# I wish I was a Woman **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725 "2003-08-17T05:02:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/21 "2003-08-17T18:29:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*Okay, so spill it. > What exactly _are_ they thinking? \*\* You don’t want to know. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/22 "2003-08-17T18:55:33Z")
Remember, guys, you likely wouldn’t get a young, hot, nubile body. You’d get a flat-chested body, or a chubby body, or a middle-aged body, or a pregnant body. The majority of women don’t exactly garner stares while walking down the street, because they’re just…average-looking. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/23 "2003-08-17T19:04:24Z")
I’d love to be a guy for a while. Not for a long while, but a little while. Long enough to play with all the different bits, and hopefully hunt down someone who gives a decent blow job. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/24 "2003-08-17T19:31:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fnord1966 \* > \*\*I understood that when I mentioned it. Im up for it if it will expand my knowledge. \*\* It would expand your knowledge of searing pain coursing through your abdomen, along with other unpleasant things. Thankfully, Birth Control Pills (usually) decrease most of the cramping. > [@](#): > > I dont understand, therefore I am willing to experience. I think if you experienced it once, you’d never volunteer again. 😛 I’m not trying to take the piss out of you, **fnord1966**. I respect your curiosity, even if your intentions are a bit lascivious. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/25 "2003-08-17T19:44:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orange Skinner \* > \*\* > > And then of course…I’d have a penis. That’d be interesting. I’d get to poke at it and see how much it can take, how boyant it is, all kinds of fun stuff. Bring it on. \*\* Oh definitely. And it would be way fun to try and pee standing up. Oh, and I NEVER have to take a friend to the bathroom. Nor have my friends ever done that. Unless I was in a sleazy area and I didn’t want to go ANYWHERE alone. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/26 "2003-08-17T19:45:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yumblie \* > \*\*You don’t want to know. \*\* Oh, yes I do! C’moooon! Tell meeeeeeeeeeee!!! ---
**Author:** ![TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFunkySpaceCowboy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/27 "2003-08-18T00:45:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*Oh, yes I do! > C’moooon! Tell meeeeeeeeeeee!!! \*\* Well it’s difficult to explain… how bout you come over and I’ll just show you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/28 "2003-08-18T00:59:23Z")
I have thought about this as well but have come to the conclusion that it would not be all that different. At most, being a woman would just mean that I had a few more hassles to deal with. Or, it would end up [like](http://www.sgvy.com/comics/sgvy/SGVY.Edda_1.Issue_1.Page_6.html) [this](http://www.sgvy.com/comics/sgvy/SGVY.Edda_1.Issue_5.Page_3.html). ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/29 "2003-08-18T04:07:05Z")
**Muad’Dib** , Thank you for the links. Giant anime fan here, in fact, thats partly where I got the idea for the thread. Happens to people a lot in the manga dosen’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/30 "2003-08-18T05:34:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*Long enough to play with all the different bits, and hopefully hunt down someone who gives a decent blow job. \*\* Would a woman in a man’s body have better or worse luck at that than a man in a man’s body? Insight vs. experience, I suppose. I thin it’d be ideal to have one consciousness over two bodies. You wouldn’t have to go out hunting for ‘help’, and you’d know what both sides felt at the same time. Her’s another question: do homosexual males ever wonder about being female? Is it a general human issue of curiosity, or specifically a heterosexual curiosity about sexuality? ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/31 "2003-08-18T05:42:52Z")
I just started using a Dvorak keyboard again, and it’s really late. They are not Freudian typos. ---
**Author:** ![Tommyturtle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Tommyturtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommyturtle)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/32 "2003-08-18T06:00:44Z")
Not just Manga…in one of the Oz books the main MALE character turns out to be female in the end(I think he/she was cursed by a witch as a baby or something…looooooong time since I read that book) ---
**Author:** ![Tommyturtle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Tommyturtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommyturtle)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/33 "2003-08-18T06:01:54Z")
Sorry I am of course referring to the Oz books by Frank Baum(sp?) ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/34 "2003-08-18T06:08:55Z")
Or another possible scenario, Would men in womens bodys be lesbians? And the other way around too? I think that you would still be into what you were into before, but maybe not. What if you could just switch bodys with a partner? Your SO for example. You could have sex with yourself. I’m sure you all can figure out what I mean, even if I cant get it out right. Too much work not enough sleep, Gomennasai. ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/35 "2003-08-20T05:04:52Z")
Nobody wants to have sex with themselvs? It cant be just me, can it? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/36 "2003-08-20T11:38:17Z")
I’d want to be a woman because, as Billy Joel says, I Can’t be Convicted, I’ve Earned my Degree. So I could get away with murder. Also, as Shania Twain says, One of the Things About Being a Woman is the Prerogative to Have a Little Fun. Being a man, I’ve always wondered what that was like… ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/37 "2003-08-20T11:49:49Z")
[Robyn Hitchcock] Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl So I could wreck myself in the shower… [/Robyn Hitchcock] ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-was-a-woman/195725/38 "2003-08-20T12:18:34Z")
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