I Want to be a Woman, #2

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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That’s a good question…when debating whether or not I’d be willing to do it for a year, it occured to me that how attractive/unattractive you were would have a big impact on how the experience went. In thinking about it, I went with, “just assume I’ll be about as attractive as I am as a woman, as a guy.” Then I thought about it from the perspective of the most average male physical being I could think of.

If the process were possible, it’d be cool to pick who you’d “turn into,” though. Like, you could flip through a body catalogue, or view some line-ups, and just pick your body out.

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To be a guy for a year?

I’d never wash my towel and watch it turn into a life form.

I’d get to wait until December 23rd to do Xmas shopping and then charge in like a physcotic rhino through the crowds to buy presents from 7-11 at the last minute. ( My real life Xmas list is 80%done)

I would not have to do the Xmas Card list.
I.would.never.have.to.multi-task.again.

I could wash my face with Dial Anti-Bacterial soap or Lava and not get one pimple.

I could roll over in the morning, with the fiercest dragon breath imaginable, ask my wife for a morning quickie and wonder why she recoils under the sheet with a vemonous hiss.

I could watch the Lions all day, including the pre-pre game show, the pre-game show, the Game , the post game summary, the Post summary wrap up and the highlights (or lowlights) on every major channel until 2am and I would still get irritated when my wife calls my team, “Pathetic losers who will never win in the Superbowl.”
I would try it, but frankly, I’d rather put up with the lunacy of being a woman. It just makes sense to me.

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Sure, I’d be willing to try it. Sounds interesting. (I’m going to assume that it more or less involves turning into a female equivalent of my current form - broadly similar appearance, just more feminine general looks plus the obvious sexual characteristics changes).

I’m somewhat effeminate anyway (not ‘camp’, just not especially masculine), so it would be interesting to try for a year. I’d only have one condition: I’d need to have a female friend who was completely willing to answer and help with embarassing questions. “So umm… how exactly do I use this?”. Most of my friends at the moment are female, but I think they’d be too freaked out to answer the questions.

Do I get my own warddrobe? It would be a bit expensive to equip myself with enough stuff given that I’m only going to be using it for a year.

But, barring the little details, sure. It sounds interesting. A broad range of experiences is always good, and it would help me understand a bit more about people in general. Periods sound like hell, but I think I’d be willing to pay that price for the experience.

I don’t think I’d be willing to do more than a year, and almost certainly not a full time switch. I suspect I’d have to try it first before I could say.

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Not to mention your hair, which would still remain silky and shiny.

AHunter3, I agree–you don’t have to be a woman to wear any of those things (and BTW, I agree about the heels), but my guess is that you got a few “looks” on mass transit and in the bank, did you not? The looks may not have bothered you, and that’s cool. But they most likely happened nonetheless, whereas if I had gone to the bank in a wrap-around skirt, not many people would have found it remarkable (assuming I was clean-shaven).

OK, I have a thought:

For those of you concerned about how to deal with your families and SOs, let’s say that you could do this little experiment sort of It’s a Wonderful Life-style. In other words, you’d get to see (just for a year) what your life would be like if you’d been born the opposite sex.

So Fretful Porpentine wouldn’t have to explain anything to her parents; she’d be their son, and it would be as if they’d never had a daughter named Fretful.

(I personally have always been curious as to what my life with my parents would have been like had I been a boy–I was spoiled, to be sure, but I still come from a pretty damn chauvinistic family, so I know I’d have been treated differently. Plus, when my mom was pregnant with me, my older brother threatened to run away if I turned out to be a boy (he liked being the only boy in the family). I wonder if he would have . . . )

And Orange Skinner’s SO would just sort of be “frozen in time” until she got back from her “year abroad” (or, rather, “year adude”–tee hee), so it’s not like the SO would actually notice OS missing. And heck, she might know the SO anyway, even as the opposite sex, and wouldn’t that be interesting?

I also wonder (as a straight female who wouldn’t kick Thandie Newton outta my bed ;)) what kind of women I’d be attracted to as a man. And what MY look would be. I personally suspect that I’d have long hair, facial hair, and a couple of tattoos and ear piercings (of course, that’s what I look like NOW . . . ). :smiley:

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Auntie em, you have facial hair? That’s a surprise :slight_smile:

I’m pretty happy with being a guy, but like a lot of folks in this thread I’ve had my own set of curiosities, mainly because of my adoration of women. I certainly wonder what it would be like to be idolized by the opposite sex. I’ve also pondered what having long hair would be like, especially now that I’m losing mine. And I agree with some earlier posters that women can be more creative with clothing (particularly at formal gatherings).

On the other hand, I’ve had beards or goatees constantly for the past seven years, and I like having facial hair because it enables me to drastically alter my “look”. I’m sure some women wonder what that’s like.

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Unfortunately, yes. Not enough to grow an eye-popping Frank Zappa soul patch, but enough to make waxing my friend. :wink:

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Well, not BC pills (the doctors give me funny looks if I ask for 'em :), but various prescription psychoreactive drugs (I’m thinking mainly wellbutrin here) have done this to me, although I guess that wouldn’t be gender-specific.

But just so you know, yes it IS possible for men to suddenly burst into tears for essentially no good reason whatsoever, but I think we might need a little extra help.

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Well as a singer/songwriter, I have a song that I perform entitled, “If I were a girl”. It gets laughs.

Needless to say, if I were a girl I’d be a little whore!

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I’m freaking out here a little, because I just recently had a serious hormonal hissy fit. My PMS week this month was unusually crazy-feeling. For another week after that, I felt disconnected, disssatisfied and unable to focus. Kept having flash fantasies about turning my car into oncoming traffic, chopping my hand off with the carving knife, screaming obscenities in the middle of work…

I feel fine now and I finally realized that the crazy feelings were related to hormones. I’m having very steady, moderate breakthrough bleeding (some people call it “spotting”). Like I’m having a light period, but it’s not that time of the month. Waht sucks is that the soonest my gynocologist can get me in is September 8th; I’ll have PMS again before then. WebMD says to call a professional today and that they may be able to give me advice over the phone.

Maybe I should call my internal medicine doc.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. A couple of months ago I realized that menopause is closer… I do not want to go through menopause.

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I’ve had this conversation with several guy friends. They all agreed that if they were a woman for a day, they would

  1. play with their boobies incessantly
  2. get laid as many times as possible
  3. try to get some lesbian action