# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/41 "2003-03-05T01:51:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*Well, that means the Catwoman outfit would be available… \*\* That was Lee MeriWETHER. Geez. ---
**Author:** ![mozart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mozart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozart)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/42 "2003-03-05T02:13:30Z")
Bart Simson…love the hair style! ---
**Author:** ![Hoople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@Hoople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoople)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/43 "2003-03-05T02:31:28Z")
Chris Cornell. I’d never get anything done though, I’d be too busy playing with myself all day. ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/44 "2003-03-05T02:37:13Z")
Genevieve Gorder of Trading Spaces. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/45 "2003-03-05T02:41:12Z")
Lenny Kravitz without a doubt. ---
**Author:** ![BodiceRipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@BodiceRipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BodiceRipper)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/46 "2003-03-05T03:19:36Z")
russell crowe. or rudolph valentino. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/47 "2003-03-05T04:15:35Z")
Wait now…before we do the big trade-off, do you have any advice for those about to become the gender of which you’ve been a manifestation thus far? I don’t need generic period advice. I think that barring unusual situations I’m probably ready to cope with period. I’m already making a list of people and companies and such that I only want to talk to when I’m PMSing or menstruating, in fact. But all the things that girls don’t talk about. Like…when I go into the locker room at the gym, are people gonna be applying…you know…things that _smell_, like cologne and perfume? If someone does, will the other women in the locker room support me if I threaten to bend back their fingernails until they break, or is it a tolerated activity? And this late-night out-alone-on-streets thing. If I need to be out and about and run across guys, can I just stride along confidently and promise to hand them their balls on the half shell if they don’t leave me the fuck alone, or do I really have to just not go there? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/48 "2003-03-05T04:53:19Z")
**Wilson** , thanks for the Catherine Deneuve poster link! I may have to buy one, I love her. And if this thread were about who I’d want to look like if I were ~40 years older, she’d be my answer! Heck, I’d be pretty happy if I looked as good at my age as she does at hers. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > \*\* > Like…when I go into the locker room at the gym, are people gonna be applying…you know…things that _smell_, like cologne and perfume? If someone does, will the other women in the locker room support me if I threaten to bend back their fingernails until they break, or is it a tolerated activity? > \*\* Yes, it’s a possibility, and yes, it’s tolerated, although I don’t think it’s very common. > [@](#): > > \*\* > And this late-night out-alone-on-streets thing. If I need to be out and about and run across guys, can I just stride along confidently and promise to hand them their balls on the half shell if they don’t leave me the fuck alone, or do I really have to just not go there? \*\* Ah, just the sort of thing I was hoping people would think about before choosing. 😉 I think if you’re going to consider the question in semi-seriousness I think it is important to think about the potential consequences of the choice, and not just pick the first hottie who springs to mind. Because looking hot is not all roses! For instance, if you picked any overtly sexy looking woman as your female body, you’d be likely to run into trouble if you encountered a group of guys while walking alone at night…or even during the day. You’d usually escape suffering nothing worse than catcalls, but if something worse happened there would be some who’d think you were asking for it. A woman who looks like that should know better than to go out alone on the streets at night! Heck, plenty of people would say that _no_ woman should be out alone on the streets at night unless she expects to be treated like “the streets at night” is her place of business. And honestly, I don’t think I know any American women who would feel safe walking any considerable distance alone late at night. Maybe if you had the body of Xena: Warrior Princess… Of course, the upside to choices like, say, **Ukulele Ike** ’s is that you’d never need to worry about wearing a life jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/49 "2003-03-05T05:41:06Z")
[Spike Spiegel](http://greentea.hispeed.com/clover/spike/) from _Cowboy Bebop_. If I haveta go with someone non-animated, at the moment it’d be [Michael Rosenbaum](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Rosenbaum,+Michael) (Lex Luthor on _Smallville_) or maybe [Tom Hardy](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=ss&group=0253754&photo=Ss/0253754/18491.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Hardy,%20Tom%20(I)) (Shinzon from _Nemsis_). When I’m feeling somewhat rounder it’s Michael McManus or maybe Billy Zane. 😃 … kinda says something that I think about this so much … ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/50 "2003-03-05T06:21:29Z")
Robbie Williams, he’s such a naughty boy with a cheeky grin. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/51 "2003-03-05T10:41:48Z")
I dunno, maybe Laetitia Casta. ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/52 "2003-03-05T14:30:16Z")
Ah, yes Laetitia Casta is a good choice. I could also go for the Winona Ryder look or Salma Hayek. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/53 "2003-03-05T15:29:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragonblink \* > \*\*When I’m feeling somewhat rounder it’s Michael McManus or maybe Billy Zane. 😃 > \*\* I have a dear friend who’s done drag as Michael McManus (as Kai). She has lovely long black hair, and is able to achieve the proper style without the use of any extensions, although she sometimes stuffs a sock inside for padding. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/54 "2003-03-06T22:35:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lamia \* > \*\*although she sometimes stuffs a sock inside for padding. \*\* Wait … inside the hair or inside the pants? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-want-to-look-like-if-you-were-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex/158949/55 "2003-03-07T01:40:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragonblink \* > \*\*Wait … inside the hair or inside the pants? 😃 \*\* Both, actually! [Previous 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)