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Why can't you *feel* like a woman?

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polkadotwellies · 05/05/2018 03:07

I might be wrong but after reading some of the threads it seems some woman can't feel like a woman: Womanhood is merely biological.

I am biologically a woman and feel like a woman. I just wonder why that's such a contested concept?

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KeefBurtain · 05/05/2018 03:35

I’m not a fan of pink and sparkly things, never had my nails done and hate shopping, never considered myself particularly ‘girlie’

But last week as I lay there with my feet in stirrups, speculum in my vagina, whilst the gynaecologist removed retained products of conception from my cervix with a forceps, I had never felt more like a woman in my life.

BettyFloop · 05/05/2018 03:30

I'm really interested in this @polkadotwellies

Can you explain what it feels like to be an adult human female please?

OkPedro · 05/05/2018 03:20

How exactly do you feel like a woman?
I just feel like me, it so happens I am a woman
Do you mean you like pink and sparkly things and love cooking and cleaning?

ALittleBitofVitriol · 05/05/2018 03:17

polkadotwellies

What are you describing when you say you feel like a woman, precisely? What is this feeling, where does it come from, how do you experience it?
And is this feeling more fundamental to womanhood than our biology or socialisation?

OnTheList · 05/05/2018 03:12

Woman is not a 'feeling' its a state of being.

Of course some people may genuinely believe they 'feel like women'. But..how can you know what something feels like if you are not that thing, if that makes sense? I cannot possibly know what it feels like to be my husband/brother/sister/etc. I can only know what it feels like to be me.

Its an odd question to think about really. It sets me off down some weird thinking and I end up thinking things like 'how am I thinking this, how does my brain know I am thinking' and so on and end up with a huge headache and in a bit of a trance sometimes Grin

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