It is accepted by many, more people than what may be expected by the general population, that many famous women are actually men. This post will explain why that might be, regardless of whether this is true or not based on my own years of pondering this concept.

Men playing roles of women is nothing new. All of Shakespeare was performed with men playing the roles of women. There must therefore be some reason for this, and it seems likely that this reason arises from the needs of those responsible for putting on the performance. What comes to mind is a plot point in the Oscar Wilde book “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” which shows a man falling in love with an actress and then, upon sharing his feelings for her, watches the talent that had made him hold her so highly in his mind in the first place crumble away. Before him he saw a flawed, clumsy, and graceless individual, changed from what she had once been by the love he had shown her. Oscar Wilde being deeply involved in the arts provided him with knowledge of the inner workings of performance. Oscar Wilde being a homosexual in the early 20th Century provided him with a grasp on the way that sexuality played into a performers aesthetic appeal, and from this he is clearly pointing out that a woman actor needs to be seeking validation at all times from the audience they are performing for in order to be convincing, for if there is something like love swirling around their heads they are going to care less about putting every bit of their being into their performance.

This seems like a possible explanation for why it may be that women have been passed off as men in the modern public sphere. An actor or public figure has more than just themselves trying to make a career off their on screen presence. There are teams of people propping up their careers, and so they are in many ways an investment to those such as their agents, promoters, schedulers, chauffeurs… all these people are united in their goal of continuing their relationship with someone successful enough to pay them what they do. Therefore, the person that they latch themselves to needs to be someone that is unlikely to crack in the same way that Dorian Grey’s actress love interest did. It therefore may be possible that men who can pass as women have a much higher chance of becoming a household name because they are not susceptible to the same kind of emotional pratfalls as real women. Real women are locked into the mindset where love and family is something more valuable than having an audience adore them. Family and love lives take place in private intimate moments, and it does not take long for the demands of one’s career become too much of a pull on a wife or mother’s time. This is very detrimental to the team responsible for keeping their clients career successful enough to sustain third party participants, and so those most capable of creating massively successful screen careers may have at some point established that the best way to guarantee continued revenue from their clients is to ensure that they are not susceptible to these kinds of issues that real women might create for them.

This is one explanation for why men may be cast as women in Hollywood. However, there is also another possible explanation for this that revolves around the kind of beauty that real women display in comparison to that which is projected by men who have very successfully turned themselves into women. Jennifer Aniston is one of the suspected t girls in Hollywood that comes to mind most often. As a man, I have to say that even when looking at her naked on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, I could not find it within myself to see her in a sexual manner. The same could be said about Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson. They are all three very beautiful women, and in fact I am in awe of their symmetry and aesthetically pleasing appearances. But at the same time, there is something about them that does not lend itself to sexual fantasizing the same way that someone such as the local weather woman or news anchor will. Upon further reflection, it seems to be because the local news women who peak my sexual interest have supple and motherly bodies – ones which would lend themselves to effortless procreation and which would perfectly nurse a growing child. The bodies of the previously mentioned women do not share this quality. Does this mean that these women are men? Not necessarily, but if this were to be the case then the reason for doing this would very likely be due to the fact that women whose bodies and faces are beautiful in a realistic way bring to the mind of the audience all of these attributes to the woman outside of her presence on screen – whereas these possibly transsexual women cannot be read in the same manner.

This is not to say that many men do not find these women sexually attractive, but it seems likely that these men think this way because these women are held in such high regard and therefore make themselves conquests that men like to think of themselves as worthy of pursuing – seeing these women’s status as sexually appealing due to knowing that their own status would be raised if their peers knew that they had made love to one of these A-list women.

This is not the same as the kind of attraction that one feels looking at women who are beautiful in realistic ways. Indeed, men would see an unfamous person of Taylor Swifts stature and likely deem her to be too skinny and prissy to be worth their time – instead choosing the thicker and more down to earth woman in their community who could make them a real dinner and warm them in the dark with their filled out and non-anemic bodies. This fullness and healthiness is attractive in a way that does not lend itself well to the screen. A-list women must take total command of the screen and be the image of beauty in its virginal state – and this is an airbrushed and unrealized form of beauty that some might call “real women” do not possess.

In conclusion, the use of trans women for roles as women in high budget productions may not necessarily be due to an overarching goal by nefarious underground groups to flip society’s understanding of sex and gender. While these sorts of groups do likely exist, it is nonetheless possible that the use of trans women in public positions and roles is done to ensure that those with whom so much financial responsibility to various third party participants rests are able to continually be a dominating force on screen and to never truly show the softness and true femininity that real women possess – in the name of creating on screen something artificial enough that there remains nothing to be seen that is not in perfect alignment with the directors artistic vision.