# Who would you want to look like if you were a member of the opposite sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 4, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949 "2003-03-04T06:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/1 "2003-03-04T06:05:56Z")
Okay Dopers, if you were a member of the opposite sex, who would you want to look like and why? The name of a celebrity you’d like to resemble will probably be the best answer since everyone will know what they look like (or can find out on Google), but if you want to give a description instead that’s fine. For the purposes of this question I consider gender identity more important that your actual physical sex, so anyone who identifies as a woman should pick a man/masculine description and anyone who identifies as a man should pick a woman/feminine description. Oh, and your alter-ego can be whatever sexual orientation you like. As for me, I’m thinking if I were a man right now I’d want to look like Ewan McGregor. He’s quite an attractive young man, but not in a threatening or intimidating way. I know lots of women really like the more “dangerous” types, but I’d wouldn’t like to be the sort of guy who any woman would look at and be scared of or who would cause a girlfriend’s parents to make grim faces if she brought me home for Thanksgiving. So no rugged biker or soulful but emaciated poet look for **MascuLamia**. No, I’d be a fine, handsome, healthy Scotsman! Okay, I guess I wouldn’t actually be Scottish since I didn’t mention anything about changing ethnicity as well as sex, but I’m sure I’d still look damn good in a kilt. And I don’t think I’d be so much of a prettyboy that other guys would give me too much of a hard time about my appearance (unless I wore a kilt _often_). Nope, I think I’d be one lucky dude, if I were a dude, and I looked like Ewan McGregor. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/2 "2003-03-04T06:35:39Z")
Eve Arden. ---
**Author:** ![skaterboarder87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/3 "2003-03-04T06:41:01Z")
If I had a body like Natalie Portman’s, I would never leave the house. A mirror is all I would need. ---
**Author:** ![IEatFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@IEatFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IEatFood)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/4 "2003-03-04T07:20:44Z")
I’d look like Diane Lane. Perhaps the most gorgeous woman in history, she goes quietly underrated by today’s somewhat flashy standards. Her Beauty has a demure presence and a classic elegance that says " Aegean Blue AMG E55" much more than shouting “Flammin’ Red Dodge Viper GTS”, as so many of today’s “hotties” tend to. Like Katherine Hepburn, but more so, if that were possible. The obvious advantage of all this is that she can go anywhere she wants to & have enough presence to command whatever attention she needs, but not so much flasiness as to have every Tom, Dick & Harry catcalling her from six legues away. What a class act! ---
**Author:** ![it\_sjustme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/da6949/32.png) [@it\_sjustme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/it_sjustme)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/5 "2003-03-04T08:24:21Z")
Brendan Fraiser ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/6 "2003-03-04T08:50:15Z")
Probably PJ Harvey, because I already look like a male version of her, and I like how I look. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/7 "2003-03-04T11:09:29Z")
Freddie Ljungberg. His facial bone structure is similar enough to mine, just more masculine. I hope the footballing ability comes with the looks. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/8 "2003-03-04T11:22:59Z")
myself, ok just kidding. for some reason i find it somewhat unsettling to see a pair of brother and sister who look so much alike, as if, as if… nevermind ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/9 "2003-03-04T12:40:41Z")
Brad Pitt (I know…trite. But true.) Or Heath Ledger. For obvious reasons. But I guess I’d have to be gay. I doubt that I’d suddenly like women, just because of the sex change.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/10 "2003-03-04T12:43:55Z")
Thora Birch. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/11 "2003-03-04T13:09:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IEatFood! \* > \*\*I’d look like Diane Lane. Perhaps the most gorgeous woman in history, she goes quietly underrated by today’s somewhat flashy standards. > \*\* Good choice! I’m not sure I’d call her the most gorgeous woman in history, but she is a non-glitzy and beautiful, sophisticated, classy looking lady. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/12 "2003-03-04T13:21:25Z")
A young Tyne Daly (when she was in _The Enforcer_) or Alyson Hannigan. ---
**Author:** ![MissBungle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MissBungle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissBungle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/13 "2003-03-04T13:37:33Z")
my boyfriend ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/14 "2003-03-04T13:52:59Z")
Gayle Harold (Brian from Queer as Folk). He’s damn sexy, smart and has a presence that commands attention. ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@MSU\_1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_1978)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/15 "2003-03-04T14:00:45Z")
Jennifer Aniston ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/16 "2003-03-04T14:59:32Z")
I can’t remember her name off the top of my head, but the actress who played Miss Parker in the TV show ‘The Pretender’. Few women in Hollywood strike me the way she does. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/17 "2003-03-04T15:10:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MissBungle \* > \*\*my boyfriend \*\* Ahhh, how sweet. This thread is now closed. No one could possibly top that. 🙂 Elizabeth Taylor in _Butterfield 8_. ---
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/18 "2003-03-04T15:10:46Z")
[James Franco](http://www.james-franco.org/pictures/magazines/misc/misc_001.jpg) I just think he’s beautiful. I’ve had a big thing for him since he was on Freaks and Geeks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/19 "2003-03-04T15:24:02Z")
Liz Hurley… because I know my GF would go gay for her… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/20 "2003-03-04T15:35:33Z")
Kate Beckinsale or Kate Winselt or Katie Holmes. Pretty much any Kate. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949.md?page=2)