Would you prefer to be a different gender?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

i would much rather have been a boy. its just easier. now its not so much that i want to get surgery to become a boy now. or even that i will start adopting male clothing. but if i were to have a choice to do life over again, i would prefer to be a boy.

so are you happy with your gender?

[judaspriestess]

1. me very happy being a chick

:evilgrin:

If I could change anything, I would like to be taller, 5'4" is kinda lame, oh well

[Left Is Write]

2. No. To steal a line, I enjoy being a girl.

[Phillycat]

3. No way. I love being female.

I think we are better looking. :D Not that I don't enjoy a fine specimen of male...

[reyd reid reed]

4. Nope.

Can't even conceive of being anything else. Wouldn't want to, either.

[BarenakedLady]

5. Yes

Then I can freely be a dick and not care about anything but my dick.

:rofl:

My apologies to the guys for my over-generalization.

:hide:

[LeftyMom]

6. I kinda like the body I've got.

:shrug:

[grace0418]

7. Currently I am have the worst cramps ever so I would have to say yes.

But most of the time I'm perfectly happy being female.

[lukasahero]

8. I am very comfortable in my own skin.

I love being a woman.

[Book Lover]

9. I don't want the equipment, I just want the respect

[LostinVA]

11. Bingo

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. thats what i mean when i say its easier to be a man...

[lildreamer316]

72. HELLo.

So true.
At this poiny; just from mechanics would be nice.
And electricians.
And plumbers.

[miss_american_pie]

10. Yes, and no

The whole having babies thing is way cool.

[struggle4progress]

46. I wouldn't know but I've heard women complain about babies with big heads.

[miss_american_pie]

63. My kids were each over ten pounds

The linebacker shoulders were much worse than the big heads. ;)

[MorningGlow]

13. I want to be a middle-aged overweight white male

Who golfs. Apparently, even though this is the 21st century, they're still the ones who get automatic respect, steady promotions, and the big bucks.

Then again, they also are the ones who have the most bypass surgery, so on second thought, nah. I'll stay a chick. After all, according to my belief system, I chose to be female this time around, I've been male before, and I prolly will be again! :)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

52. Hey, that's me!

Well, except for the part about getting respect. And the part about money. Oh, yeah, and the part about golf. And the promotions.

But the part about middle-aged and overweight? Nailed it!

[MorningGlow]

57. LOL!

Better check again--maybe you have a huge 401K and white-collar VP kind of job and you just didn't know it!

[raccoon]

14. Yes.

I'd rather have been a boy.

I don't see how, in our society or most that I've ever heard of, a girl could NOT want to be a boy. It may have changed somewhat (I hope) in the last few decades, since the women's movement.

From the get-go, girls get the message that boys are more important. For instance, that your parents wanted a boy to carry on the family name.

And think of the things people say:

"She can run as fast/jump as far/swim as well as any boy."

And the way boys/men are sometimes referred to as "girls" or "ladies" in a derisive manner.

As long as we live in a patriarchal society, I'm afraid that's the way it will be.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. thats exactly how i feel about it.

[RetroLounge]

15. I am fine with my gender

But I would like to be a woman just to understand better things from their perspective.

and sleep with Johnny Depp...

RL

[La Lioness Priyanka]

dude i am a woman. and i never got to do depp.

[RetroLounge]

30. I'll gladly go Poly with you and Depp!

:loveya:

RL

[Book Lover]

16. What, no guys want to be chicks?

Amazing how only women (so far) have replied to this thread. Telling.

on edit: Sorry, RL! You posted just before I did...

[TOhioLiberal]

17. Yes and no...

I enjoy being a woman; but I've alway wondered what *IT* is like for a man.

[Tyo]

18. Being a guy is the greatest

I don't think that the extra few years you gals get is anywhere near enough compensation for what you have to put up with in life.

[eyepaddle]

22. My theory is that those extra years are to make up for the time

spent waiting to use the restroom in long lines. :hide:

Seriously, there is quite a "restroom mismatch" in bars and venues and such.

[Tyo]

28. I've noticed that

Although not in the bars we usually go to.

But in theaters and places like that you folks are always stuck in a line. What's up with that anyway? Now that Nancy P is the most powerful woman in the world maybe she'd like the address that issue. :-)

[hunter]

20. I wonder what society would be like if we shifted back and forth over the years?

Like one year you'd be a man, the next year a woman...

