Thanks JennX I really hope that happens to me especially the shoe size I have a CIS friend who wears size 11 and she has a whole closet full of very pretty shoes. The height would be great too at 6'1 I would fit in great.

Quote from: StellaB on May 24, 2013, 08:35:02 AM
I'm okay with being me.. but...

...it's got to be said...

Handbags (purses in the States?)

What is it with handbags?

Why is it that whatever handbag I use has some secret system of organization which appears to read my mind and hide the one thing I'm looking for?

It doesn't matter whether it's my keys, tissues, my purse, or mobile phone. Either I have to ferret around looking for it or have to take everything out one by one to find it.

It always seems to hide my mobile phone when it's ringing and then let me find it the moment I have 'Missed Call' on the screen.

It is that way with everything. Ever look around the house for a Phillips Screwdriver and you keep finding flatheads? Then once you find one they keep popping up everywhere?

I'm like a few others, I'm not on HRT and haven't transitioned so I don't have anything to hate about being a girl.

I do hate NOT being a girl. I think what I would hate though would be not having a natural-born vagina that's fully functional. Not being able to have a period every month, ovulate and have babies. That's something I've always wished I could do and experience. Also, not being about 38-42D or DD like my ex-wife is. Being able to naturally breastfeed my babies, that would have been a nice thing to have been born able to do.

So yea, I hate just not being a natural born female and living all these years as a male. But I guess the having to get ready an hour ahead of time might would be annoying sometimes. Or trying to find clothes that I felt looked good on me because I'd be like most girls and THINK that I was fat when I would really just be sexy. Yea, being a guy sucks.

Quote from: StellaB on May 24, 2013, 08:35:02 AM
I'm okay with being me.. but...

...it's got to be said...

Handbags (purses in the States?)

What is it with handbags?

Why is it that whatever handbag I use has some secret system of organization which appears to read my mind and hide the one thing I'm looking for?

It doesn't matter whether it's my keys, tissues, my purse, or mobile phone. Either I have to ferret around looking for it or have to take everything out one by one to find it.

It always seems to hide my mobile phone when it's ringing and then let me find it the moment I have 'Missed Call' on the screen.

It's easy to keep things organized in a purse if you have a couple different small bags for the most important things. For example, you could have a black bag for your makeup, a white case for your phone, and a red drawstring bag for your keys + loose change.

Quote from: KaylaW on May 24, 2013, 08:40:10 AM
I'm like a few others, I'm not on HRT and haven't transitioned so I don't have anything to hate about being a girl.

I do hate NOT being a girl. I think what I would hate though would be not having a natural-born vagina that's fully functional. Not being able to have a period every month, ovulate and have babies. That's something I've always wished I could do and experience. Also, not being about 38-42D or DD like my ex-wife is. Being able to naturally breastfeed my babies, that would have been a nice thing to have been born able to do.

So yea, I hate just not being a natural born female and living all these years as a male. But I guess the having to get ready an hour ahead of time might would be annoying sometimes. Or trying to find clothes that I felt looked good on me because I'd be like most girls and THINK that I was fat when I would really just be sexy. Yea, being a guy sucks.

I agree with you 100% Kayla I want my own babies and not have to have my (EWW) sperm put into someones eggs and they go through child birth  I want the experience of having a baby growing inside me I wanted to go through the "Right of Passage" to becoming a woman. I wish I would have known as much as I do now about transgender and Hormones when I was 8 and I could have explained it to my parents and gotten SRS before Puberty. So I would have grown as a woman not as a man. I wish I would have spoke up when I was a child wondering off into the girls clothing department when my mom took me "Back to School Shopping" and said "This dress is what I want to wear"

No necessarily a bad thing but how is that wearing much less (a bikini) to the beach takes longer to get ready and that extra bag of stuff??

Quote from: StellaB on May 24, 2013, 08:35:02 AM

What is it with handbags?

Funny how some people's hate is other people's like. I love having a purse, putting everything I need into one bag so there is only one thing to grab when it's time to go.

Quote from: suzifrommd on May 24, 2013, 10:15:38 AM
Funny how some people's hate is other people's like. I love having a purse, putting everything I need into one bag so there is only one thing to grab when it's time to go.

Or only one thing to grab when someone wants your stuff...

Purses are pretty convenient for long days where you need to carry lots of things, but pockets are more convenient for smaller loads. IMO.

