I just posted in QuickSilver’s thread about which convertible sports cars are perceived as manly vs girly. I asked about the BMW Z4, which is a car that my pulse races at the sight of … I feel a physical longing for it. In my post in that thread I almost wrote that the car makes me hard, but then I remembered that I’m a girl.
I guess I could have said that the car makes me wet, but women don’t go around saying that things make them wet the way that I’ve heard guys go around saying that things make them hard: in my experience, the “hard” thing has become a figure of speech whereas the “wet” thing still gets taken kind of literally. So, I took any reference to how I feel about the car out of my post, and started this new thread to ask: could I have said that the car makes me “hard”?
I can say it around certain friends (people who I know would understand what I mean and wouldn’t be offended by the somewhat crude talk), but I don’t think I’ve ever heard another woman say it. I really like it as a figure of speech: it expresses a degree of raw longing/wanting in a simple, straightforward way.
What say the Dopers? Can women talk about getting hard? If not, does anyone know of a similar figure of speech for women?
Interesting question. I have to admit I’ve appropraited “balls”…as in “I finally got the balls to go over and talk to him”, or perhaps “that’s one ballsy chick”. I’ve heard attempts made for “having the ovaries to…” but no…not going to work. Just seems forced.
But on the other hand, IMHO, wet is a pretty fair equivalent for hard. I think I would just go with “wet”, that seems to convey the meaning clearly enough to me.
I agree with Keapon Laffin. I don’t think that ‘makes me wet’ would be taken literally by most. Men won’t think it means you are really sexually excited (although you may excite some of them)
Incidentally, I once overheard a female friend of mine say to another woman, about a third woman, “I wouldn’t fuck her with your dick!” I then proceeded to choke on about half of the beer I was drinking.
Well wimmens do get bits that get hard, at least that’s been my observation. People might look at you funny if you say something gives you a clit-on but I think if you say that it makes your nipples hard they’d get it though it may be TMI. Doesn’t that just frost your balls?
I’m a woman, and I’m a fan of the occasional use of this expression. Because it’s, ya know,* an expression.* It doesn’t need to be literal. It’s nice to have both hard and wet available for use depending upon the situation, some things are just more hard-making, while others strike me as more wet-making.
First thing I thought of while reading the OP was **matt_mcl’s ** answer: “wide-on.” A number of my cruder female friends use the term in just the way you mean.
This thread reminds me of Rosanne Barr’s famous response to hecklers who were pissing her off: “suck my dick.”
As a guy, I would say that, if in the right company where you can “let your hair down” and use a crude expression, either a male-phrased or female-phrased version would work.
What’s interesting is that, as I think about it right now, if you were the least bit unsure about the folks you were hanging out with, I would think the male-phrased version should be your first choice. Since you don’t have male equipment, it would be 100% clear that you were speaking figuratively…
I was on the phone with my husband once, but just after we had started talking. I was sitting in a parking lot or something, when someone drove by with an annoyingly (and intentionally) loud car, whining all the way through the gears. “Oh yeah,” I said sarcastically, “I got a hard on now.” It was a line I picked up from my ex-husband and would use for comic effect with said ex. However, it completely just slipped out, and my (now) husband fell dead quiet and said… “Is there something you need to tell me?”
So yeah, I tend to use hard, although sometimes I will qualify it with “If I were a man, I’d have a hard-on the size of Texas.”
