three typically male traits you will never give up.

[KarenLyn]

Bethany  & Keri,

Both your selections 1 & 3
don't seem exclusively male to me
Your selections for # 2 I agree
They're typical male traits you see.


LOL
I couldn't help it. HELP! Stop me from watching the Grinch again!

Karen Lyn

[shaniam]

Oh fun! OK, here are a few of mine...

(1) My love of martial arts and the confidence I have knowing how to defend myself.
(2) Hanging out in comic shops. (All the guys stare at you. Girls NEVER go in there!) *laughs*
(3) Being a father. I never liked my male name, but my ears will never tire of hearing the word "Daddy".

-Shan

[cindybc]

Hi Shanian, excuse me for buttin in but I feel that hanging on to your interest in martial arts is a good one. Actually if you go to  TS support group they will recommend that you take some type of self defence course.

Crap happens, I had one bad encounter one night just crossing the street where I was attacked by a drunk, that encounter could have easily cost me my life if it weren't for the fact he was to drunk to be very dangerous, a couple of black eyes was all I got..

I also have a friend who is a counselor at a TS support group who came very near to having her face rearranged one night coming out of a highway underpass. She is truly a good looking girl and passes 100%. But that didn't matter to that big lummox she ran into that night.

Remember after a couple of years on HRT you ain't gonna have the same muscle mass as you had before. I wish I could take self defense but with the arthritis I have in some of my joints, it pretty well prohibits that from happening. But then I have my beloved, and she's a big, girl, she's my self defence. Just hide behind her and stick my tongue out at the would be offender. "hee, hee, hee." Seriously though, I really recommend self defence. 

Comic books, well I am 62 years old and still love comic books animes, cartoons,  and cartoon animations, and love drawing them to and make up little stories for kids about cartoon characters..

Cindy 

[shaniam]

"Actually if you go to  TS support group they will recommend that you take some type of self defence course."

Hiya, Cindy! Actually, I think you and I have had that conversation!   

-Shan

[cindybc]

Yea I suppose I mentioned it a couple times before but I thought the self defense one or martial arts was a good idea. Anyway back to the topic about male traits, looking back on any of the stuff I use to do could have been just as much done or performed  by either sex.

I could tell a few stories about this girl who was not just a friend but was my best buddy and the stuff we did, no other respectable girl would have of even thought of doing or would have gasped in disbelief, and this was in the sixties. I also had a tom boy for a sister, a speed boat freek. Aaaah well I just talk to much anyway,

Cindy

[Wendy C]

 Other than caring for my Family I'm not sure there isn't anything that I won't modify or give up. I was sick to death of my life as it was. The real me is just starting out and I dont know who exactly who she will be or what she can use from his life.

Wendy

[shaniam]

"Yea I suppose I mentioned it a couple times before but I thought the self defense one or martial arts was a good idea."

LOL

I didn't say it was a conversation we had online... *hint*

[cindybc]

Hmmm well ya gots me. I talk to a lot of people on and off line. Hmmm nice looking beau.
Vancouver huh, well now, how many people do I know there? Cindy chews on finger nail of right index finger. Takes finger out of mouth and shakes it at the monitor and says, "OK!" I ran out of fingers now taking my socks off. Ten toes later, OK, I give up. Cindy gets on knees clasping her hands before her and says, please tell me, tell me where do you hale from fair lady? 

Cindy

[Annwyn]

"Actually if you go to  TS support group they will recommend that you take some type of self defence course."

Hiya, Cindy! Actually, I think you and I have had that conversation!   

-Shan

Pepper spray and/or a handgun is just as effective if not more effective than any kind of kung fu.

I've been in martial arts my entire life, full front and side splits, able to take down a guy a foot taller than me and over 100 pounds heavier.  Fact is though that even when I went from 100 pounds to 150 pounds of muscle, was squatting triple my bodyweight and could pick 300 pounds off the floor and push it overhead, running 5 miles a day, I couldn't take out a guy who's had even minimal combat or martial arts experience.  Leverage and weight and testosterone are very powerful enemies, and I've learned my lesson brutally over and over again.

