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Why do you enjoy being a woman?

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OrderOnline · 27/02/2018 19:36

I am happy I was born female. I just am.Smile

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Halebeke425 · 27/02/2018 20:36

Was going to respond with "I don't" but actually yes multiple orgasms I'd definitely the high point for me. And I suppose making and sustaining a person with my own body was pretty cool.

OlennasWimple · 27/02/2018 20:36

Shoes and clothes are far nicer and more varied for women

Being pregnant wasn't brilliant but I did quite enjoy giving birth Blush and I still can't get my head around the fact that I grew a whole person inside me and then pushed it out, then bf it until big enough to eat proper food. That's bloody amazing

(Note - I'm not reducing femaleness to motherhood, and I know what it is like to struggle to carry as well)

SprogletsMum · 27/02/2018 20:34

My favourite thing about being a woman is that I grew my children in my body and gave birth to them. I was able to be their sole source of nourishment for a while. I enjoy being a sahm so for me, the expectation that women do the majority of child rearing has worked in my favour.

Patodp · 27/02/2018 20:32

Multiple orgasms.

TallulahWaitingInTheRain · 27/02/2018 20:31

Female friendships Smile

SnibbleAgain · 27/02/2018 20:29

Hmm

i don't really feel super-allied to it tbh, I've always felt like a "person" which is why I find the trans stuff a bit baffling

My thoughts are probably fairly trivial and have their pros and cons. I'm small so easy to get through crowds / front of bar. Equally, get pushed around / squashed in crowds and that sort of thing.

Um.

I'm honestly not sure. It's good to have a wide choice of clothes and things I suppose although I've always preferred men's clothes shops - they're calmer and have more space and a few nice things usually in all the sizes. I like the colours they "get". Women's clothes shops are like a massive explosion of stuff and I often look in the door and think fuck it.

I am heterosexual and so it's been much easier to get a partner than if I was a bloke who fancied men, due to numbers. OTOH the behaviour of men towards me from age 12 up has often been unpleasant / hateful and made me very angry.

It was pretty cool actually making human beings with my body and I feel a bit amazed when I look at them sometimes, but I had pretty bad PND and anxiety related that went on for a long time and TBH my mental health is still not where it was pre kids.

It's a lot of ambivalence, I suppose? I never really wonder what it's like being a man, but if I was one then I'd just be me in a different body with a different set of experiences and challenges to feel ambivalent about I expect.

I'm not able to come up with much TBH but I'm quite happy being me IYSWIM and me happens to be female so that's fine.