Well, *hello* ladies--are you looking for someone to come along and make you feel like a REAL WOMAN?

Are you?

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If so, my question is why? And what does that mean? I see it in parodies of romantic fiction and stuff like that, and in first-person, supposedly true, erotic tales: “for the first time, I felt like a real woman;” "now I understood what it meant to be a woman, " etc.

Is this just misogynist porno BS originating from the male power structure? Or is it something you conceivably ever picture yourself thinking? I don’t remember ever hearing, even in parody, a guy portrayed as wishing a woman would come along and make him feel like a real man. Is there some fundamental difference in the genders involved there?

Oh, and BTW,

Here. Iron this.

Please don’t hurt me.

You offering? :stuck_out_tongue:

arrrrgh, I really need to learn the difference between the submit and preview buttons :mad:

Seriously, I feel like a real woman every day because I don’t know how else to feel. I interpret it to mean “I never knew how good sex could be until I found the right man” but it’s so overused by now it just sounds corny.

Hey, lady, I got a lot of shirts.

Just kidding – I’m married and have a little girl, and plan to impress upon her at every opportunity that girls can do anything boys can and not to take any guff. Which, growing up in a relatively traditional Confucian society, isn’t the cliche it might seem to our Western ears. Still, I was curious about the OP.

Yeah, it just seems like a misogynist phrase that reduces the idea of “woman” to “enjoys getting fucked by a man”.

Well then I just hope you iron all those shirts yourself, mister :wink:

Hmm.

The song Young Lust:

That’s just one example. I’m absolutely certain there are many, many others.

If I need someone to come along and make me feel like a real woman, does that mean I’m a fake woman now? And what about women without curves? Are they fake women, too? Is it possible for a man to make a fake woman without curves feel like a real woman, or would that be an impossible task? Are there degrees of real, and if so, which is it that makes a woman more real: the man or the curves?

I feel like a real woman pretty much all the time. Because, you know, the giner.

Reminds me of my favorite joke when I was a teen.

A guy is riding on an elevator, when it stops to let a beautiful woman on. As the elevator starts up again, she eyes him lustfully for a while. Suddenly, she hits the emergency stop, rips off all her clothes, and says “Make me feel like a woman!”. So he rips off all his clothes and says:

Pick those up

That’s the best I got.

And yes, Peggy Lee taught me what it means to be a man.

I’ve usually seen it as the culmination of the man-hating broken bird main character being opened up to happiness and fulfillment through the love (penis) of a good man. Or a ridiculous parody of same.

I have an aquaintance who regularly delivers backhanded compliments of ‘You look like a woman today!’. My response to him is the same as my response to the poll: I was already a woman, jackass.

Note: Koxinga is not the jackass.

Just remember not to iron with your sandwich-making hand.

First thing that popped into my head.

Doesn’t every woman secretly want, as paraphrased, a penis spouting sperm, books, horses, a castle, and maybe some nice fountain pens? But sure, when I was a teen I dreamed of a man that would come along and know the magic words/actions to give me orgasms all the time and fulfill all my dreams.

Then I grew up, and realized both my orgasms and my dreams are primarily my responsibility. And I do not iron. :slight_smile:

They can’t pee standing up. At least not without using an assistive device or making a big mess.

I think I saw a Peter Maxx print once that was something along these lines. Or maybe it was Robert Crumb. The 60s were a strange time.

Oh, really?

I can’t remember the name of the comedian who had a great bit about what women say they want, versus what they actually want - that they always say they want a guy with a great sense of humor. Being a comedian, he had plenty of experience that it just was not true. What they really wanted was Antonio Banderas - “I will give you an orgasm so intense you will see dead relatives!”

There’s a scene in The Full Monty that pretty well totally disproves this.

When I was a teenager I wanted a woman to make me feel like a real man.

I recall Pinocchio wanted to be a real boy.

There are some people out there who wish their lovers were real people.

There is surgery available for men who want to feel like a real woman.

There’s a thread in another forum about real estate.