A friend forwarded me a link to a wiki site. As I was looking, I realized that females are often hit with a lot of options that men never will and it gave me the idea for this weeks hypothetical. Male or Female?
Let’s say you have the opportunity to experience life as the opposite sex. You would become an extremely blessed male or female in all areas that are possible; looks, personality, wisdom, brains, perfect body and all of the opportunities that typically come to these people. This would be for a minimum of one month.
Would you take this chance and if so, which sex do you think would be the most fun?
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The relative term here is “extremely blessed”. I don’t know that I would ever want to be extremely blessed, without regard to my gender. I’ll just stick to being plain ole’ boring Christine. Knowing my luck, I would turn out to be the “extremely blessed Chris”; and that is an option I’m not so sure I want. (Inside joke to my fellow LinkWorth-ers). I’ll stick with Christine and leave me as me. How does the phrase go? Oh yea, “I like me”.
I think you have to be one that takes chances to do this. While I am tempted to say I would “try it for a month”, I think I like the mystique of a woman and don’t ever want to say “I know what you mean” and actually mean that.
Plus, I think women have it better than men in a lot of phases, but overall, women have to go through a LOT more that I would never want to go through. I’ll take the easy road and remain a male.
….”Chris” … HAA!
Man! Man! Man!
Intriguing, but I couldn’t do it. Dudes have it pretty easy by comparison and our shortcomings are all chalked up to “boys being boys” or one of the other million cliches.
“Ronda” has a nice ring to it, though…
I’ll stick to being a guy…even an extremely blessed woman has to sit down to pee.
I’d started to say that I’d jump at the chance. I mean, it’d be nice to spend a month not being expected to clean up after myself or the kids, hearing “What’s for dinner?”, or dealing with cramps, bras and worrying about every little calorie. I’d be able to burp without anyone raising an eyebrow, monopolize the remote control without feeling remorse and, let’s face it, having to shave a face daily isn’t nearly as much of a hassle as having to shave two legs, two armpits and a bikini line every freaking morning.
But then I realized that if I was a guy for a month (and assuming I was a straight guy), I wouldn’t get laid unless I was willing to put up with women.
That’s just SO not worth it to me.
As long as I could go back to being a guy I suppose it could be `interesting` for a month. Just those darned monthly things I`d want to avoid, but of course that`s all part and parcel of being a female.
I was waiting to hear your take on it Kate. HA! I thought of the sex factor ([#7] because men supposedly have sex on the mind every 7 seconds), but didn’t want to say that.
If you read that article I linked to above, based on #8, if I was a woman, I would have huge legs.
I read “Self-Made Man” (http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/dp/0670034665) a while back – and it convinced me that being a man is actually a lot harder than I realized. I don’t think I could hack it. I’m comfortable the way I am – and I wouldn’t want to learn a lifetime’s worth of socialization in just a month.
Ron, I’d never read about those before. It almost makes me wonder why gyms aren’t making those part of their ad campaigns.
I think I’m due for a workout.
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