A Self-Made-Man girl discovers that life as a man is harder

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You know you suck when ... someone of the opposite sex, who was raised and has always lived as the opposite gender, performs orders of magnitude better as your own gender than you ever will.

I don't know what you mean by that question.

Take that, deniers!


This is a precious, a very precious experiment, I wonder if they did a filmed documentary about it.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Entertainmen ... id=1526982

"“Living as a man taught me a lot about the things I most enjoyed about being a woman in the world, things I consider to be the privileges of womanhood—the emotional freedom, the range of expression, the sexual and social power we can exercise over men. Returning to my life as a woman was about reclaiming those privileges and taking greater satisfaction in them. Here’s one small example, which may sound hopelessly old-fashioned and silly, but it made me smile so warmly: The other day a clerk in a store turned to me and apologized for having to refer to pornography in front of me during a discussion he was having with a male customer. I found it very thoughtful and sweet. When a man does something like this now, I connect again with all the vulnerability that I felt as a man in front of women, and I remember all the conversations I had with the men in my men’s group about their need to take care of and protect women. Not all men behave the way this clerk did, of course, but nonetheless I feel a deep sense of the respect that men like him have for women and I feel grateful for it. It’s nice to feel that someone is looking out for you, or trying to, and worries about offending or debasing you even in speech, and this is something I never felt as a man.

It took me months. Probably a good six months to really get back into being a woman. And this is partly because I had some unpacking to do. It wasn’t just a matter of returning to myself, because I am a different person now than I was before I embarked on this project. I feel more womanly now, more in touch with my femininity, than I ever did before I lived as Ned, and that has taken some getting used to, though it has been very pleasant.

I don’t miss anything about being Ned. The few social advantages I discovered in manhood—the swagger, the self-confidence, the entitlement—I’ve learned to incorporate into my life as a woman. Everything else I was happy to discard.”

-Norah Vincent on being Ned for 1.5 year"

I wasn't talking about most men. Those were my impressions, and she certainly ran circles around me as a man. Going on thirty dates in a year and a half is impressive enough to me, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.

I may have a slightly more masculine build than she appeared to have, and be about two inches taller, none of which means any merit on my part, because I was simply born this way. In absolutely every other regard, she pwn3d me.

I have to disagree with having "emotional freedom" as a woman. If women are emotional, they are said to be *itchy or having PMS or bipolar.

Well, look how I see it.

She is probably, one of the very few humans in human history who has experienced both worlds first hand.

So what she says has way more credibility than what you say. No offense.

I wasn't talking about most men. Those were my impressions, and she certainly ran circles around me as a man. Going on thirty dates in a year and a half is impressive enough to me, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.

I may have a slightly more masculine build than she appeared to have, and be about two inches taller, none of which means any merit on my part, because I was simply born this way. In absolutely every other regard, she pwn3d me.

That because women need someone to represent them - a man to dress like a woman. Can you help us Boo?