If you had a choice...

[Shana A]

The polls in some of these forums can get downright bizarre.  i.e. would you rather live your life as a coffee cup or as a vacuum cleaner, but you couldn't pick what color you would be or which outlet you would be plugged into.

I suppose in the case of my example, I would choose coffee cup.  Just because I like drinking coffee and I hate cleaning.

I'd also choose being a coffee cup. Being a vacuum cleaner would really suck, literally    >

ba-dump

y2g

[Lisbeth]

But how?
How could you live as a woman anyhow? I dress a man, walk like a man, am a man, and yet... No one else sees it. The only people who don't 'ma'am' me are those who know my situation. I suppose I could go for a legal name change, but what would be the point? The world doesn't see a man. The world sees a butch woman.
So how can one live as their true gender anyhow?

I suspect it was easier in the past.  We have become such a minimalist society that it's hard to hide our biology.  In past ages, people wore massively elaborate costumes that could overpower other gender cues.  When all you have are jeans and a t-shirt, it doesn't leave much to the imagination.

The polls in some of these forums can get downright bizarre.  i.e. would you rather live your life as a coffee cup or as a vacuum cleaner, but you couldn't pick what color you would be or which outlet you would be plugged into.

I suppose in the case of my example, I would choose coffee cup.  Just because I like drinking coffee and I hate cleaning.

I'd also choose being a coffee cup. Being a vacuum cleaner would really suck, literally    >

ba-dump

y2g

Oh, I'd be a vacuum cleaner.  I swallow, too.

[Kate]

I suspect it was easier in the past.  We have become such a minimalist society that it's hard to hide our biology.  In past ages, people wore massively elaborate costumes that could overpower other gender cues.  When all you have are jeans and a t-shirt, it doesn't leave much to the imagination.

Well, like the Madonna song says...

Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots...

Females have much more freedom of expression. Normally that's a good thing, but in this case it makes it so much harder to "make a statement." I mean geezus, a female throws on a male dress shirt and she's sexy... but a male throws on a dress and he's a (supposed) pervert.

~Kate~

[Patroklos]

You're right, Kate. It's so damned frustrating.

[Nero]

Oh, I'd be a vacuum cleaner.  I swallow, too.

*wiping screwdriver off monitor* hah! I LOVE IT!!!!!! I swallow, too!

[Suzie]

Oh, I'd be a vacuum cleaner.  I swallow, too.

ewww

[Nero]

Oh, I'd be a vacuum cleaner.  I swallow, too.

ewww

yumm