I normally carry a purse, but if I'm walking on the beach, woods, the purse goes in the trunk and my phone/keys/id go in my phone bag

I think purse is a general term, while handbag is more specific. In my mind at least, purse includes anything that had the function of a purse: handbag, shoulder bag, tote bag, messenger bag, etc. while handbag is more limited to bags that are held in the hand.

Anyway, I love purses, because you can just carryit and know you have everything you might ever need in it. Pockets, you have to decide on a day-to-day basis what you're gonna need in your day, and I dunno about you, but for me that's a guarantee I'll forget something important. Besides it's just such an awesome upgrade on what you can carry. However would you carry tissues, moisturizer, an umbrella, lip balm, a wallet, spare hair stuff, a snack and such without one? Seriously, I'd never go out without my purse again, except maybe if I go out strictly for a walk. I feel naked without it.

Not to mention purses are an absolute protection against forgetting things in your pockets and washing them, causing annoyance at best; a disaster laundry load at worst.

I carry a bag like this:



It's a little big and a duffel but I think it serves the puprose of being cute and convenient. These woman the other day was all "OMG I love your pocketbook girl." I love when women compliment my style and call me a girl, obviously.

Pardon the interruption. We have moved the concealed weapon discussion to a Guns/shooting thread in the Hobbies section. You may discuss your artillery to your heart's content here:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,125818.msg1146299.html#msg1146299

Thank you, hugs, Devlyn

I run around with a Wheaton College tote. Works well enough, and confuses the heck out of anyone who knows that college's religious focus.

And just like that, 'things I HATE' is 'things I LOVE' instead.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on May 24, 2013, 12:39:04 PM
Pardon the interruption. We have moved the concealed weapon discussion to a Guns/shooting thread in the Hobbies section. You may discuss your artillery to your heart's content here:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,125818.msg1146299.html#msg1146299

Thank you, hugs, Devlyn

I love the irony that people were talking about hiding something under your skirt that is long and hard without anybody finding out so you don't cause a commotion lol it's too rich!

Quote from: Joanna Dark on May 24, 2013, 01:29:01 PM
I love the irony that people were talking about hiding something under your skirt that is long and hard without anybody finding out so you don't cause a commotion lol it's too rich!

I'm so jealous I didn't think of that!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on May 24, 2013, 01:32:22 PM
I'm so jealous I didn't think of that!

So, is that an Uzi in your pocket, or...? XD

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on May 24, 2013, 12:39:04 PM
Pardon the interruption. We have moved the concealed weapon discussion to a Guns/shooting thread in the Hobbies section. You may discuss your artillery to your heart's content here:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,125818.msg1146299.html#msg1146299

Thank you, hugs, Devlyn

Snickers.........  R, F, DPICM in effect, 5 rounds, out....       ..still nothing I hate about being a girl...

Quote from: JennX on May 22, 2013, 04:05:22 PM
5. Money. It costs a whole lot more to be a girl. Clothes, make-up, hair stuff, underwear, et al are all stuff you have to spend a lot more money on.

I wonder if you could ask for a cost-of-living raise when you go full time to balance this out...?

Lol, I doubt it. People generally disregard the silly difference in prices and say it doesn't exist or is attributable solely to buying more things (bra, make-up, etc.) At least it's not like that for everything. Underwear for example. In male underwear, the only thing I ever found decent was Snob, because it didn't have a silly front pocket for genitals that made them ridiculously jiggle around, loose legs that let genitals slide into them or a large bare elastic that cut through my skin. Those are pretty expensive, at over 20 $ a pair of boxers. In comparison when quickly taking a look there didn't seem to be anything wrong with girls' panties and boyshorts at less than 10 $ each.

Quote from: A on May 24, 2013, 03:23:35 PM
Lol, I doubt it. People generally disregard the silly difference in prices and say it doesn't exist or is attributable solely to buying more things (bra, make-up, etc.) At least it's not like that for everything. Underwear for example. In male underwear, the only thing I ever found decent was Snob, because it didn't have a silly front pocket for genitals that made them ridiculously jiggle around, loose legs that let genitals slide into them or a large bare elastic that cut through my skin. Those are pretty expensive, at over 20 $ a pair of boxers. In comparison when quickly taking a look there didn't seem to be anything wrong with girls' panties and boyshorts at less than 10 $ each.

But if you want anything lacy... $_$