I'm glad I'm a boy
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I'm glad I'm a girl
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I wish I was the other. They seem to have a lot more fun.
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In conversation, (especially eavesdropping on other peoples'), I often feel glad I was born a boy. It's a lot less hassle and, as someone who should probably remain nameless said, "never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die".Now I love women, they're fascinating, noble creatures. But I'm sure glad I'm not one. Quite apart from all the biological fuss, there's the bewildering array of clothes they can wear (much easier if you're a guy), the still-shocking chauvinism they encounter in so many walks of life, and the endless barrage of cultural messages about the unworthiness of their appearance which they seem to have to endure.
So, a list: I (am/am not) glad I'm a (boy/girl) (because/despite of):
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I'm not a very blokey bloke. In fact, I am a bit of a ponce, really but I would hate to be a girl, though they do get better shoes. Though I am sure that shoes, no matter how fabulous, could offset menstruation, childbirth and being unable to read a map.
I'm quite happy to be a girl in most things, although occaisionally I have wished that I was a boy - especially when I comes to judo, coz there aren't many girls my age who do judo.
I mean, I'm happy that I don't have to do grunt work like my brother does - we work at the same shop - and if I'd been a boy, my friends when I was little and now would've been drastically different. I probably wouldn't have gotten into music, literature, etc, and I wouldn't have a very good sense of humour. Plus, I would not know my little sister as well as I do now.
Also, the boys in my family aren't that great looking and are a bit weird. Whilst I'm a bit nerdy, they're just strange.
Why is it that people instantly assume that 'women' as a group like shoes, shopping, and can't read maps? I hate shopping, shoes and I can read a map relatively well.
I'm happy I'm me.
I could have been born a boy and I believe I'd feel the same way.
Meh.
I want to know about the conversation you eavesdropped into. give it ....
Oh, it was about clothes. For weddings. Hats, mainly. When they started talking about fascinaters, I got completely lost, but then I realized, "hey, I don't need to know this stuff. Thank fcuk for that."
I'm glad I'm a woman, but I am envious that guys don't usually have to carry a purse.
Oh and this isn't related to the topic, Matt, but I love your headshot there.
Thank you! I'm still wondering what your is ;)
I think I'll just keep you guessing at that..Hehe. No, I found it on Google, it's an illustration of a girl dressed for autumn.
I'm gald I'm a boy despite the fact that women have two easily accessible G-Spots.
I'm glad I'm not expected to be interested in clothes, shopping, or social relationships. I'm not thrilled that I am expected to care about sports, cars, and sports cars. Not that women have to care about the first or men about the second, but it's a standard assumption.
What Catriona said.
I've often wondered what I'd have done on such and such occasions had I been a girl. But I never tried to think whether I'd have been happy being a girl.
I thought our baby would be a girl and that thought never frustrated me. Ani and I selected girls' names from which to make the final selection for our would be daughter. But we got a son who's one and a half years old now.
I love being a woman for countless reasons.... I detest preconceived notions such as the shopping, shoes, etc. I am quite skilled at a number of things typically associated with men. It makes me happy that I own tools and fix things. I know a lot of it came as necessity due to me living without a mate for so many years while raising two daughters (now grown and on their own). Some of it came out of curiosity and some just because I wanted to see if I was capable.
I used to get so irritated at university by the fact that all the engineering examples were about cars. All it did was put me off. Maybe that's why I now have a Pavlovian revulsion for fluid dynamics.
I don't think I'd have been unhappy as a girl. It's just that occasionally I'll hear them having a conversation (the exorbitant cost of a woman's haircut might be one example; another would be when one of my female friends told me shocking stories of the childish chauvinism she'd encountered while working on a hospital project): And I'll just think, "my goodness, I'm glad I don't have that problem".
I love everything about being a woman except for the menstruation and child-birth part. I love the superficial stuff about being a girl, like fussing with my hair, make-up, clothes, accessories, etc. and I love the effect women have on men, and I don't mean that in a feminist way, if you catch my drift *wink wink*.
Also, I've never been a victim of chauvinism, so that has never made me bitter about being a woman. I think my stature and the way I carry myself don't make it easy for anyone to treat me any less for being a woman.
But like others here have said, if I were a member of the opposite sex, I'd be just as happy with the way I was.
When I was little, I wished I was a boy. They seemed to have so much more freedom. I was told that if I could kiss my elbow, I'd turn into a boy. I tried, and tried, and never could.
Heh, so now I know that I wasn't the only to be told that.
Sometimes people have a more positive reaction to something that a boy does than if a girl did the same thing. I mean, I used to get in trouble a lot with teachers, parents, etc, if I did something that all the other boys did. And despite how I got into trouble, the boys wouldn't get into trouble. That used to really piss me off. It was like the fact that being of a certain gender entitles you to behaving irrationally, while the other gender is told off for doing the same thing.
But then again, that's probably just me, although those were the times that I wished I was a boy.
Boys are encouraged to be pirates, girls are encouraged to be princesses - that's a pretty universal stereotype.
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