Narrative Messages Part 1

Maybe, all this time, in exhibiting my charms, I had wanted the world to know that I was neither male nor female, but shemale-a sexy, hot creature that transcended sex and gender" Now that her secret is out, she finds, "I was glad."

This story, like several others of my more popular shemale stories, is about self-acceptance, about self-respect, about being true to oneself. This theme seems very popular with readers, who, by definition, identify with and relate to the story's main character and her plight, just as readers identify and relate to the protagonist of any other type of story and his or her dilemma.

"Pygmalion" is based on the ancient Greek myth about the sculptor by the same name who creates a statue of a beautiful woman, Galatea, with which he falls in love. Venus takes pity on the sculptor and brings his statue to life; they marry and have a child, Paphos, together. George Bernard Shaw based his play, Pygmalion, on the myth, and the movie My Fair Lady is, in turn, based on Shaw's play. In the movie, the main character is Professor Higgins, just as he is in this story, except that the former is a professor of languages, whereas the one in this story is a professor of art, who teaches Sculpture 101.

The myth of Pygmalion is obviously sexist and chauvinistic. It is a reversal, too, of sorts, on the fact that it is women who give birth to men (and, of course, to other women), for Pygmalion not only creates (fathers) his statue, but he, through Venus, brings it to life (gives birth to it). Therefore, Pygmalion is a member of the transgender community himself, playing the roles of both the male, as father, and the female, as mother.