but occams razor applied here would seem to indicate pavlovs dog is not drooling until you look inside the box.

Actually I only posted to say I snorted tea at Jo's comment.

Gillian and another thing! from your sponsored ads

http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/03/12/french_maid_pc_mod_oo_la_la.html

wtf!!

Pandora Caitiff Her MySpace claims she is 5'11", so when (if?) a full length picture surfaces, it should be fairly easy to compare the girl in the pics with the girl on paper.

The photostream is definitely tingling my Spidey senses :)

And Gillian, watch what you're doing with those "box" jokes, I hear enough of them as it is!

Karol Cross I tend to instinctively follow Ali's approach.

Although the thing that always makes me suspicious is a lack of photos. As we all know, trannies are addicted to photos, to capturing that instant when they appear as female as they can (well I am anyway).

So any self professed trannie who only has 6 photos immediately gets a black mark in my book I'm afraid. And two black marks if all the photo's they have are from the same shoot or time period. Six photo's taken over a period of time is harder to fake then a 5 minute download of someones last shoot.

At the end of the day though, its just sad and pointless in I would suggest equal measures. I think faking it, shows the person has a lot of personal issues which they need to deal with, which I imagine is not a very good place to be.

Sonia I think this all plays up to the tranny desire of looking like the perfect woman.

I can't generalize, but instead of dressing up I WISH I could press a button and BE a woman, or put on a magic woman suit, and have real female parts...

But that, we know, is not possible. So what is the next thing to desire ? Via makeup, surgeries, or pure nature luck, to look as close as possible to a woman.

So trannies WANT TO BELIEVE that someone who claims to be another TG and looks 100% like a woman, is a genetic male. Because that gives us all hope :-)

"The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself is the best lie of all." Preem Palver

transfattyacid I'm not sure on this one. The photos look pretty photoshopped - the adams apple test might not work, and we aonly get a glimpse of the hand - which looks a little large. But then the skinniness of the arms might have something to do with that.

As for the duck test, it is a slightly dangerous weapon. There are plenty of women that look like men (trannys) so it might not be that reliable.

Angell Unless its a baby duck and then they make cute little meep meep noises. Ah - I like the baby ducks best.

nick you look a very convincing t-girl , if they are photoshopped i'm sure its only slightly, - col blog.

Anonymous Whilst of course there are a lot of fakers out there.. there are some genuinely amazing and passable young tgirls out there... especially those that have not turned into angry, bitchy old hags because they have hidden their trans-issues away for 40 years, and in the meantime gathered a wife and kids.

You rarely find them on tranny forums too, where the usual debate of trains, 'when did you tell your wife?' and whether 'that miniskirt' looks ok on a frumpy middle aged bloke is hardly stimulating conversation!

Anonymous 99% of these people , never have any camera details showing..

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Never say never Non Non Photography Day again

Yep, it's that time of year again. July 17th is your day to fight the evil that is Non Photography Day by participating in the far less po-faced and up-itself Non Non Photography day.

The plan is the same as always:

1) Take your camera with you on July 17th and snap as many pictures as possible all day. 2) Post them to the Flickr group.

Hopefully we'll completely undo the dent that the non-photographers want to make in the day, in fact with any luck there'll be even more pictures taken that day that there would have been normally!

Jenny Harvey I would declare that every single day should be Non Pointless Contrived Theme Day.

Just to clarify non non photography day. Is taking one photo that day enough or do I have to constantly snap. I may need more batteries

Rachel god! Is it that time of year again!?!

sophie h Well Becky, cameras charged and in my coat pocket ready, all Ive got to do now is remember to take some photos. :o)

Pandora Caitiff Pssst, Becky!

"Uploads to the group pool have been disabled."

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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Hair apparent

It has been noted in the past that fellow blogger and fellowette tranny Lauren Close (now how can I put this?) wears her hair somewhat like me.

It's in fact exactly the same shade, the same style, and the same length. It's almost as if she gets her hair styled in the same place that I do. Or something.

This is purely accidental, of course, and even if it wasn't, it's not like I own the copyright on that hairstyle. Although as Lauren discovered for herself last weekend, there are pitfalls to coiffurial verisimilitude.

I've long thought that maybe trannies need to have the equivalent of the Clown Egg Register, to stop two trannies accidentally (or on purpose) picking identical looks.

Every clown in the UK is supposed to have their unique face makeup design painted onto an eggshell and stored in this register. It's kind of like the sex offender's register, except one deals with creepy men who you wouldn't want living on your street... and the other one deals with sex offenders.

So it seems although I didn't make it to Sparkle in person, I was there in ego spirit.

And if it's any consolation Lauren, that happens to me all the time.

...

Of course, my usual answer is "Yes I am Becky, nice to meet you!" ;-)

Lynn Jones It's all going a bit Sparticus isn't it? :)

> except one deals with creepy men

That's very wrong.... yet very, very funny :D

Tiffy There is an excellent parallel clown egg scheme thingie in the Terry Pratchett book from Discworld: Men at Arms.

sophie h Should hair length be inversly proportional to the height of the tranny? :0)

Valerie S So, you're just two panty wearers with identically.. hairy?
*I'll get my coat*

Lauren Close > Of course, my usual answer is "Yes I am Becky, nice to meet you!"

Of course! That's what I should have said ;)

Jayne There is of course an official Government list of Transgendered people that they keep in a special office, in a similar way to say the sex offenders register.

It is claimed to be protected from access by just any old sausage, but as with all of these things I am sure that one day it will be left on a train or something.

So why did I bother to register for my GRC when there is a scary side to it all? Oh, just so I can get hitched to my Girlfriend...

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