Long story: I’m adopted. My birth mother went on to marry my birth father. They had two brothers and a sister. I saw a few of her photos.
To make a long story short, I’d be a much hotter female than a male.
Somehow I was thinking there would be a link to a website where you’d submit your current photo and sophisticated sw would come up with how you would have looked with a single chromosome swapout.
That would have been cool.
I would make Bea Arthur look pretty in comparison.
In all likelihood, I would look a lot like my mother if I were female. I resemble my father and never really thought that my mother and I looked very much alike.
One day though, I saw our senior pictures side by side. I believe my exact words were, “Wow! You looked like me in a wig!” The resemblance between our 17 year old selves really is uncanny.
I was thinking the same thing! hee, hee, hee
Picture a 6’1", 212 lb. male bear.
Now picture that as a woman.
Now use brain bleach and massive amounts of alcohol to erase that mental image.
I wouldn’t be pretty, I’d be Sasquatchella.
Well, there is this face transformer website.
You can upload a picture of your face and choose from several morphs including opposite gender, also you can do age progression or morphing into different races. These morphs are all based on algorithms on how faces of those types vary from the average. I had mixed results with it…the different races morph gave the most “realistic” looking images for me (I look pretty good as West Asian, btw). When I tried the gender one (I am female) I felt like it didn’t masculinize the image enough and the result looked like a fugly 15-year-old boy with girlish lips. Then again, I’m 26 but strangers estimate my age at about 16 (it comes up fairly often such as when I’m purchasing alcohol) so maybe it’s not so far off. Or maybe it was just the lipgloss and plucked eyebrows.
I might actually make a pretty good looking woman. I’d probably be “cute” at least.
I have a hard time imagining exactly what I’d look like though since I have a receding hairline and am pretty hairy (I shave my face fairly regularly, but my hair grows back pretty quickly so stubble appears). Also I think my facial features would be different, my sister definitely has rounder features (but my half-sister less so, and our mom has sharper features than my dad).
We’re a fairly good-looking family—my dad and brother are more than average good-looking and I’m already tall for a woman (5’9"), so I’d think I’d be a very handsome man. This is the first I ever considered this! I was always a very girly girl and I loove being a woman! If I were a man, I might have to mow the lawn and I’m scared of lawn mowers and I’d lose my man card, so it’s really for the best
Yeah, I hear that. Although maybe with a lifetime of female social training and estrogen instead of testosterone, things would be different. Hopefully it would mean one wouldn’t be as hairy in female form, at the very least. Bonus points if one could finagle the kind of curves that cause traffic accidents 
Good lord. I make a hideous female…not a bad manga cartoon, tho’.
My wife and I have decided to not have any children for fear that we might have a girl, and that she might look like me!!
I have wondered that before. For a while, I didn’t have to wonder. Until I was about nine my mother often got complimented on what a cute little girl I was; I had really blue eyes and a mop of curly hair that mom wouldn’t let me cut very often. That’s one reason that when I got some control over my haircuts I got it cut really short.
My face changed drastically in puberty. In a few years I went from having a cute roundish face with neutral eye shape and a small nose, to an oval face set with the roman beak I’ve got now, and got kind of sloe eyed. I switched from looking like a combination of dad with a little bit of mom, to one of mom’s relatives with some dad leavening. I’m a decent looking guy, but not in the least feminine or even neutral in looks.
I did one cross-dressing experiment to see how it would look for a Halloween costume when I was about seventeen. While I had a great ass in a miniskirt, I made a powerfully ugly girl otherwise. If I cross-dressed, I’d have to go for obvious drag queen, or old lady; no chance at all for she-male hotness here.
Under the “feminise” setting, that site that was linked above made me gain about 40 pounds, and I look a bit like my paternal aunt. In actuality, I’d probably look more like mom’s side, which would be pretty close to my youngest sister with some tweaks; oval face with a medium chin that’s not quite enough to make the face heart-shaped or square, decent cheekbones, nose that’s a bit too strong, full lips. The youngest, who resembles me, has a face that would be described as attractive or striking now and has aged better than the middle one, who was pretty when she was younger. I’d probably be much the same.
With both my sisters averaged out as a guide, I’d have hips that are slightly on the wide side, would be average build, about 5’5" to maybe 5’7" in height, medium breasts (I think both of them are about a 36 B or C, or would be if middle sister, M., hadn’t gotten her boobs done when she was in her mid-20s) and have slightly wide shoulders. If I ate too much or didn’t exercise enough I’d get chunky around the butt and hips, but would still look decent carrying a few extra pounds. If I worked out I’d be slightly muscular but still a bit curvy.
I was playing with FaceGen software - you can do a 3D model of your face and then change it’s gender or ethnicity easily using sliders. A lot of fun.
Maybe I’ll try to get some screenshots that weekend and post them.
When my daughter was born, she looked exactly like my husband did when he was a baby. The only way she looked like me was the hair (dammit). She is generally considered a gorgeous kid. I joke that if I had known my husband would have made such a pretty woman, I’d have put him in drag ages ago.
I often think of these types of things when I see butch women. I don’t think most of us when dressing ourselves put much thought into “gee, this is what a girl does” until you see a girl that doesn’t do those things and you realize how masculine you can look without all those little things.
I like to think that I couldn’t really be confused with a guy, but shave my head, thicken my eyebrows and dress differently, it might be kind of hard to tell. (well, except for the boobies)
In a study of eigenfaces, the first principle component vector aligned itself with gender.
This is a story of principle component analysis applied to a group of pictures of people’s faces. The photos are reduced to a dataset - for all I know the dataset is pixel brightness by coordinate, for each photo, which is how I have done this for analyzing other images.
Let the value for each variable in the dataset be a coordinate in a multidimensional space. So, for 1 megapixel images, let there be a space with one million dimensions. Every possible image becomes one point in this space, whose coordinates are the brightnesses of all its pixels.
You can look at the point cloud of a set of images, and find the axis through the cloud that has the greatest length in a certain sense. That is, you can find the vector along which the correlation between all the dimensions is the greatest. This is the first eigenvector, and each point’s projection onto this vector is the first principle component.
Then, you can subtract the first principle component, collapsing the cloud along its longest axis into a flat sheet lying at some angle in the 1000000 dimensional space. Now, look for the longest axis through this flat cloud, which will be a second eigenvector, the projections becoming the second principle component. You can do this again and again, 1000000 times, before the point cloud has zero size.
So, anyway, in studying photos of faces this way, a study discovered that the longest eigenvector was neatly correlated with gender.
That is, if you approach face image generation in this linear composition way, expect the most important variable to be gender.