If You Were Born The Opposite Gender....

...do you think you would be hot?

This topic came up after Sunday night hockey at the local watering hole last week.

My mom, well, looking back at her pictures when she was 25, she was like the Asian version of Jan Smithers from WKRP in Cincinnati. The same body type, the same hair, and the same super big geeky glasses.

My sister, during her 20's was an Asian version of Nicole Scherzinger from Pussycat Dolls. I am kind of surprised she didn't go out with more guys, but maybe that was due to her being more of a tomboy and being considered as one of the guys. Plus, people don't mess around when big brother is at the ready to give a good swift kick in the nuts to whoever got too fresh.

For myself, I would, if born female, undoubtedly, be hot. Pretty girls run in my family. Although, I'd probably be a lesbian. What about you?

Yes. I'd be hot.

I've three sisters to be able to make that judgement.

how can you guess you'd be a lesbian?

there's too much a mix of genes in my family to guess.

I have cousins with a big helping of the native american ancestor we share who are gorgeous dark haired and complected beauties, my grandmother on my dad's side was a petite redhead but was otherwise plain-faced

My mom had gorgeous black hair and a sort of Liz Taylor look but was not petite or slender. Never ever chubby at all but just one of those solidly built females.

you could have thrown all that in a mixer and came out with "hot" or "fugly"

or something in between. obviously I've speculated a good bit and I've come to the conclusion that if i had been so blessed, it would have been enough to not have been prone to excessive weight. if i dodged THAT bullet the rest would be much easier.

Oh, and if we are speculating on sexuality - I've always kind of figured i'd have been the high school slut.

If I was a woman and looked even vaguely the way I do now, I definitely would not be "hot."

To start with, I'd have to shave the beard...

I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.

I dunno, Async... I bet you could pull the bearded lady look...

Well, I suppose my sister was pretty. I can't call her "hot" without gagging, of course. Me... nah, I'm a toad, so I'd be a dog.

Here we are in 1970, when she was 19:
http://inpayne.com/temp/8thgrade_meandlynn.jpg

I don't have any sisters but I do have over half a dozen female cousins. Based on them, I'd have roughly a 50/50 chance of either being drop-dead gorgeous or simply butt-ugly.

Probably not, and I wouldn't give a shit.

Why do you think you would be constipated, just because you were a girl?

Hot or not, I'd never leave the house. I'd just stay at home and play with my breasts all day.

Forbin magically changes to a girl at the beach!

Didn't I see her on Space: 1999?

I would probably stay home and play with myself until I died of exhaustion. :dildo:

Probably not but I might have taken a little better care of myself.

God no. I would still be shaved bald, no makeup or cosmetics of any kind, dressed only for comfort and function. If I had big boobs, they'd probably annoy me when I try to work out. And I'd at least be tempted to look into some kind of elective surgery to put an end to my menstruation. There is no fucking way I'd ever want to give birth, and women probably wouldn't like me any more than they do now.

I would do me, I'd do me so hard.

my biological father was pretty handsome, so i'm gonna say i'd look alright. i would be very sad, tho. i like my bewbies. i don't want teh sausage.

I've never been attracted to ginger men, so maybe others would find me attractive, but it's difficult for me to be objective.

I'd be thin and fit, with straight hair and jeans,
just like I am now.

No one has any way of knowing how they would have looked if they were born the opposite gender.

It would have taken a different sperm to do it and who knows what genetic materials that would have contained.

Many, many kids look nothing like anyone else in their family. It makes this an exercise in futility.

I will say, however, that I know my name would have been "Ricky" if I'd been a boy and that alone is enough to be grateful that I'm not.

All true. I guess I was looking at it from the POV of "if everything else were the same and only your gender was different."

Another interesting question is, how differently would your family, your peers, and society in general have treated you if you were born the opposite gender?

My two sisters are both lovely, so I suppose I stood a good chance of looking alright too.

Tricky...it would depend how female-me's mind would be wired up.

Many of the cultural things I find interesting seem to have some facet of male-on-male violence attached.

That seems to be a testosterone influenced bag of goods.

Would a version of me pumped full of estrogen have been a submissive dainty little conformist?

I dunno...as a male, I didn't conform to the whole guns, sports, and car set of subcultures...

I'd like to think I would have likewise resisted dollies, and shoes, and found my own thing to do, but...hard to say...

But...if I had been that conscientious objector...it would have been a harder row to hoe...I'm thinking Carrie without the powers...

I'm told my brother is hot, so there's a fair chance I'd be at least remotely attractive.

My sister is pretty, but she takes after my Dad's side of the family, while I favor my maternal grandfather...who would NOT have looked good in drag. My mom is attractive, though, so it's hard to tell.

Since you looked like Molly Ringwald in your younger pictures, I'm guessing you'd have looked like Anthony Michael Hall.

Not only that, all this assuming they would have a similar attitude. Scorpy might have loved teh cock, Albert might have been a social butterfly who personified girly-girl. As difficult as it is to guess at how one might have looked, it's doubly hard to guess how one might have THOUGHT.

That's not how I took the hypothetical at all. What the fuck is the point in asking "If you were a completely different person, would you be a completely different person?" ?