Hello and welcome to another edition of TROONS! DON’T! PASS!!!!!!!!
Contestant Number One is this episode’s featured warm-up round. Behold this mentally-ill, groomed young adult male and his above-average attempt to conceal his male skull. He clearly took to heart the MANY instances where TiMs are laughed at for proudly displaying that caveman brow-bone and has adapted his camouflage accordingly. Unfortunately, the stubble and *literal everything else* about him is still male. Good attempt there, bucko!
Contestant Number Two brings us solidly back into the realm of arrogant male delusion. Look at that punchable smirk, the visible dandruff flakes, the “what the fuck” hairline part, the facial hair shadow. You might not like it ladies but this is what a real woman looks like. What a waste of such a perfectly nice jawline.
Remember everyone, troons walk among us undetected all the time. You can’t ever tell. Contestant Number Three here has a frame like a partially atrophied refrigerator he is only accentuating with that elongated necklace chain and blouse neckline. That haircut looks like a badly grown out pixie which I suppose is what man hair looks like when they just stop going to the barber. He desperately needs to cover up that gigantic ear because I’m pretty sure that thing can pick up signals from outer space.
Contestant Number Four has fallen into the “Normal Metalhead Man or Perverted Internet Cultist” valley and can’t get up! Someone send him LifeAlert. Why men never understand that selfies for women involve SET DRESSING I will never know. Do they think we just wake up with perfect little arrangements of matching toiletries on our bathroom counters, or that our mirrors never accumulate water spots? Do they think Pinterest-Mom flatlays of coffee and notepads (with nothing written in them OR obsessive bullet journal spreads) just naturally occur in a house with high enough estrogen levels? This picture is a great illustration of a male-specific single-mindedness: he wanted to take a mirror selfie, so he walked in the bathroom, snapped the photo, and went on his way. The end. A woman would have walked in there, thought “oh no, this won’t do for the Internet People” and would have probably despaired at the idea altogether or set to work arranging the setting to suit her purposes. We are not the same. YWNBAW.
Contestant Number Five here is showing off his sparse yet well-maintained living space but I was so instantly distracted by his aggressive snarl that it took a while for my eyes to notice the room behind it. POV: You flush the toilet, arrange your clothing, and open the stall door only to see THIS staring at you with his malevolent gaze and exposed canines. This is a face that inspires a visceral need to take a head count of any children under my care and clutch them all a bit tighter as we squeeze past this obvious threat in a Target aisle.
“The bigger the hoop the bigger the hoe,” says this image of Contestant Number Six. While he definitely made more of an effort than your average basement dwelling diaper fetishist, he is still dressed inappropriately for the activity at hand: a walk in the park. Why is his makeup so heavy so early in the day for such a physical activity? Why doesn’t he notice that those earrings only serve to draw the eye towards his elongated earlobes? Why is he reminding me of that montage scene from early in Mrs. Doubtfire? (I can’t attach the photo for some reason but it’s where he says “Every night is like the Bay of Pigs.”)
Our last contestant went with a bold look for a day of

shopping

that says ”Developmentally disabled adult who has gotten away from their tard-wrangler.” That wig. Those glasses. That shirt paired with that skirt paired with those sandals. I would stay home if my only outfit option was this outfit. Let me use some normal-track female socialization to explain why:
1. The wig is obviously fake. Obviously fake can sometimes be a LOOK but for the most part woman dressing to impress other women (which is almost ALWAYS our standard, sorry men) try to conceal artifice. Karen in HR won’t cry herself to sleep at night if she thinks my hair is FAKE, she’ll only recognize my superiority as a woman if she thinks I look this way all on my own because she can’t achieve that. It’s the reason women might say “Oh this? Thanks, but really it’s no big deal. I just woke up like this.” Obviously this is not something we go around explicitly acknowledging, but you can pick up on it in marketing targeted to women: look for phrases like natural, effortless, the real you, etc etc etc.
2. Those glasses are out of fashion, the wrong shape for his face (adding length which Horseface here does NOT need), and more associated with frigid old librarians than anything aspirational for women today.
3. Bedazzled shirts (with skulls?) are better left for wine mommies posting on Facebook about how much WORK marriage is and how they sometimes want to STRANGLE their husband but they are so in LOVE. (Repeat ad nauseam, also same kind of posts about being a MAWM) This shirt looks like something you might encounter in a clearance end-cap at Walmart on November 1.
4. The belted skirt hits too low on his body to fake a feminine waistline and thus draws attention to the lack thereof. Skirt=Girl in Trannyland but it’s not as simple as that. If he’d worn something that hit higher on his body, where a female waistline would be, he might be better able to temporarily fool people (except for all the other stuff I already mentioned). The length of a garment, the silhouette it suggests, the color, all these elements coalesce into something your eye might only linger on momentarily while you are forming the impression a woman wants you to form. A well constructed outfit should have no obvious outliers for you to fixate on, something that provokes an overall feeling. Like walking into a room that feels cozy or glamorous or what have you. You might not be able to pick out WHY you feel that way and that is the whole goal. Make people view you as effortlessly gorgeous and well-put-together.
5. Those shoes. Ok that skirt hits at a point that makes his legs look fat and stumpy. A pair of heels would have helped to offset his fashion crimes somewhat. They look like fundie fashion and make a pretty woman’s feet look hideous. I’m convinced they are made in a factory by someone who wants all women to look worse.
Thanks for watching, tune in next time for Troons! Don’t! Paaaaaaassssss!