This is just something that I've been thinking about because, except for the fatness (ugh...my fat ass needs to get on a treadmill), my body doesn't bother me too much, but it seems like a lot of people do not like their bodies...hmmm.

I was thinking that one reason I don't feel the need to bind (i'm female bodied), is that my grandmother, who is the epitome of 'woman' for me, had a double mastectomy before I was born, so for me, the person I knew as the ideal woman never had breasts.  (*ehem* and mine are kind of small anyway...)

I was just wondering what everyone else thought about this.  I'm on a mission to have a complete understanding of what it is to be androgyne, not just what it is for ME to be androgyne. 

Good mission.

There seems to be a bit of a split in the androgynes between body-modification types and not.
Now I'm not really bothered about changing my body, but I don't consider my body gendered. Not even my penis really, it's just mine, and I am not gendered.

Most of my (female) body doesn't bother me. My breasts kind of do, but not as much as they used to. They are only small anyway, I don't like them but I can tolerate them.
However, at a cetain *ahem* time of the month I am very aware of how much I hate having a uterus. If removing it wasn't such a major operation I would definitely get rid of that part.

QuoteDoes your body bother you?

i'm not body dysmorphic anymore but before grs, i used to be.

I am also female bodied. I don't like my breasts at all but I also don't really feel a need to bind either. Like Steve, I guess I just tolerate them. They are pretty small and until I can have them removed I don't feel like I need to strap them down. Yes, and of course that time of the month makes me want to rip my insides out. 

I'm female bodied. I don't mind my breasts. They're not big and I don't bind them or plan on getting rid of them. What I do not like is my body composition. I wish I just had more muscle and less fat on my body. Also, getting rid of my squishy belly would make me happy. The softness of my body just gives me a too feminine look that I don't like. Luckily, I found an exercise buddy back at school, so I'll be working on that. 

ah, yes...that time of the month...well, i can tolerate it.  actually, I very much want to have kids so I've learned to appreciate the ol' uterus...well, as much as one can when cramping and and wanting to rip people's heads off.    

i'd personally like to get rid of the squishy all over...*sigh*  working out sucks. 

Yes, it does bother me, but not enough that I'd do anything too drastic.

I'm pretty much convinced that I'd be more comfortable in a female body, and I regularly have phantom feelings in places no male is supposed to have. In this sense, the descriptions of some transsexuals sound very familiar.

On the other hand, I don't have an overwhelming urge, or even serious desire, to go the HRT / SRS route. Also, I like being able to have a heterosexual relationship with my wife, and having my body match my brain is less important than having my body match hers.

The last part, of course, is something many transsexuals cannot understand at all, which is why I'm here.

  Nfr

Hi Jaimey!
"My" body bothers me tremendously like I can't even explain... I bind all the time with painful objects and I am actually sick of it...I just want to get rid of everything that is female. No matter how much I worked out I wasn't able to achieve decent looking muscles...Damn!

as MTF who is overweight and hardly feminine looking...YES, MY BODY DISGUSTS ME. I have just gotten a gym membership, now if I can just stop being all depressed half the time about my body & get motivated i might actually get to the gym!!!

well...hey i've already lost over 200lbs on my own so...

thanx for read'n

Well...my body is just my body, that's how i see it, i don't really have the biggest problems about it, and i think it's funny to hear women complain about how small their breast are, and how they want a breast enlargement, and i'm just looking at my small tennis balls, and is satisfied.

Is it just me or did all the female bodied, who replied, have small breast, is there a tendency between androgyne women? XD

Quote from: funnygrl on December 30, 2007, 07:35:27 PM
as MTF who is overweight and hardly feminine looking...YES, MY BODY DISGUSTS ME. I have just gotten a gym membership, now if I can just stop being all depressed half the time about my body & get motivated i might actually get to the gym!!!

well...hey i've already lost over 200lbs on my own so...

thanx for read'n

Congrats on losing that weight. That's not easy to do.

Quote from: ImKim on December 30, 2007, 07:54:49 PM
Is it just me or did all the female bodied, who replied, have small breast, is there a tendency between androgyne women? XD

Yeah, I noticed that too, lol.

Hmm.... well, I posted that fat video earlier so you know I have issues with THAT. When I look in the mirror, my belly just sags there. If you just saw that, you'd think I was pregnant. I guess... My thighs have celluite in them, but not much. My arms are a bit scrawny, especially the left one near the elbow... My shoulders are big. I have a thick bullish neck, and my face? Tolerable. The one good thing about my big belly is that obscures my view of... well... down there. I've got moobs (man-boobs). The one thing I especially cannot tolerate is the hair but thankfully very little of it grows on my chest or stomach. And my back isn't hairy either. But it grows on my toes.

Quote from: ImKim on December 30, 2007, 07:54:49 PM
Is it just me or did all the female bodied, who replied, have small breast, is there a tendency between androgyne women? XD

hmmm...possibly a biological effect?

Quote from: funnygrl on December 30, 2007, 07:35:27 PM
well...hey i've already lost over 200lbs on my own so...

WAY TO GO!!!

I've decided that I will NOT make a resolution to lose weight...instead, I'm just going to buy a bicycle.  I'm moving to an area of town where using a bike for transportation is actually realistic...I just have to buy one first...XD

Yes.  My body bothers me.  In fact, I've had to take a restraining order out on it.  Now my body can't come within 50 yards of me.  Someday, we may reconcile, but I believe it has a lot of growing up to do.

For serious, this captures me except for the crossed out part because I don't care about sex anymore.  I think I just did it because I was supposed to. -

Quote from: Seshatneferw on December 30, 2007, 05:07:44 PM
Yes, it does bother me, but not enough that I'd do anything too drastic.

I'm pretty much convinced that I'd be more comfortable in a female body, and I regularly have phantom feelings in places no male is supposed to have. In this sense, the descriptions of some transsexuals sound very familiar.

On the other hand, I don't have an overwhelming urge, or even serious desire, to go the HRT / SRS route. Also, I like being able to have a heterosexual relationship with my wife, and having my body match my brain is less important than having my body match hers.

The last part, of course, is something many transsexuals cannot understand at all, which is why I'm here.

  Nfr

Pica comes close to describing me for me too, except that I am too tall and am entirely bald.  Those things prevent me from being happy with my body.  Yet another reason to keep it 50 yards away from me.


Rebis

Yes, my male body bothers me sometimes, there have been times where the dysphoria has been intense. I think I'd be happier having a female body, however it seems like a lot of hassle being tethered to medical procedures for the rest of my life to be neither gender as I am now. So I just deal with the body I have. Losing my hair up on top bothers me too.

y2g

Shhh.  Don't say anything.   I think my body is following me.

Someone call a cop.

will it come quietly?

I believe so.  The mouth is noiseless without the brain.  It's slippery work taking it away, though, because of all the drool.

Quote from: Rebis on January 01, 2008, 11:03:42 PM
  The mouth is noiseless without the brain. 

It is clear you have never been to the aftermath of a game of football.