Sandra Forgues: becoming a woman was a victory more profound than the Olympic title

[MrsSnippyPants]

Sorry, can’t get the share token to work, maybe someone else can? This might be in the sport section.

The times in my life I’ve felt most womenly are when I’ve been doing something strong. There is something about using the full extent of my body that makes me feel like a woman.

ICJump, I've been thinking about this brilliant point of yours all day and you're SO right.

I'm in my 40s, things are starting to sag and ache. But I glory in the feeling of exercising hard, doing something that takes all my strength, fixing things and making things.

I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME FUCKING ROAR. Not mimsying about doing twinkly little laughs and being far too weak and laydeelike to move a bloody chair.

Even so, I hope that he gets to interview McKinnon

Just trying to imagine the adjectives....
Petit, sweet-faced, blushful, over-modest....

Fragrant , erm slight of build,modest, twinkling, fragrant, brave beyond bravery
Stunning ,
More modest than modest
Fragrant
Demure
Delicate

Are you edging towards 'coquettish' LBD?
Too much?

Perched delicately on the sud

I am rowan

Oops!
Perched delicately on her side saddle.
The interviewer and photographer had to help her off the bicycle as she blushed coyly.

So th3 person is described as how men think women should be it seems to me
Cripes
Don’t they know any real women

Oh yeah coy 💥

surely they 'rushed to be of assistance' Chewy?

There'll be coat laying over puddles next.

I don't think I've ever demurred bashfully in my life. This is because I'm a woman and not a man's fantasy of a woman.

And yeah, Bloom, the article does come across as having been written with one hand while the other was down the pants.

I don't think I've ever demurred bashfully in my life.

Yes, but if you identify as a Bashful Demurrer, you'll be one because it will immediately become truer than the truest thing that was ever true.

ROwantrees how could I miss that - of course they rushed, with manful strides 🥰

Commissioning editor: "Hey, James, fancy a trip to France? We've been taking a bit of flak here for our so-called anti-trans stand, so you might like the opportunity to redress the balance a bit with a human-interest, but sport-related piece? It could be a good opportunity for you to broaden your portfolio. "

Before, whenever she opened her mouth, the deep pitch of her speech did not match the feminine tenor of her thoughts and feelings.

Pretty sure that the voices we describe as "tenor" are the ones attached to individuals with testicles. A higher pitched female voice would be described as "soprano"...

Wait, is he calling Pavarotti a woman?

Being serious for a moment - based on the comments the comically sexist individual who wrote the article was not intending to take the piss. The editor who commissioned the piece on the other hand? Would the Times normally hire anyone who writes that badly? Mills and Boon would have rejected him on the grounds that his writing is too florid. It reads like someone spoofing a Barbara Cartland novel.

I presume he meant tenor as in tone, meaning but it's very poor writing to use it when talking about the characteristics of someone's voice

But what are feminine thoughts and feelings
How can I tell if my thoughts and feelings are feminine enough ☹️☹️

And do they match my voice which is husky with the lurgy

You're a woman when you're healthy but currently in transition to becoming the man you've always been inside, obviously.

I can never get over the feeling that I've just read something that would have been best kept for the diary and tucked away in a drawer when men write this kind of stuff. Knowing too much about a stranger's innermost fantasties is uncomfortable. Especially when a refusal to lift furniture plays such an oddly pronounced role.

Definitely one for the diary but the advent of anonymous forums has unfortunately led to a lot of people sharing things that would have been better kept private!

I was reading a really bizarre account on Reddit earlier of what a transwoman had learned being a woman was all about since transitioning. It entirely focused on high heels, nail polish, second hand underwear (!), going to the loo and wearing tights.

I occasionally think about going to the loo (((my pelvic floor))) but can honestly say none of the rest of those things have anything to do with my experience of being a woman.

Haha my inner man

OMG, you know what this means? One could potentially re-transition by buying some lozenges. Ricola, the wonderdrug!

It entirely focused on high heels, nail polish, second hand underwear (!), going to the loo and wearing tights.

My personal inner ladyessence just recoiled at the idea of wearing someone else's manky used knickers.

(Totes not a fetish, nothing to see there! All women dream of wearing other women's knickers, it's very validating.)