[LostinVA]

65. Like the Virginia Woolf story/movie "Orlando

Except, that was switching during different lifetimes. Very interesting story, and the movie was decently done.

[JVS]

21. No way. I'm happy the way I am

[buddhamama]

23. i'm happy being me

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. I like bein' a guy, but

I've wished at times I could do a kind of "Black Like Me" thing to help me understand what women go through.

[datasuspect]

25. David Bowie said it best:

1.2.3.4
Heaven loves ya
The clouds part for ya
Nothing stands in your way
When you're a boy

Clothes always fit ya
Life is a pop of the cherry
When you're a boy

When you're a boy
You can wear a uniform
When you're a boy
Other boys check you out
You get a girl
These are your favourite things
When you're a boy

Boys
Boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out

Uncage the colours
Unfurl the flag
Luck just kissed you hello
When you're a boy

They'll never clone ya
You're always first on the line
When you're a boy

When you're a boy
You can buy a home of your own
When you're a boy
Learn to drive and everything
You'll get your share
When you're a boy

Boys
Boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out

[Mad_Dem_X]

26. In junior high, I wanted desperately to be a boy

Going thru puberty and all that, not very popular...I thought that boys had it *so* much easier. Occasionally, I still wonder what it would have been like had I been born male, but usually I am happy (and proud!) to be female.

[LaraMN]

27. Not in the least!

I remember as a kid thinking how glad I was that I was a girl, and how much it would have sucked to have been born a boy (although had I been male, of course, I might likely have felt otherwise!) I was thrilled to have a daughter after my first son was born so that I could indulge in all things pretty and girly with her, and fortunately for my feminine compulsions, she's not a tomboyish type. Having sons has allowed me to appreciate the male experience of life a bit more, but my gender quite thoroughly suits me!

[Lowell]

29. Happy with the equipment I got

no change for me. Besides, I'd have to go out and get an all new wardrobe. Bummer.

[AllegroRondo]

31. I think it would be fun to try for a week

but not permanently.

[hunter]

35. I'd probably be pregnant.

My wife would LOVE to see that, for so many different reasons, not all of them nice.

"Hah, hah, Mister!"

I'd probably have to have a C-section too, and I HATE surgery.

[Patiod]

32. My S.O. shakes his head & says "you're such a dude"

sometimes when my coarser side comes out.

I'm not the world's most girly girl (it's hard to be ultra femme when you're almost 6' tall with a swimmer's body) but I found a guy who is cool with it, and I'm cool with his artsy side, so it's all good.

If you had asked during my uterine fibroids nightmare, I would have switched genders in a heartbeat, but now that the fibroids are fixed and I've spent the last 3 weeks helping my dad who is on a catheter because of his prostate, I'm starting to see that there are downsides to both types of plumbing....

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. Absolutely not!

:hi: :D I'm very happy being female. Even with the fun of periods and other so-called "female" issues. :P

[ceile]

34. Heck no! Boys are dumb!

:P

[El Fuego]

36. I'd be a girly-girl even if I were a guy.

So it's probably best that I'm a girl.

[pdx_prog]

37. I wouldn't mind being a woman for a day or two....

The grass is not always greener though!

Men...

Pot bellies
Balding (more prominent than women)
Althletes foot
The older you get the higher your pants have to be pulled up
Prostate problems


Women...

Periods
Mammograms
pap smears
childbirth
Yeast infections

[Rob H.]

38. I'd switch for a day or so, but not permanently

Mainly just to see what it's like to be on the "other side," so to speak.

[UncleSepp]

39. Nope.

*grin* Loves ya, Priyanka!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

40. how are you ? and i *totally* believe you

:P

[UncleSepp]

60. Hangin in there. Life marches on and yadda.

How have you been?

[Blue-Jay]

41. Maybe for a day, so that I could play with my boobs.

[bigwillq]

42. No

I like being a dude.


:hi:

[One_Life_To_Give]

43. Sometimes

There are times when I think I would be much happier being a woman.
Clothing is so much better looking and your actually expected to not look like everybody else.

[Nikia]

44. Maybe

Being a male would definitely have its advantages. Many men are so anti female though that they hassle other men who are not maculine enough. I don't know if such men would judge me masculine enough if I were male, although some of those same men did not think that I was feminine enough as I am. I just want it alright to be myself.

