Well...............no matter how he was dressed, Bumpus people are afraid of no one. Have them in my family. The first Bumpus/Bumpas came over on the Fortune in 1621, Edward de Bompasse. Sometimes it pays to know who you’re picking on. :-)
I remember Chris Rock doing a joke about his cross-dressing uncle, “Aunt Tom.” The upshot of it was, had anyone threatened his nieces and nephews, Aunt Tom would have taken off his spiked heels and proceeded to kick *ss.