If You Were Born The Opposite Gender....

That assumes your entire personality is based in your . Not surprising.

I know I would be!

I'm picturing a female UA in a nun's habit

No it doesn't, Ms. "Context Matters". That's your cute little spin on it.

And here's a pic! Looks like UA was a nun in a past life.

No, that's your failure to explain why, if you'd been born with the same brain but different sex organs, you'd be "a completely different person."

If an explanation isn't enough for you, try asking before you leap to ignorant-ass conclusions.

I did not initially assume I'd be a different person. That angle was brought up by other people, and then I commented on it by saying it makes the exercise pointless.

Stop skimming threads for ways you can be annoying.

I wonder how often Nun UA takes vows of silence...

Again, you didn't explain yourself very well and, again, mostly it comes down to "because UA says so."

Oh, shut the hell up. I explained myself fine. You just either didn't read the first thing I said, or forgot about it by the time you got to the second page, and now you don't want to admit it.

I took my cue from "do you think you would be hot?"

If the only thing that's changing is gender then for most people the answer to that doesn't require too much speculation (of course it also depends on your definition of "hot")

I kind of read that as involving a lot more speculation.

Then again, he declared he'd have been a lesbian so that implies just the opposite I guess - nothing changes but the gender-specific parts.

So, yeah, i guess you'd end up a hyper-butch in that scenario wouldn't ya?

Oh, thank god. And here I thought this thread was just an excuse to drool over pictures of our own family members.

A homely, unkempt hyper-butch.

No, you'd be the same totally different person, not a totally different totally different person.

I'd still have a mustache.

Oh, then fuck, I'd be a fucking mess.
I'd look like Velma from Scooby Doo, and act like the older daughter on "Bob's Burgers".

Don't say that. I have a crush on Velma.

.......ditto..

That's exactly UA's point. If he had the same brain, but a different gender, he would be like "this".

Someone else suggested that if you were a different gender, you'd have a different personality.


As of me, growing up everyone commented on how much my brother and I looked alike - so much so that we often joked about being twins two years apart.

Yet that didn't stop him from constantly telling me how ugly I was.

Then in junior high and high school, all my friends would tell me how good looking my brother was - one friend once told me she made friends with me so she could get close to my brother - not that he ever once took notice of her.

Anyway, I always wondered ... if we look so much alike, how is it that he's so good looking, but I'm so ugly?

Tables have turned tho. As an adult, he's bald, pudgy and on the short side for a guy - shorter than my other brothers anyway. He's probably 5'10. The other three are all over 6 ft.

And, I think I look better now than I did as a teenager. I just wish I had that same body ...

To a certain extent that's true, in the sense that we're not pure intellect, and a lot of what we become depends not just on hormones, but on what society tells us is "appropriate" behavior for males versus females and how much or how little we buy into that.



BTW, $corp, I don't know if you were aware that today was International Women's Day, but this topic is particularly timely in that respect. That said, a "day," in terms of highlighting the discrepancies between men and women in the workplace, etc., is a good thing, IMO, but as far as a "Women's History Month," I tend to view that the way Morgan Freeman views "Black History Month," i.e., I look forward to the day when it's just "history."

We're not there yet but, Rush Limbaugh notwithstanding, we're getting there.

I think every transgendered person on earth will tell you there is far more to gender than sex organs.

If I was exactly the same person in a male body, I would be in great pain as I would know I was in the wrong gendered body.

It's worse. They were going to name me Ricky outright, not as a nickname. And even more screwy, it's after my Dad's nickname Rick, despite his real name being Alfred.

Bizarre. Thankfully, my Mom saw my name in the paper and liked the spelling, because the original girl's name I was going to be was after my grandmother, who was named in 1908 with a name appropriate to the time which I would have loathed. At least it wasn't my other grandmother though, because "Beulah" would have killed me.

When I have daughters, I reserve the right to nickname them Buelah when they get on my nerves.

So we'd have Aunt Albert and Mr. Albert. would be : aa : and would be : mra :

Yes, I knew, and yes, the topic was somewhat related. I didn't think the topic was 'smart' enough to warrant a mention of International Women's Day, so I just made it and let it go as a regular RR topic.

Velma was a lot of fellas' introduction to the whole, "secretly hot nerd girl" meme.

And then somebody went and did this:

Out of the three of us kids, my youngest sister is the most attractive, so I think my chances are pretty slim of looking any better as the opposite sex. I think my older sister and I filtered the unattractive genes away so my baby sister got all the good genes.

I'm going say, all things being equal, if $corp woke up a woman he'd have to adapt to two new realities, first sitting down to pee and second his new found lesbianism.

UA's description back there reminds me of a bulldike I used to party with in my youth.

She hated her tits so much she had them removed.