Please or to access all these features

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

If I was to ‘live as a man’ from tomorrow, what would I do?

164 replies

TheOGCCL · 26/06/2022 18:52

I don’t pretend to be an expert in trans issues but I am fascinated by how society drives gendered behaviour.

I believe anyone wanting to change gender would normally ‘live’ as the opposite gender for a while, or even permanently. But what does that mean? What would I need to do to live as a man? I’m guessing use male facilities but anything else? Grow a beard? Plenty of men are clean shaven.

I don’t wear dresses or skirts or have long hair, so why do trans females sometimes think this is part of living as a woman?

OP posts:
Nomoresmoresthensnores · 26/06/2022 22:52

Warhammer 40,000 😂

...And lynx deodorant

Nomoresmoresthensnores · 26/06/2022 22:49

Metabigot · 26/06/2022 22:08

Interesting... so they weren't a man inside before then?
They became more manly after transitioning?

Blows the born in wrong body argument apart.

Yes and No
In lots of ways exactly the same person.
In other ways definitely seemed to be acting up male attributes.
They grew a goatee too (eventually).
I'm not criticising it, they were a fully grown adult many years past teen. But yes I personally felt there was a bit of performance 'man' going on. Tatoos were also a big part. It seems a lot less now it's 10 years down the road.
I have been told it's the testosterone meds that contribute to this. They surge. Sex drive increases too.

SoManyQuestionsHere · 26/06/2022 22:42

quiteathome · 26/06/2022 22:37

If a female colleague gets a promotion then ask the female colleague if they slept with the boss

I wish this were funny, except: this has, literally, happened to me.

Well, except: we're a matrix organisation, so the precise phrasing was "which of them?"

quiteathome · 26/06/2022 22:37

If a female colleague gets a promotion then ask the female colleague if they slept with the boss

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 26/06/2022 22:25

Sleep through the cries of a baby in the middle of the night.

Understand (and care about) cricket scores.

Go on holidays you have done nothing to organise.

oldageprancer · 26/06/2022 22:20

SnotsGotTheBoobies · 26/06/2022 20:14

If I were a man for 24 hours tomorrow, I’d probably spend that whole 24 hours masturbating! 🤚 🍆

Doubt it, surely after 2 wanks max you'd be exhausted, good for nothing, and fast asleep snoring loudly.

BorisJohnsonsvomitbucket · 26/06/2022 22:18

Explain to a woman how what she is doing wrong, explain the "right way", lack patience and take over said task because you are quicker/stronger at doing it. (Said with sarcasm)

Get into Warhammer 4000.

Try and speak to a woman in the street and ask for her number, then shout expletives at her when she turns you down.

Call your mates stupid names. Never ever call them by their real names.

Never go to the pub toilet at the same time as your mate.

Claim all the credit from a woman for her idea.

(God I sound like a bitter old b* tch)

mumda · 26/06/2022 22:11

Lovemusic33 · 26/06/2022 20:16

I have short hair.
I don’t wear dresses or heals.
I have hobbies that i don’t shut up about (some would consider them ‘male hobbies).
I take my phone to the loo when I’m taking a shit.
I love a pint of Guinness

The only thing I don’t have is a beard 🤣

I’m very much a woman, wouldn’t want to be a man but I guess it would be interesting to be one for a day.

Give it time and maybe a bit of pcos and you too can have a hairy chin

Metabigot · 26/06/2022 22:08

Nomoresmoresthensnores · 26/06/2022 22:01

A friend I know who is a transman (I knew as a woman)...almost overnight stopped responding in a normal way to texts. So became stereotypically male.. i.e. didn't properly organise the meet up. Didn't text with a bit of chat etc. Also stopped seeming interested in day to day chit chat (e.g. How's your mum doing?). I think this was a conscious thing to appear more blokey. But I've been told it's a consequence of taking testosterone and/or self-focused.

Interesting... so they weren't a man inside before then?
They became more manly after transitioning?

Blows the born in wrong body argument apart.

HeadOnShoulders · 26/06/2022 22:01

Be guided by logic...and your 'small head'. Mainly the latter actually.

