Good morning guys and dolls.

Are there any hobbies/activities/things stereotypical of your birth gender you love and refuse to give up?

I love dolls. I still have every doll from my childhood - Russian dolls, handmade dolls, baby dolls, Cabbage Patch, Strawberry Shortcake (huge collection), Barbie, My Little Pony, American Girl, and various other dolls. All very old and in a plethora of conditions ranging from 'never removed from box' to 'decapitated or otherwise dismembered'.
I have my stuffed animals too.

I like to draw or create beautiful things.

I like some girly computer games.

I admit it - I LOVE pretty things.

No nothing.  I destroyed all of it >

I like to wear men's clothes from time to time.

I like to build things in my shop.  By the way, this is something that I picked up after my transition... the shop that is.  I became interested in woodworking after I met some other women in the bay area that did woodworking.  So it ain't just for men anymore!

I drive a truck.  Again, this is something new.  I always drove a more "feminine" car.  But since I moved to the boonies, trucks make more sense out here with all the stuff I have to haul around.

I tend to have more masculine taste in furnishings for my home.

I'm a tech weenie.  I love new technology.

I'm really into astronomy.  There are few women in astronomy.

I love science, history, and botany.  I don't know where these things fall these days.  I don't think that they are gender specific.  I do believe that not too many people have interest in these areas of either gender.

Cindi

..nothing really that I can think of......I didn't like guy type persuits....so I didn't ever do any of them when I was younger.

I like more masculine type cars in dark colours (black or green) and probably always will.

I like the home furnished more in a masculine style as well (not dark or drab colours but just minimalistic) - no frilly things lol

I don't wear skirts or dresses, probably never will either. Tried them though, but its not me.  I wear women's jeans, shorts, trackies, tops, hoodies, tees etc.  I like the feminine sporty look.

I like racing and shooting games (if you can call them masculine)

Well, some of the stereotypical things from my birth -sex- ( ) that I still enjoy are:

Have a couple of cabbage patches, and stuffed animals..

I like SPARKLY.... anything sparkly... 

most of my friends wouldn't consider my tastes in music, video games, and my robotics hobby very girly... 

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a pilot.  I still have all the planes I received as gifts.  I love planes, I love flying, I'm just sorry I don't have wings...

tink

Besides working with the techie side of computers (programming, fixing, etc.. I work in IT), I guess the only thing considered to be a male pastime, rather than female, is 4WDing.  I love getting out in the Australian bush and driving in sand dunes at the beach, with my partner in our Suzy (Suzuki Jimny), she is black, and she has pink bits 

Oh, yeah, and I do general maintence to our Suzy, oil change, filters etc, although I can do much more difficult things, eg design and install suspension lifts, etc, now days I stay away from major work (I do not want to break a nail afterall), and just do the easy things, which saves me a lot of money.

My only other hobbie is weather photography, esp lightning, but I think that is more of a gender neutral pastime.

I was always the better cook in the house so I still enjoy cooking for my Soulmate and Lifepartner.

I also enjoy a good meal, possibly more than I should at times.

I was an electronics technician back when there were vacuum tubes in two-way radios and I never lost my interest in techie stuff.  I might take the test for a ham radio li8cense and work 2-meter FM on voice and learn Morse code so I can work on frequencies below 12 meters.

Other than that it has all gone into the past, tools and all.  I change the oil on the Jeep by driving it into Jiffy Lube.  I clean the inside and wax the outside by calling the detail shop.

Wing Walker
Charting a New Course

Hehe this is going off the deep end probably for sterotypical. . . BUT!

I used to race motorcycles haha.  I still have it, but am going to sell it in the spring for money to finance my future!



vroom vroom?

Drawing cartoons is something that I usually thought of as a male hobby (although there are some female cartoonists, like Cathy Guisewite and Lynn Johnston, to name a couple).  I always loved cartoons and comic strips (I still have an attachment to a few of them, especially Peanuts), so I eventually started drawing my own. 

Hi all, well for #1 I use to have a boat like yours Kiera, I named it the PAMALA must of crewsed most of the Georgian Bay with it. If I could own one again? Yessss I would love to. As for the vehicle My soul mate and I drive is a  Jeep Cherokee, well she does most of the driving, don't like driving in a city I don't know my way around yet.

I use to love doing wood work and I did at one time have all the tools that one would want to do wood work with. To much moving about took care of most any tools I had. Same as for decorating up the apartment I would love to but I have kind of lost interest in doing so after all the moving to often. Well maybe I may get the urge again. In one place I lived at for nearly ten years I had it really decorated nice and plants everywhere,  it looked like a jungle in the living-room. I had the lacy curtains, oil paintings I had done myself and the whole 9 yards.

I do North American Native crafts as well.  I love collecting different fantasy stuff on the internet, I use to write children's fantasy stories. And my, can't forget colors, I love colors and have many colorful pictures in my hard drive that I have collected as well. Dolls, oh yes, I got a whole collection of them , as well as fairies.

Almost forgot back in my early twenties I use to fly pontoon bush planes  doing charter for tourist over waterways which were about the only landing facilities  there were to the many islands on the Georgian Bay.

Cindy   

I still got some barbie dolls my mom gave me.  I keep'em in a box

Erm,
I suppose a lot of the music I prefer tends to have male fans, Beefheart and Zappa and that.
I've always been quite keen on Star Wars and Bond.
When I was a child I played mainly with handpuppets, they used to play a lot in my sisters' toy kitchen and with her iron and stuff.
I had a pirate ship made from playmobil.
I play computer games but everybody beats me 'cos I can't control the character - i tend to go towards simple games for that reason.
There's nothing particularly stamped with gender I don't think, in either direction. Makes me sound so Beige.

Quote from: Tink on October 30, 2007, 08:58:16 PM
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a pilot.  I still have all the planes I received as gifts.  I love planes, I love flying, I'm just sorry I don't have wings...

tink

I too was always fascinated with flying..... and then one day I donned a set of wings and learned to fly.  I did it.  I flew with a hawk.  It was magic Tink.  I did it as ME, long after my transition.  I had finally broken all of life's bonds and realized all of my childhood desires. It was an amazing thing.  That is when my life finally began.

Cindi

I guess fishing was a favorite of mine and I still love to do it. Maybe its because i didnt have to be home getting the hell beat out of me.

My passion in life is playing music, always has been regardless of my gender. It goes way beyond being a hobby, it's as integral as eating. I think being able to immerse in music has literally saved my life during the hard times. Other than that I love to read. And also to write. These aren't really gendered activities.

zythyra

Quote from: ell on October 31, 2007, 08:56:06 AM
as a kid i loved climbing trees and i still take note of which trees would be good for climbing, when i'm out and about. i've got an almost Celtic reverence for gigantic, ancient, beautiful trees.

oh me too! I remember the time I got stuck in my favorite tree. I tried to climb to the very top, went too high, and panicked. My friends had to find the nearest adult to help get me down. It was soooo embarassing. It's funny now, though.

Yes as for music I like Oldies Goldie's and I also have a leaning towards "Rock!" There is a children's board I go to I called myself Rocking Granny.  Actually I like a  pretty wide range of music.

Cindy