Quote from: MacG on April 17, 2015, 01:21:32 PM
I don't care about my kneecap location, but I have the fattest milk maiden legs. In. The. World.
Haha oh man that is the best description ever, I love it.
As for the OP...I wasn't even aware of this being a thing. I wear shorts for as long as humanly possible, to the point where it's become a running joke among the people I know. I actually remember one girl staring at my legs (this was after I told her about my past) and she goes "how could you have ever been a girl at any point? They are so hairy." My arms are shorter as well and I just joke about being like a T rex. I don't think it matters to most people. I'm just a stocky little hobbit.
Plus even though
generally XY people have longer legs than XX people, this is only a general thing. Bodies vary. It's like saying men on average have a 5-6 inch penis, there's tons of guys who only sport 3 incher, or on average men are 5'8" or higher, many men are shorter. I had a cis male friend at university who was shorter than me, had a relatively high voice, some feminine mannerisms, and other features that are atypical for someone born male. This was back when I was out not by choice but by circumstance, and I remember being with him one day. He had a full beard and all. But one day we were together and when he left, I was talking to a girl that was with us. She was one of those "I'm so liberal I've dated lots of trans guys and and I know all about teh tranz" types lol. And she goes on about how nice it is that a guy who is further along is helping me and supporting me and stuff. And I'm like, what, A isn't trans lol. But she goes on about how she thought he was and whether or not I was "sure." I am fairly sure because his name was so ugly that no man would ever choose it for himself, lol, plus one time he was going commando in his shorts and I got a glimpse of his balls.
Only reason I'm telling this story is to show that there's no point in wondering what people are gonna think about your features. Most people won't care, but even people who claim they can "tell" based on features can be wrong too. My attitude is that if someone looks at something about me and thinks that I "must" be born female is that they're only making an assumption. Yes, in my case, there is truth to the assumption - but how many cis men have they "clocked"? haha. Like my cis friend who got "clocked" as trans. And I have two ways I can take it. I used to think "oh man people could tell if they looked closely, will they embarrass me in public by asking or saying something? What will they think? I don't want them to think of me as not being a 'real man.'" Or I can think to myself that "they made an assumption and that their problem, they don't know me." Those who are close to me know me as a man and respect me, and only those I have outed myself to are aware of my history. Everyone else in my life doesn't question my manhood so if some randomer wants to focus on my little legs or my voice or my facial features, and assume that I am born a female without knowing the details, meh. They're not worth my energy. If someone was rude enough to mention something about "trans" in relation to me, in my presence, I'd make their dumbassery known, because it's extremely rude and invasive to make assumptions about someone's body or someone's life without knowing them and hearing it from them personally.
