Anyone else not feel like a woman?

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I feel that calling myself a "woman" would mean attributing certain characteristics to myself that don't exactly describe me, so even though I'm technically a woman I tend to refer to myself as "a girl" or, somewhat more awkwardly, "a female." Normally I don't even participate in the "women's discussion" sub-forum just because I don't think of myself as a woman.

Eventually I'll be too old to shamelessly call myself a girl, though. So when that happens, what do you suggest I do?

I know what you mean. It feels awkward. However, I refer to the males I know as "guys" and not men. Perhaps it's a cultural thing and the words man and woman are reserved for people we perceive as having more gravitas than we have.

I'm also reluctant, to call myself a woman. I feel that I'm too imature to be a woman, and I also feel that I'm more male, than female.

I don't really know what it's like to feel like a woman or a man. I don't really feel like either - I'm just me. A lot of it, though, I think is stereotypes and a lot of women don't fit them.

I have a weird thing against the word "woman", I don't know what it is but it's so cringe-y to have to refer to myself with it. I'm fine with girl, and I'm young enough to use it all the time but I know one day I won't be.. which scares me a bit. It's not even that I'm not feminine or have any problem with myself, I just think woman goes too far. It makes me sound like I should be watching romantic comedies and moaning about men and acting like they do on sex and the city.. which I will never do, ha.

I'd quite like to be called hybrid, androgyne or mutant, but I realize that people would find that very disturbing.

i don't, but that's because im not

I totally agree with this. I just feel like me

I live as a man. I was born a woman. I think of myself as a "guy," but not "man." When I was a few years younger I thought of myself as a boy. But there are times when I feel like something else entirely, though never as female despite genitalia to the contrary.

I like to use "males" instead of "men" just because it's more inclusive (most males I've met are still in the "not a boy not yet a man" phase and for some reason I'm not comfortable with the word "guys"), but I've been told that the term "males" is offensive to [those who consider themselves] men because it emasculates them. Or something.

It is weird, though, how most males of a certain age range readily refer to themselves as men whereas most females of the same age range seem to prefer the word "girls."

I am not a woman. I am female with male traits. However, I do often use the two words interchangeably because it's much easier for people to understand.

I refer to myself as a girl still. I don't know what it takes really to fully transition into a woman anyway. I thought it was just completing puberty but apparently that's not true.

That's an interesting point. When you consider brain development, I would say you're just about there. The brain isn't fully developed until about 19 to 23. (I believe that's the age bracket, anyway.)

Sooo after college then? That seems about right. I'll be all grown up with a degree and stuff. XD

Ditto. But sometimes I refer to myself has a "Geek".