Gender Swap/Reversal?

[Mhari]

It's too bad we have 'tom boys' for girls and nothing for boys, other than 'sissy.' It seems like we expect girls to go through a phase where they explore the excepted domain of the opposite gender, but we really freak out when little boys do the same. Doesn't mean it's not there, but it's easy to forget that it is and that it's healthy when we have no language for it.

I don't think it's healthy. (the allout supression of the feminine side of the male, to clarify)

I definitely agree with this. It seems so wrong for me to be able to be a "tomboy" and do all kinds of "blokey" stuff and dress like a guy...but it's wrong for a guy to do "girly" stuff and dress like a girl.

I mean...if you saw a chick walking down the street in a vest and tie, you'd think she was just being "trendy". What do you think if you see a guy walking down the street in a sexy skirt and heels? (Assuming one would ever see such a thing.)

Society really does suck sometimes.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I definitely agree with this. It seems so wrong for me to be able to be a "tomboy" and do all kinds of "blokey" stuff and dress like a guy...but it's wrong for a guy to do "girly" stuff and dress like a girl.

I mean...if you saw a chick walking down the street in a vest and tie, you'd think she was just being "trendy". What do you think if you see a guy walking down the street in a sexy skirt and heels? (Assuming one would ever see such a thing.)

Society really does suck sometimes.

I'm with you, M, but I recently saw a man on a street corner in Austin wearing a black leotard (think swimsuit) and black pantyhose with a pair of black heels and he looked more than a little out of place. Hell, I'd have looked out of place wearing that on a busy street corner. Unless, of course, I was hooking but there's not been a need for that lately.

But I agree. I actually admire a guy that can wear pink dress shirts and such. It's still male attire but I know they get some ribbing for it.

~lucky (quite the tomboy)

 

[whispering_surrender]

yesterday, she was asking me fashion tips, because apparently I have the better fashion sense (She'll kill me for saying that, haha),

You are in SO much trouble Mister! (but the rest of it was pretty sweet....perhaps I'll let you off light)

Whisp

 

[cantdog]

Whisper--

We should hear from you more often!

Raphy bears watching!!

cantdog

 

[cantdog]

This isn't what you think, or maybe it is?

Tatelou, you are a national treasure, in at least three nations.



I started a novel once about a guy who is reincarnated as a woman, or, of course, at first,m as a girl. Her (his?) dad is holding a gun on her, thinking she's an abomination of some kind, in the first scene. It drew me into the thread, but it turns out to be quite a different thing.

I got seven chapters in before I realized that no one could have stood having the poor sod around, and someone would surely kill her (him?) by the time she was ten or so. It was going to be a deferred revenge story, wherein the girl confronts and totally wipes the floor with his nemesis in his previous life. I spent days of outline time on it.

In the trunk now, unfinished....

cantdog

 

[destinie21]

Too often "in bed" with a man I've seen a look that tells me he's frightened. Not simply scared, of me or sex, but of my "blokeness". I like that.

Perdita

that's the coolest thing I've ever heard.

 

[Guest]

that's the coolest thing I've ever heard.

Dest., I'm stunned. Thanks for saying that. Sorry to hear about Renza's back pains. I never had any and have nothing to offer but good wishes.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Gender Swap/Reversal?

Tatelou, you are a national treasure, in at least three nations.



I started a novel once about a guy who is reincarnated as a woman, or, of course, at first,m as a girl. Her (his?) dad is holding a gun on her, thinking she's an abomination of some kind, in the first scene. It drew me into the thread, but it turns out to be quite a different thing.

I got seven chapters in before I realized that no one could have stood having the poor sod around, and someone would surely kill her (him?) by the time she was ten or so. It was going to be a deferred revenge story, wherein the girl confronts and totally wipes the floor with his nemesis in his previous life. I spent days of outline time on it.

In the trunk now, unfinished....

cantdog

Thanks, babe!

You should finish that novel! That kind of thing fascinates me. I started a novel once, along a similar theme. A female research scientist is working on gender changing drugs. She makes quite a ground-breaking discovery, but cannot get the funding or volunteers to take her research further. So, she starts injecting herself. It's not so much the physical changes that I was into as much at the psychological ones. She begins displaying "odd" behaviour and the rest of the novel was to be about her experiences and how she coped with what was happening to her.

I might go back to it one day.

That was what this thread was really meant to highlight; how men and women are perceived to think differently. Not so much about what the genders do, that go against the stereotypes, but how they think, privately, and react to certain visual or mental stimuli.

Thanks for making me recall this, Cant.

Lou

 

[oggbashan]

Re: Re: Gender Swap/Reversal?

Tatelou, you are a national treasure, in at least three nations.

Do I approach the National Trust, English Heritage or do I try to get World Heritage Site status for Lou?

Perhaps I'll try all three. Provisionally she is listed as Grade II* which means that her external and internal structures cannot be interfered with - without seeking and obtaining planning permission first.

Og

PS. Fees for planning permission are high.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: Gender Swap/Reversal?

Do I approach the National Trust, English Heritage or do I try to get World Heritage Site status for Lou?

Perhaps I'll try all three. Provisionally she is listed as Grade II* which means that her external and internal structures cannot be interfered with - without seeking and obtaining planning permission first.

Og

PS. Fees for planning permission are high.

Awww, shucks, Og!

That made me laugh, hard. Who should anyone apply to, to seek planning permission?

I don't fancy being a National Trust monument - all those people traipsing over me, flasks of tea in hand, snapping shots of my architecture.

Lou

 

[whispering_surrender]

Whisper--

We should hear from you more often!

Raphy bears watching!!

cantdog

Awww, thank you. *hugs* I've been working a lot lately. (New job as part of a new management team.) Hopefully, if we do our jobs right....*crosses fingers*...I'll have more time once some of the changes are implemented and lazy people start doing it right the first damn time.....oops, slipped into rant for a moment. It's okay, I'm done now.

Whisp

 

[oggbashan]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Gender Swap/Reversal?

Who should anyone apply to, to seek planning permission?

Lou

Me, of course. It could raise funds for your continued maintenance and preservation from the trolls.

Og

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gender Swap/Reversal?

Me, of course. It could raise funds for your continued maintenance and preservation from the trolls.

Og

You are so sweet to little me.

In my sigline, I might just have to put something to the effect of "To apply for planning permission to interfere with my internal and external structures, contact Og."

Hehehehe!

Lou