Some folks just get awkward and embarrassed when they feel that they've made a "mistake" about gendering someone. They turn it back on you, as if you were intentionally trying to trick them.
Quote from: Michael James on March 10, 2011, 05:49:42 PM
I really dont think she was hitting on me. Shes like a 60 year old woman who was in there with her granchild and she seriously just really liked my pizza cuz i made it exactly how she asked. But who knows, maybe.
There may not have been an overt sexual element there, but there was obviously a gender element and possibly an implied sexual undertone.
It's tough being a middle-aged woman in this society. I'm finding that women who are, say, 50 plus have a whole different relationship with me, compared to pre-transition. I'm not good-looking, but I'm a "young man" who is kind and friendly to women who, I suspect, often don't get a heck of a lot of male respect or attention. The other day, for example, I encountered a painfully slow librarian who must have been about fifteen minutes from retirement. I suspect that a lot of her library patrons are...excuse the pun...patronizing and impatient. I wasn't. I smiled at her and waited without chafing at the bit. When she came back with the DVD I needed, I thanked her with feeling and then flashed her a big grin. She lit up like a Christmas tree. It was amazing. Stuff like this has been happening to me more and more since I started my transition.
In your case, you were a good-looking young man who gave her the perfect pizza, and you were probably super-nice to boot. That means a lot to some people, and women of any age can take that as flattering. But maybe especially a gal of sixty.
