Lady Boy Thailand Beauty Pageant.......

After watching the video about the Lady Body Thailand Beauty Pageant that Shawna posted, I found it interesting but kinda of scary as well. First, I just want to say that the transgenders in this pageant were beautiful. I made a comment to one of my male friends on Friday after reviewing some pictures from this semester drag show I stated, "Its' amazing how some of these men dress in drag look way better than a lot of females on this campus and in general." He replied, "Yeah, that's because females are slacking it takes time to look like that..to look your best." After the conversion was over, I begin to think about the effects that society has on male and female gender roles. I agree that we as individuals should be able to live life freely, even if it means that one will want to change their gender. I can not pretend that I could understand why anyone will want to change their gender, but than again maybe its not meant for me to understand. I find the things that science can do to the human body amazing and scary at the same time. Scary...because I often wonder the consequences that science may have on society when it comes to rearranging and changing the human body. After all, good intentions can only go so far due to the fact that we as human beings are easily capable of manipulation, selfishness, corruption.....but most importantly we are weak in many ways.......In conclusion, I think we as human beings should be allow to live our lives the way we want. But I often wonder to what extend do we say enough is enough? Is there even an 'extend' to look for?...Also, I do not know what is more scary the advancement in science or the effects that society has on us all.