After you've been raped and assaulted enough times, it gets hammered into your head that if you're 5'2, you can't take someone who's 200+ pounds and 6 foot or taller, period.  And, you shouldn't even try.  I went to court one time for pulling a shotgun on a guy who had assaulted me, stalked me, and showed up at my house for charges of threatening with a firearm.
The judge looked at me, and then at that tall brute of a marine, and dropped my charges.
If I'd tried fighting using the MMA I've practiced all my life, I would have aonther scar on my heart and possibly a few broken bones, who knows what could have happened to me.

[lady amarant]

Pepper spray and/or a handgun is just as effective if not more effective than any kind of kung fu.

Ah, but if you have pepper-spray AND some kung fu ... 

~Simone.

[cindybc]

I don't like guns, I have my partner and if she wishes to get a fire arm for when we are traveling I will not say no. Otherwise i would rather avoid violence and aggression of any kind if at all possible.

Cindy

[Alyssa M.]

A good self-defense course shouldn't be on how to beat up a huge guy -- it should be on how to avoid the situation in the first place, or get out of it as fast and safely as possible. It might even include use of handguns.

"Actually if you go to  TS support group they will recommend that you take some type of self defence course."

Hiya, Cindy! Actually, I think you and I have had that conversation!   

-Shan

Pepper spray and/or a handgun is just as effective if not more effective than any kind of kung fu.

I've been in martial arts my entire life, full front and side splits, able to take down a guy a foot taller than me and over 100 pounds heavier.  Fact is though that even when I went from 100 pounds to 150 pounds of muscle, was squatting triple my bodyweight and could pick 300 pounds off the floor and push it overhead, running 5 miles a day, I couldn't take out a guy who's had even minimal combat or martial arts experience.  Leverage and weight and testosterone are very powerful enemies, and I've learned my lesson brutally over and over again.

After you've been raped and assaulted enough times, it gets hammered into your head that if you're 5'2, you can't take someone who's 200+ pounds and 6 foot or taller, period.  And, you shouldn't even try.  I went to court one time for pulling a shotgun on a guy who had assaulted me, stalked me, and showed up at my house for charges of threatening with a firearm.
The judge looked at me, and then at that tall brute of a marine, and dropped my charges.
If I'd tried fighting using the MMA I've practiced all my life, I would have aonther scar on my heart and possibly a few broken bones, who knows what could have happened to me.

[Vexing]

1. Yelling (violent) profanities while killing enemies in FPS games on the PC or PS3
2. Drinking larger quantities of beer
3. Enjoying anything featuring giant robots

[cindybc]

Drinking beer
farting
belching
swearing
and arguing who has the best car and the biggest hard on.
Talking dirty about their wives.

Yuck, makes a girl appreciate she doesn't need to associate with the  type anymore.

Cindy

[Janet_Girl]

Amen......er Awoman, sister.

Janet

[Robin C.]

There's not much left that men do exclusively other than pee while standing up [oh, wait - I think I saw something on Ebay . . . ] - I don't do much anything that a typical male does . . . Oh, I'm building a cabin. Does that count? Probably not.

[fwagodess]

Ava's Traits she'll never give up.

• Being a father, even though I am the human pet father (since July 1990) of 7, pet grandfather (since November 1999) of 5, and pet great-grandfather (since January 2009) of 1.
• Have a relationship with biological women.
• Doing home improvements and handyman work

Sorry, that's all I've known and done for over 20 years.

[cindybc]

I wish I could build a cabin out in the mountains and have lots of critter friends come and visit. But still be with my friends in town as well.

Cindy

[iminadaze]

I wish I could build a cabin out in the mountains.....

Cindy

That does sound so tranquil, I could see myself there.

Too bad I have to save to 'chop the only tree in my yard'
and get some 'facial landscaping done'....

  Nicole

[placeholdername]

1. Yelling (violent) profanities while killing enemies in FPS games on the PC or PS3
2. Drinking larger quantities of beer
3. Enjoying anything featuring giant robots

I'll take #1 and #3.  #2 is a no go - beer is nasty.  I'm a total girl as far as my drink selection goes, which can be embarassing when I go out (which is rare).