Gender identity
Mar. 16th, 2006 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dionysus1999A friend on one of my LJ lists posted this interesting article:
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2006-03-16/news/feature.html?src=newsletter
It got me thinking about my own unintentional gender mindcrimes. I had long hair when I was a late teen to around my mid-20's. Its been short since then, main reason is I hate the in-between stage so much.
I'm 5'4", and back then was relatively thin (years of going to the gym and junk food have put me in the average build range), so I had a number of people calling me ma'am and miss. This annoyed me back then, but today I find it amusing, I was a gender-bender without even planning on it.
I was a co-moderator for a gender-related bulletin board in college. The other moderator was a young woman who would have called her look butch. She was shaped more like Marilyn Monroe than Rock Hudson, though. She was mistaken for a man based on her clothing and short hair. You'd have to have been blind not to notice those womanly hips.
Had a friend tell me I would make a good-looking woman in college. I know she meant it as a compliment, though I thought it was odd at the time. While I don't have a block head, I don't think anyone would say I have a feminine face. I think I'd make a homely woman.
Although, I'd look less odd as a woman than a transexual who's 6'5".
Why does it seem like male to female transgendered folks are mostly over 6', and the female to males tend to have bombshell figures? My guess is that it's the law of averages, many men are over 6', many women have womanly bodies.
Too bad we can't just swap these folks' bodies, it would save them a lot of trouble with all the hormones and surgery and such.
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2006-03-16/news/feature.html?src=newsletter
It got me thinking about my own unintentional gender mindcrimes. I had long hair when I was a late teen to around my mid-20's. Its been short since then, main reason is I hate the in-between stage so much.
I'm 5'4", and back then was relatively thin (years of going to the gym and junk food have put me in the average build range), so I had a number of people calling me ma'am and miss. This annoyed me back then, but today I find it amusing, I was a gender-bender without even planning on it.
I was a co-moderator for a gender-related bulletin board in college. The other moderator was a young woman who would have called her look butch. She was shaped more like Marilyn Monroe than Rock Hudson, though. She was mistaken for a man based on her clothing and short hair. You'd have to have been blind not to notice those womanly hips.
Had a friend tell me I would make a good-looking woman in college. I know she meant it as a compliment, though I thought it was odd at the time. While I don't have a block head, I don't think anyone would say I have a feminine face. I think I'd make a homely woman.
Although, I'd look less odd as a woman than a transexual who's 6'5".
Why does it seem like male to female transgendered folks are mostly over 6', and the female to males tend to have bombshell figures? My guess is that it's the law of averages, many men are over 6', many women have womanly bodies.
Too bad we can't just swap these folks' bodies, it would save them a lot of trouble with all the hormones and surgery and such.
