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17 Oct 2012, 10:29 pm

A self-explanatory Q.
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I am male..... but I am very fond of the female gender. Thusly, I have nothing to say on this Q.


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17 Oct 2012, 10:41 pm

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The best thing about being a woman is the prerogative to have a little fun.


--Shania Twain



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18 Oct 2012, 3:13 am

It means I'd be capable of bearing children if I felt like it. Apart from that, I'm just me.


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18 Oct 2012, 4:04 am

again_with_this wrote:
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The best thing about being a woman is the prerogative to have a little fun.


--Shania Twain


Just to be contentious, yes we get to have a little fun but the men do get to have most of it.

I love being a woman - although I constantly have to put up with stereotypes, I really enjoy challenging them too. For instance, men often assume I am not intelligent. I go along with that for a while, and then demonstrate my intelligence at a key moment. The look on their faces is priceless.



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18 Oct 2012, 6:49 am

To me, it's about being feminine. A feminine woman is: a carefully nurturing, thoughtfully selective, protective creator.



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18 Oct 2012, 7:20 am

It's just gender I guess. It doesn't mean a lot on its own, to me.


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18 Oct 2012, 7:59 am

It means I gots me a pair of boobz. :jocolor:


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18 Oct 2012, 9:04 am

Who_Am_I wrote:
It means I gots me a pair of boobz. :jocolor:


:D Yup. Seriously though, it doesn't affect me to the point where it defines me except on a physical level. I think there is too much focus on what qualities constitute femininity/masculinity when the reality is such a broad range. At least we're out of the "Feminine Mystique" days where if marriage and motherhood didn't complete you then you were a crazy neurotic spinster tearing at the moral fabric of society.



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18 Oct 2012, 9:18 am

It just means I'm not a man.



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18 Oct 2012, 9:33 am

A_floating_moon wrote:
To me, it's about being feminine. A feminine woman is: a carefully nurturing, thoughtfully selective, protective creator.


True, true. I've said this before: Men and women, it's like yin and yang. ;)

Who_Am_I wrote:
It means I gots me a pair of boobz. :jocolor:


XD Love that. :D


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18 Oct 2012, 5:30 pm

Not a lot. What does being a man mean to you?



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19 Oct 2012, 9:13 am

that most of my clothes don't have pockets and I can get pregnant :x but on the other hand, I can wear skirts and makeup without getting funny looks. :)


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19 Oct 2012, 3:25 pm

Mindsigh wrote:
that most of my clothes don't have pockets and I can get pregnant :x but on the other hand, I can wear skirts and makeup without getting funny looks. :)


I second that! The parts I have don't make me who I am and eventually I will not have to worry about pregnancy but I face a whole lot less societal pressure as a tomboyish woman than an effeminate man would.



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20 Oct 2012, 7:33 pm

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Not a lot. What does being a man mean to you?


*shrug* Even though I am male, I did say I have a great deal of respect for my opposite gender. :D


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20 Oct 2012, 7:56 pm

Being a woman in human society means that men don't have to take me seriously and get to make jokes at my expense. Jokes about hormones, body shape/size, hair colour, IQ etc etc.

Not all men... but I find gender jokes against women to be particularly offensive. I know I am extra sensitive about this. Many women even laugh at some of the jokes that make me sad or angry.

I'm having a bad day so I guess on a good day I might say something else... or not lol!



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20 Oct 2012, 10:36 pm

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