[SPKrazy]

45. No-But I'll Admit

I don't feel a lot in common with the average redneck guy where I live

and it's hard to find guys that aren't the average redneck guy to hang with around here

but no, I don't think I'd rather have been a woman

I think I wish more men were less redneck and more mellow

[Gormy Cuss]

47. Not the other one that is currently available.

Now if some new and interesting extra-terrestrial genders become available, that would be a different story.

[struggle4progress]

48. Yes. Except I have trouble understanding women. Do you think if ..

.. I were a woman, I would understand women better, or would I just have trouble understanding myself?

Come to think of it, I don't understand myself very well anyway...

[Nikia]

49. There are some "female" things that I don't understand very well

Like being obsessed with shoes.

[struggle4progress]

53. Well, that's yet another good reason for me to be happy being male:

I really just don't like shoes that much and would rather be barefoot. I did finally start wearing shoes again regularly when I realized that even really thick callouses can only go so far in protecting bare feet, but shoe fetishism still gives me the heebie-jeebies ...

[Lady President]

50. Today is pay day.... so yes

In general, I'm happy being a woman. However, today is pay day, and I know that the men in my department make more than the women. It still happens. :(

(As an fyi, I live in Ohio where the job market still sucks. I'm lucky to have a job that pays the bills, so I'm in no position to complain.)

[Digit]

51. I love being female, and glad I only had a female child

Of course I may have felt differently had I actually given birth to a boy.

[jpgray]

54. No. I only just now figured out how all the parts work.

[trof]

55. Yes. I just don't know which one.

:shrug:

[u4ic]

56. If I were to do it over again,

I'd stay female - except I would want to grow up in a female-friendly atmosphere.

[Generic Brad]

58. I am what I am

I don't really care about gender, sexual preference, etc. I care about what a person does, not how they look. It made a difference to me ten to twenty years ago. Now it no longer makes a difference in my eyes.

[Aristus]

59. If I could get you to fall in love with me, lioness...

I'd be a woman in no time, flat! :-) :loveya:

[Labors of Hercules]

61. the experience...

Seeing and feeling the feminine body as a man is powerful and sublime.
I can't imagine it would be nearly as much so were I a woman myself.

[Jamastiene]

62. I feel the same about wanting to be a guy, but I'd go for the

sex reassignment surgery so fast, it would make people's heads spin. Never have liked women's clothing or even shopping for clothing. I dread that with a passion. If I was a guy, I could write my name in the snow too. :rofl:

Another observation about men:
They can treat women however they wish and the women will make every excuse in the book for them. The world is set up to let men do as they wish while women suffer and do all the work and take all the blame. Hell, even the "war on terror" is set up to blame women. They make it seem as though the women are so horrible that men will blow themselves to bits just to get 72 virgins, although I wonder why they'd want virgins to be honest. :shrug:

Anyhoo, women are blamed for everything bad in the world and men get to do as they wish while we hear even their own mothers say, "Boys will be boys." Meanwhile, women have to do everything 100 times better than men just to get recognized as successful while men always get paid more. Dammit.

BTW, I'm PMS'ing and PMDD'ing right now. Men, look out if you plan to reply to this. The gloves are off and Lorena Bobbit is a hero of mine. I cannot be deported because I was born here. Grrrrrrr..... I feel this way normally, but hide it for the sake of common courtesy. Not now. Now, I have a bone to pick and if I have to use your own bone to pick you clean with, so be it.

That is all for now. :evilgrin:

[cwydro]

64. Very happy to be female.

[BikeWriter]

66. If I had boobs I'd never get anything done.

[Bassic]

67. Me neither

:evilgrin:

[BikeWriter]

68. Those things are hypnotic, aren't they?

[Bassic]

69. Very much so.

Sometimes it's hard not to stare rudely.

[MsKandice01]

70. Nah...

As much as I say that I'm a gay man trapped inside a woman's body (and not the kind who are good at fashion and interior decorating), I don't think I'd change it. I'm starting to love who I am...but the pressure to be a girly girl, which I definitely am NOT, has had me, on many occasions, wishing I was a man.

[FedUpWithIt All]

71. If i could change for a limited time and return to my own...

in a heartbeat.

I have always been curious about how different we really are.

:hi: lionesspriyanka

[soleft]

73. I feel the same way you do

[Bum Whisperer]

74. Things are just fine...

...with the world being my urinal. Either way, I'd still be a lesbian.

[Skittles]

75. I would like the innate privileges of being a man

but no f***ing WAY would I want to BE one. HELL NO!!!