# Grandma was Grandpa. So it's true... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandma-was-grandpa-so-its-true/583517 "2011-05-28T02:30:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandma-was-grandpa-so-its-true/583517/1 "2011-05-28T02:30:44Z")
…what Ruth Rendell said. [“After further investigation, detectives have determined the person believed to be a female suspect in fact is a male,” DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said Friday evening.](http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/27/georgia.grandma.bandit/index.html?hpt=T2) > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Ruth Rendell** > _As people grow old they lose their good looks. This is a commonplace, a cliche. Losing beauty though is only the beginning of a chain. The next link in the chain is the loss of sex. At a certain age, perhaps the late seventies, old women can only be distinguished from old men by their clothes, by skirts and style of hair. And then there comes a point, from which good Lord deliver us, when humanity itself is gone and old apes sit in human clothes…_ ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandma-was-grandpa-so-its-true/583517/2 "2011-05-28T03:03:17Z")
OMG! That does look like a woman. I have to say, though, most old women tend to get masculine as the age. Most even grow facial hair. I rarely see old men who look feminine, unless they were overly feminine to begin with. It’s creepy how some old people look child like or even infantile. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandma-was-grandpa-so-its-true/583517/3 "2011-05-28T16:53:08Z")
NM Wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandma-was-grandpa-so-its-true/583517/4 "2011-05-28T17:13:56Z")
Considering the man’s name was Roxanne, he may have worked on the looking like a woman thing. Or otherwise had a leg up on it. ---
**Author:** ![Tracyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tracyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracyfish)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandma-was-grandpa-so-its-true/583517/5 "2011-05-28T22:47:22Z")
This might explain a lot as far as how **Least Original User Name Ever** is going to become a grandmother. At a family gathering, my grandma told him, “When you become a grandmother…” We all laughed, but maybe she was onto something. Instead of getting a sex change operation, he could just start looking like a woman when he gets old. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandma-was-grandpa-so-its-true/583517/6 "2011-05-29T01:50:48Z")
> [@YaraMateo](#): > > It’s creepy how some old people look child like or even infantile. Especially if they need to wear diapers again. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandma-was-grandpa-so-its-true/583517/7 "2011-05-29T04:01:28Z")
Part of it could be his accessories. The article linked mentioned that he pulled a gun from his purse. Most guys that age aren’t carrying a purse unless they’re holding it for the woman in their life, in drag or disguise.