puddingmouse wrote:
Fnord wrote:
My alternate female self would likely resemble one of those broken old women you see pushing shopping carts around and sleeping behind dumpsters. I've been through a lot, and I doubt that my female self would have had the physical strength to get through it as well as I have.
Women are tougher than you think they are, particularly mentally.
Would a woman have been able to hold on to a ship's mast in rain and rolling seas while aligning a satcom antenna? Would a woman have been able to load and unload trucks full of 50-pound bags of fertilizer
by hand every day for three weeks straight? Would a woman have been able to carry 70 pounds of telemetry gear and a 30-pound field pack on a three-day hike into the mountains?
No, my female self would have been smaller, weaker, and whinier - she wouldn't have been "pretty", either - and would likely have been dismissed from employment on numerous occasions for asserting her "rights".