Why do you enjoy being a woman?

I don't. I just am one. I like being musical though... I hate being pregnant, like breastfeeding, hate periods... like make up and a variety of interesting clothes to wear...

Just having grown a human was amazing.
I don't enjoy being a woman. Id love to be a guy, it's all geared up in their favour. It would be interesting to have a penis and use it during sex.

The bewilderness, sorry not sure how to tag. I don't think you are alone. I've not had a delightful experience as you put it. Far from it. But I do think there's a certain pressure on mums to exclaim how delightful they find motherhood/children. And it seems apposite to me. I love my child. But she's hard work. And my life is more curtailed now. Its not been a calling for me I fear. And reading between the lines from other mums I know, I suspect they feel the same.

It's all I know how to be. I really don't understand when men say they identify as a woman as it's a feeling I can't quantify, I just am one. You can identify with the look of a woman and the clothes etc. but not the feeling IMO.

I'm an engineer in a male dominated industry. I do ok but life is easier for men.

Having children was a miserable experience for me and something I wish I had never done.
I am so happy to read all these women who really liked everything about it. I am glad to be a one off. I find it reassuring.

No, I said that the post ticked nearly every MRA talking point so it did seem like a man posting.
Accuracy is important.

I thought my dd was going to be a boy as a friend was so sure.

When she was a girl, I was delighted. I had wanted a girl. Now I have a girl and a boy and I love them both equally.

Thrilled and relieved he is a boy. I have 3 boys. I was so worried about having a princess barbie loving girl. I would have struggled with that.

I've made a lot of life choices that I wouldn't have made if I wasn't a woman. Because of societyies expectations of women i suppose.

Lots of good points, here, but... Those of you who have children, what was your first thought on finding out the sex of your first child? I had, in advance, been quite nervous about the possibility of having a boy, since being a boy was further from my experience. Still, when I found out DC1 was a boy, my very first rush of feeling was relief that my child was going to have the easier path in life, not the harder. To me that says it all.

I think I would prefer to be a man.

You are entitled to your opinion. Getting close? That is a bizarre accusation to make. She almost said something? But didn't
The comment ticked almost every MRA talking point. Not close. Spot on

Bewilderness you accused runawaywithme being a man. I didn't see anything in her post to justify you saying that. I agreed with bits of it. May be I'm a man too.

more outfit options & giving birth!

'dad gets much admiration for babysitting or looking after her whilst I'm away. I do it...no comment. 😂 I hear you!

I find the question a little odd. But I understand why.

I don't like being a woman. Like it less since being pregnant and becoming a mum. There's the physical health side (that I have suffered) and then the social expectation side. Partner (child's dad) gets much admiration for babysitting??? Or looking after her whilst I'm away. I do it...no comment. Nothing unusual.

It's almost worse than the physical toll to be honest. The older I get, the less happy I am at being "treated as a woman". God only knows why some people covet this.

*The post above sounds like it was written by a man pretending to be a woman

This sort of comment is tiresome. It is getting very close to saying there is a correct way of being a woman and it is your way.*

You are entitled to your opinion. Getting close? That is a bizarre accusation to make. She almost said something? But didn't.
The comment ticked almost every MRA talking point. Not close. Spot on.

Definitely female friendships. I also like being part of a group of people who to me, are incredible survivors. Women just keep going, no matter what men and life throws at them. If I were a man, I can't think I would feel much affinity with other men, seeing how they behave.

And yes, growing and having children - after each one of my children was born I was in total awe of the incredible female body.

The post above sounds like it was written by a man pretending to be a woman

This sort of comment is tiresome. It is getting very close to saying there is a correct way of being a woman and it is your way.

For example there are many posts on here about the magic and mystery of motherhood (I'm paraphrasing before some one leaps into say no one said that) I am definitely female and definitely a mother and very little of those posts resonate with me.

I enjoyed being pregnant (presumably all hormones aligned correctly) but gestating young and giving birth is simply a natural function of all female mammals. Those of you think differently are not wrong for feeling that way but neither am I for thinking the way I do.

There was no need to pick apart the poster's comment.

I frequently say to myself I'm coming back in the next life as a man because it just looks so much easier.

I think this too. Either a man or a cat. I think the cat just about edges it for me.

I didn't really enjoy pregnancy and I thought I was dying during childbirth but I can't quite believe my body made two actual, living, breathing people from just an egg and a sperm. For some reason I just really struggle to get my head round it, even though it's biology 101.

Actually I'm gonna join @OlennasWimple - I did enjoy giving birth. Pregnancy and babyhood not so much, but the birth bit (especially for ds2) was great.

Carrying and having my four children. Everything else is just human.

I made 2 people.

Everything else is just 'stuff I like about being a human'.

My DH would have been pregnant but just to give me a break. I made him promise to have the next one

I don't know where woman begins and me ends.

Only postive thing I can think is motherhood - the role and closeness to children rather than pg, birth.

I didn't enjoy pg or birth - though I got lucky and got a break from heavy painful periods and more luck that when periods came back there weren't anywhere near as bad.

It’s a role that for me has come with huge constraints and downsides but overall is positive.

However DH has a great relationship with DC and gets to enjoy them but does seem to enjoy fewer downsides to parenthood – so perhaps fatherhood is equally good and easier – I don’t know.

I haven't had children but I love being a woman because I love nurturing and looking after - you get much closer to people when you're female.

Female friendship

Emotional intelligence in a greater measure

Being incredibly good at what I do at work and having great bosoms

Body that's all silky and soft and undulating, not hairy and knobbly

Being single and free and able to please myself, rather than a lonely bachelor who drinks too much

Fashion, scent and novels.