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Do you think you would make a good member of the opposite sex? Not as a tranny or whatever but as a fully fledged proper boy / girl? (I ask because I have tied my hair back to keep cool and glanced at myself in the lift mirror and thought 'help, I look like a boy. I would be a terrible boy!')

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes

― maryann, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think i would dress better but i know i do not have enough of a sense of planning to deal with the monthly bleeding orifice.

― anthony, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes. Do you just mean physically? I suppose I'm a bit tall.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

By using the words 'not as a tranny.. but as a fully fledged b/g' I had hoped to avoid people thinking I meant just physically. Oh well. I cannot imagine me as a boy. I cannot think of a boy's name I would want to be called and I would not like to have to drink only beer and only having one way of doing my hair. And I don't know if I could memorise all the useless facts about football, music, sci-fi etc.

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought the no-tranny bit might have just meant a more permanent arrangement with surgery and stuff.

Anyway, yes. But I don't want to go too deeply into this for fear of looking like a GIRL.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always thought that the term "opposite sex" was a bit misleading. It doesn't follow that the fact there are two (biologically recognised) genders renders them implicitly opposite, especially when it is clear that males and females share a great many characteristics, probably more than they don't have in common, and the distinction is in relative degrees, proportions, than in binary oppositions.

From this POV m and f are much closer that probably a lot of social, cultural condition would have us believe, even physically, so the answer, at last, must be a resounding 'yes'. (as to whether good or not, well that's a whole other discussion!)

― Loop Dandy, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish I'd never asked. I think there are lots of differences but in a good way. Although of course some men do have big man breasts so perhaps you are right.

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well as you said yourself you thought you looked like a boy, at a glance... it's not just about tits: many boys are effeminate, in looks, behaviour, both or either, etc, many girls masculine, etc...

I think I would make a good bad girl... not sure that I've ever made much of a 'man', but who cares!

― Loop Dandy, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think i am a nancy. But that is a male construct.

― anthony, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Right, I do not in general (in fact almost never) look like a boy, OK? I am wearing a pink top and skirt for starters. It was just an early morning glance-in-the-mirror thing which set me to wondering.....

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

... and I "almost never" look like a girl, but a pink top and skirt might help towards the illusion. When I was younger I used to get mistaken for a girl, bus drivers would call me 'love' and then get embarrassed and cough deeply when they realised my gender, sometimes they would apologise, which I thought quite hilarious... not that I cared, it was more to do with their own sexuality based insecurities and the fact that someone might think they were a poof for calling a bloke 'love'... he he

― Loop Dandy, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I had long hair (half way down my back at its worst) not only was I often mistaken for a girl, but I once managed to mistake myself for a girl...

Don't think I make a particularly good boy, so I'm sure I wouldn't be a good girl either.

― alex thomson, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your arms a quite butch these days though Emma after all that working out - and if you don't shave for a week you start to get Tom's Beard.

― Pete, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mark s = dangerously gorgeous tomboyish girl in somewhat chunky middle-aged man's body, and that's exactly how i like it...

― mark s, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete, if ever my sessions in the gym start to produce visible results I will probably die of shock. I do use a boy's razor but not on my face. On further reflection and following a trip round Top Shop I have decided that I neither look like nor feel like a boy. I take back the entire thread.

― Emma, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I was a boy, I'd probably be gay.

― Ally, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You ARE gay. I would make a terrible woman. My shoulders are as broad as a broad.

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i make a terrible guy as it is...too fucking lazy to make it as a woman - even women who don't wear make up have to do so much shit just to "please" others re looks, actions etc...fuck, if i was a woman, I'd be the scraggiest, hairiest, dies3el dyke butch bitch just to piss everyone else off...as a male, i'm kindof inbetweens

― Geoff, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body, my cousin said so. But seriously Mike, what?

― Ally, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I meant you are happy

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A couple of months ago (when I had really long hair) I was talking to a dole-scrounger on the bus, and he asks me what my name is. "Graham" "But you are a girl, right?". Also good for scaring off beggars at the station "Spare any change, love? -- Uh, sorry." [Tries to become invisible]

I think I'm quite girly, but I'd make an entirely inept girl. But then if I was actually a girl, I'd probably be a lot better at it. hmmm.

― Graham, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would be an excellent girl, except for my lack of interest in fashion and shopping. Actually, on second thoughts..

