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Would you "come back' as a man?

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MissAdventure Tue 03-May-22 08:27:01

Assuming the option was available?

leeds22 Wed 04-May-22 11:53:08

Definitely. Never a girlie girl, climbed trees, hated dolls, hated wearing skirts, rounded up the cows, totally envied boys. Heaven knows how I managed to find two husbands.

JdotJ Wed 04-May-22 11:52:52

No thank you

Grammajules Wed 04-May-22 11:49:28

The way the world is going, I think in 20 years or less the sexes will merge. We’ve come a long way since Emily Pankhurst.
Yes you are born male or female but lets face it you can change your gender already, causing sometimes a multitude of problems, but the world is changing. For the better?
But yes, I’m happy being a woman, maybe ‘being’ a man for a few days would be an insight .
It’s probably already been done on some Tv show…
Maybe in schools they should have a ‘switch gender day’
Well there’s a day for everything else isn’t there…

Neilspurgeon0 Wed 04-May-22 11:48:52

Can I turn this on its head? I am a bearded man who is not especially macho, but never in a million years would I consider coming back as a woman. The dangly bits, for info, are more comfy if they can swing in baggy boxers rather than being constrained in tight, over warm Y fronts but otherwise, once one has passed through the just as awkward for boys as girls teenage puberty time, hang comfortably out the way, but not having to consider emotions and ignoring, or mostly not even noticing, upsetting things, frees one to concentrate on the important things in life, mostly one’s career,

I have been lucky in my choice of wife and, mostly, my children and GC but my choice of career was many times more significant than anything else in my life and, now I am retired, am ok but a bit lost. I think this might be the biggest actual difference, the investment of everything meaningful into a career rather than any emotional way of being.

Missingmoominmama Wed 04-May-22 11:44:52

I can’t multitask, but like being a woman who does what she wants. My friends were, and still are, both male and female, and I honestly don’t see much difference in attitudes, but that’s maybe because our interests are similar.

I wouldn’t like to have missed out on giving birth though.

absent Wed 04-May-22 01:16:09

I don't want to "come back" as anything except, perhaps, a pampered cat.

mokryna Tue 03-May-22 23:27:51

It’s a man’s world as the song goes and although I am very comfortable being a woman it would be interesting to know what it’s like to be a man.

biglouis Tue 03-May-22 23:11:45

Ive always hated being a woman and definitely think we get the dirty end of the stick. Periods. childbirth, menopause and all that horrible, messy painful stuff. Men have nothing like that to put up with.

MissAdventure Tue 03-May-22 23:06:16

As, not and.

MissAdventure Tue 03-May-22 23:05:41

We could get together and men mates.
Have a few beers and a game of pool? smile

NotTooOld Tue 03-May-22 22:53:23

Well, I'm currently doing the woman thing so, yes, I would come back as a man, just for a change. Why not? I'd have long hair though, can't abide the shaved head look. Might also have an earring, just for fun. The dangly bits wouldn't bother me. I'd wear tight pants, not boxers. Boxers under trousers? Weird. Oh, and I'd resemble a young Rafa Nadal. That should be fun.

Catterygirl Tue 03-May-22 22:28:36

So happy to be a woman but climbed trees and built dens with male school friends around the age of 10. Both dad’s were engineers and step dad taught me welding and car repairs. I am thoroughly female and love dressing up but not today’s plumped up lips.

Honeysuckleberries Tue 03-May-22 22:28:25

No I would come back as my cat.

eazybee Tue 03-May-22 22:11:41

Good Lord no.
Absolutely No!

Serendipity22 Tue 03-May-22 22:01:38

Absolute no way hosay.

I like the fact I am a woman, can do 1,000000 things at the same time, can perceive situations/people before all is revealed and a VAST amount of other boxes that have a huge tick in them.

smilesmilesmilesmile

SueDonim Tue 03-May-22 16:51:17

No, I wouldn’t want to be a man. I wouldn’t have minded being my brother, though. My mum preferred boys plus he’s sailed through life without ever worrying about anything. I think the latter is more about character than sex, though.

M0nica Tue 03-May-22 16:32:47

I honestly do not know, I spent my childhood wanting to be a boy, I was always described as a tomboy, but puberty, and being throughly hetero sexual, reconciled me to being a girl and as an adult I have had a highly satisfactory life, happily married, but always preferring to work and feeling most at home in a male environment. I am not remotely flirtatious, so never tried to play any basic Instinct tricks, so never had any problems.

The jury is still out.

Shelflife Tue 03-May-22 16:27:24

Froglady, ( love your name and think I know now why you chose it! ) Nature does indeed make mistakes , it always amazes me that a person is made in just 4O Weeks!! No wonder development doesn't always go to plan . As you say people now have options and gender reassignment will in time become much more familiar to people than it is now. I sincerely wish you well - be happy ?

VioletSky Tue 03-May-22 16:04:33

I don't really know how reincarnation works, I probsbly wouldn't have any memory of being me....

I wouldn't mind being a man, or even being a straight man, in theory at least....

What I dont know is if that would feel right for me once it actually happened if i did have some sort of memory because of all the things i love about being a woman and a mother.

HousePlantQueen Tue 03-May-22 15:56:26

Blossoming

No, I’d come back as a cat.

Same here. I would come back as my own cat.

Namsnanny Tue 03-May-22 12:58:52

Well, my health has been blighted by all things female from the age of 13 till now.
So I would definitely give it a go.
Checking and shifting ones tackle around 50,000 times a day not with standing. (I had brothers who drove me up the wall over this as a teen!)

timetogo2016 Tue 03-May-22 12:30:23

Lol you would if you had the mans bit MissA.

MissAdventure Tue 03-May-22 11:41:24

Ooh I don't think I'd be able to "go" outside.

Wheniwasyourage Tue 03-May-22 11:38:31

No, I wouldn't, although there are times when a dangly bit would be handy if one was caught short when outside...

MissAdventure Tue 03-May-22 11:15:19

Queuing up to get out, I reckon!