Nomoresmoresthensnores · 26/06/2022 22:01

A friend I know who is a transman (I knew as a woman)...almost overnight stopped responding in a normal way to texts. So became stereotypically male.. i.e. didn't properly organise the meet up. Didn't text with a bit of chat etc. Also stopped seeming interested in day to day chit chat (e.g. How's your mum doing?). I think this was a conscious thing to appear more blokey. But I've been told it's a consequence of taking testosterone and/or self-focused.

OchonAgusOchonOh · 26/06/2022 21:47

LapinR0se · 26/06/2022 19:00

I would get up and have a quick shower, whack on basically the same outfit every day and go to work.
How liberating vs having to wash and dry hair, apply makeup, dress in lots of different styles, accessorise etc. It’s such a bloody waste of brain power (and yet I do it every day)

Oh dear. I'm failing at being a woman here too. I wear jeans and t-shirt/hoodie/jumper most days. I rarely wear make-up and usually drip dry my hair.

MistyRock · 26/06/2022 21:47

RoyKentsChestHair · 26/06/2022 19:23

On a family day out you’d need to not bother getting anyone but yourself dressed, don’t think about packing a bag with essentials for your children and then go and sit in the car impatiently moaning about why it’s taking everyone else so long to get ready to go.

So true.

OchonAgusOchonOh · 26/06/2022 21:43

MadMadMadamMim · 26/06/2022 18:58

IMO you would need to poo at work.

Every man I know seems happy to go for a long poo during work time with no embarrassment at all. Most of my female friends (and myself) are far more inhibited about this. I cannot imagine - in the absence of IBS or some kind of medical need - ever happily doing this.

Oh dear. I'm obviously male then. I regularly poo at work. Only if none of the other cubicles are occupied though but given I work in a male dominated area, that's usually the case.

BorisBooster · 26/06/2022 21:40

Become selectively deaf

Artichokeleaves · 26/06/2022 21:31

Demand to know why MN hasn't set up Dadsnet, while explaining in detail how disappointed you are that they dared to make provision that you perceive as women-centric without servicing male people first? And then disappear when told they have and hardly any men use it.... And start every post 'Man Here' to make clear that authority has arrived.

A stereotype that seems to be very much enacted is to talk to women as if you're an elderly, particularly conservative university professor from the 1930s, be as condescending and patronising as you possibly can, lavish your wise orders upon them, pat heads and then make sad disappointed daddy noises when they talk to you as if you're an ordinary person and their equal instead of God personified and won't do exactly as you say. Usually at this point you should mention cauldrons and broomsticks.

I thankfully meet very few actual men in reality who even approach this, but it really does seem to be a feature of the fly-by misogynists who wish to express a male gender.

The real defining feature of the much loved men in my life? The luxury of not having to worry or take on board anything that doesn't affect them personally, without the shadow of a doubt that someone else somewhere will sort it out. And she usually does.

Skinterior · 26/06/2022 21:21

Make a complete theatrical production of making a coffee.

Utterly TRASH the kitchen whilst doing it.

Andithoughtiwasspecial · 26/06/2022 21:21

Have sex without even worrying about pregnancy and the physical effect it could have on me. Financial maybe. Physical no....

1idea · 26/06/2022 21:20

Enjoy the extra calories i can eat without putting on weight

cato75 · 26/06/2022 21:19

Smile not planned anything (obviously) just checking it was equal.

WindmillOfWimbledon · 26/06/2022 21:19

It's the law that in any meeting, you talk over your female colleagues as if they're not there. Then waffle inanely, sucking up all the available oxygen in the room, and then credit the best suggestion to the man who definitely did not make it, rather than the woman who did.

Conflictedunicorn · 26/06/2022 21:07

cato75 · 26/06/2022 21:01

I'd be wondering when International Men's Day was.

19th November.

Comedyusername · 26/06/2022 21:06

I'd shout at women in cars and tell they how to drive better. Only women obviously

cato75 · 26/06/2022 21:01

I'd be wondering when International Men's Day was.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 26/06/2022 20:57

Actually they dint manspread nearly as much.

Of course they don't, because it's a territorial dominance display and that might get awkward with another man on a bus.