Entering a wrong branch of work only because it paid good, now I am stuck with knowledge that is not really interesting and am doing double effort to learn new skills and start a new job career. Hopefully I will be able to use some of the experience I have acquired up to now.
I can not say what was the real intent behind this but I'd like to discuss it from my point of view, how I perceive it and what would my intentions would be if I dressed up as a woman.
Being a woman IS NOT "about as low, ridiculous and debased as a person can get". To me this is the same as if he would wear that silly body builder costume with muscles poking out or the sumo wrestler suit.And by wearing those suits I don't think it is derogatory to body builders or sumo wrestlers. It is about the person doing it making a joke of themselves because they just look ridiculous and funny when they do not appear as themselves. Walking in heels, wearing makeup, having lots of muscles on you or just lots of body mass (not to say fat) will make you walk awkward because you are not used to it.
There is a difference when you put on a muscle suit for a day and if you build up and have muscles every day (I wish) so it is not also about mocking the way how body builders walk (btw. the walk think is the only thing that comes to my mind if I was wearing one of those what would I think is funny on me about that, maybe there are also some other aspects why that would be funny).
So no, it is not degrading to dress up as any person, it is just for a laugh, at least in my case and how I perceive that. That said, if someone is making a joke not out of themselves but out of people they are dressing up as, that is not nice and not ok.
The real question is will you stop mean people being mean by banning and/or criticizing any dressing up or you will just kill off some harmless fun, while mean people still stay mean and find other ways to "practice" their meanness?