― Ally C, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm rather excellent at being a boy who thinks he'd make an excellent girl. I'd suck at the *real thing* for shooore.

― Simon(e), Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm a self-loathing misogynist, therefore I must be a woman.

― Dave M., Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Occasional ILE poster Colin Clarke writes like a girl.

― AP, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like the additional wardrobe range, finally maybe find something cool to wear if I was 5'6" and female instead of 6'3" and male (with size 12 feet). I don't think I'd like getting less respect from men, or unwanted sexual advances from gross-ass men. God help me if I got less respect from people at work; the Gatling gun would *have* to come out at that point....

― Chris, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only good thing about being female is looking better and occasionally getting free shit. Otherwise it's really not much of a lot. And this monthly bleeding bullshit has to go.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally, get yourself up the duff. Or take the pill right through if you can't bear the stretchmarks and puffy ankles.

― Emma, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oi, why's everyone want me to be preggers?

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The joyous prospect of the pitter patter of Baby Ally feet?

― Emma, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That would be one messed up kid. "What are you doing?" "Giving the baby a drink, she's thirsty." "YOU CAN'T FEED THE BABY VODKA!"

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally, don't know if you get Harry Enfield out there but there was a character on it called Waynetta Slob who carried on in a similar vein with her baby Frogmella.

― Emma, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Q: Who dat is? A: Dat's just my Baby Ally!

I recognize that I am probably only amusing myself here.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would never name a baby that. That's a terrible name. I'd probably just forget to feed it, like I forget to buy myself food half the time. It'd die of starvation, and I'd be all, oh well, guess I have to get another one. Like a Tamagotchi.

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

u can buy bootleg babiez in chinatown for 12 bucks.

― junichiro, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bootleg babies? Do they come with an ill-fitting photocpy of a diaper?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also: my other post was in reference to this , possibly the wrongest single released in 1996. Imagine a Miami bass version of "To Be Real" with these lyrics rapped over the top by the most ignorant-sounding man in the universe (talking to the most ignorant-sounding woman with the worst kewpie-doll voice in the universe). Someday I will own a copy of this song.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am almost 100% sure I have that song on a compilation CD, Dan - where shall I send it? ;)

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

People are drunk. Revive!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

what's it about?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you think you would make a good member of the opposite sex?

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

no.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

threadkillah

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

you think you'd make an OK girl?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG, you know i love you *kiss*

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not gay.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd love to be a girl.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

not on my account, I hope.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

you are insane.
this is me:
http://homepage.mac.com/radio_free_albemuth/PhotoAlbum33.html
http://homepage.mac.com/radio_free_albemuth/Chelsea/PhotoAlbum20.html

but you knew that and i am just patting you on the head because you are drunk.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

orbit, pick a fight w/ latebloomer.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i like latebloomer, and therefore NOOO!

and to asnwer my own question, i think i would make an ok guy, but i would probably gender atypical; i'd like to cook and would probably be a little too cheerful. my face isn't very guylike though, and i'm only 5'8 so maybe that wouldn't really work. and i wouldn't want that annoying flesh thingie hanging down and getting in the way all the time.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't have a tongue?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what--did Aja get bored with you?

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

like Opposite Day?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 22 February 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm the opposite of every guy you've ever met.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

wouldn't want that annoying flesh thingie hanging down and getting in the way all the time.

-- Orbit (cstarrcstar...) (webmail), February 22nd, 2004. (Orbit)

It doesn't get in the way, Orbit. It's more that everything else gets in _its_ way.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 22 February 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm the opposite of every guy you've ever met.

so is gabbneb

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 22 February 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'd make wuite a good girl.
Though I'd be a lesbian onviously.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 22 February 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Two lots of breast to play with!

― mei (mei), Sunday, 22 February 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Orbit, why would being 5'8" mean that you wouldn't be very convincing as a guy?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 22 February 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

1. No

but

2. Do I make a good version of what I am? Not necessarily.

― the firefox, Sunday, 22 February 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I could make a half-decent member of the opposite sex. I've seen a movie. I'll have to look into it a bit more.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be an awful girl.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 22 February 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I can be an awful girl.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

I think I'd make a pretty good boy.

I have the fridge for it. I'm good with facts and figures and mechanical manipulation of space and all those boybrain things. I'm terrible at ringing people back. And I'm socially inept.

Would it mean I'd have to start liking football, though?

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

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