On the road and in the air

Ok, so I know this is coming a week late, but that's the way it is sometimes.

The Tranny Road Show was fantastic!
It had that ability that only variety-type acts have to cross the entire board of emotion and entertainment. It was funny, it was touching, it spurred me to laughter, anger, and nearly to tears.
Highlights included an aerialist - sort of acrobatic dancing done suspended from ropes and/or hoops in the air. I'm pretty buff, but I come no where close to this woman in badassness. I would sell my left kidney for that kind of upper body strength and muscle tone.
There was a 'pupalelli' show, which is a combination of puppeteer and ukalleli. She had puppets strapped to her feet and legs which danced along to the song she played and sang. It was a truly impressive feat of coordination.
One woman in her 70's did a magic act. She had such an amazing 40's era broad kind of femininity, tottering about on her heels and making off color jokes while doing old-school magic tricks.
There was a guy who talked about his recent wedding, which had a circus theme. He changed into what he wore during the ceremony, which was a lion costume.
AND, one of the more adorable human beings ever, Kelly 'Shortandqueer'. He is precisely that. He's a tiny (shorter than me) little redhead who talked about performing masculinity and trying to control his hand gestures, which read as either feminine or gay. The whole audience was laughing and squealing about how cute and funny he was.

Things that were not great about it: The way in which one performer talked about her vagina. She said, 'Ask a tranny girl about her vagina, and she'll tell you how much it cost - $8,300 in Thailand.' Much of the rest of the theme of her piece was about the cost of her surgery and how much it put her into debt. That figure is approximately what it costs most ftms to get top surgery.* Bottom surgery for trans guys runs somewhere around $50,000. It is steadily improving, but not nearly as well perfected as sex reassignment surgery for mtfs. She also made this really horrible comment about 'girls who keep their penises' which just smacked of privilege. She was in the position to get surgery, even if it did take her some time to pay it off. She had such a strange combination of a victim complex and entitlement about it. She was also kind of creepy and gross and I really didn't want to hear another word about her vagina, sex with her girlfriend, or the orgasms she had. I spend half my life talking about, and listening to people talk about vaginas.

*That's also about a third of my current student loan debt, which is remarkably low compared to most people.