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Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#5501: Aug 19th 2009 at 2:19:52 PM

Meaty, I think you're giving too much credit to gender roles and the stereotypes applied to each sex. Just because our culture says that some things are masculine and some things are feminine doesn't mean they inherently are. People are too complex for that. So, FUCK the roles, FUCK the sterotypes. They do us no good.

The only thing you need to concern yourself with is how you perceive yourself. Does you body feel 'right'? If it does, you're probably female. If this is the case, don't take that to mean you have to be stereotypically feminine. Nobody, and I mean nobody can conform to those standards, and nobody should try. They're utter crock. If it feels 'off', start trying to figure out what would feel 'right' to you. Don't rush. It's not something that can be figured out in a day or two. Additionally, this is something only YOU can figure out.

edited 19th Aug '09 2:23:36 PM by Miijhal

Nornagest Since: Jan, 2001
#5502: Aug 19th 2009 at 2:38:27 PM

Well, you've certainly spent a lot of time talking about gender roles recently, which does point to a certain preoccupation with the topic. About all I can suggest, though, is to worry about it less. Restricting your behavior based on what's in your pants seems, at best, kind of petty and small-minded — although it's never a bad thing to consider the symbolism of how you're acting, which is not quite the same topic.

Don't get too emotionally invested in your perception as feminine or as gender-variant; either one can be a trap if your behavior starts to evolve out of it.

edited 19th Aug '09 2:40:06 PM by Nornagest

I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.
MadeofMeat Since: Jan, 2001
#5503: Aug 19th 2009 at 5:36:53 PM

My body feels wrong, but I think a male body would feel wrong too.

AFGNCAAP Not axe crazy I swear from Great Underground Empire Since: Jun, 2009
Not axe crazy I swear
#5504: Aug 19th 2009 at 6:13:12 PM

I wonder if there is a name for not caring which body you have—it feeling irrelevant in relation to what's in your head. That would be me. If that connection is part of you, though, it's pretty complex and worth asking yourself a lot of questions about. For instance, what would feel right? You don't have to choose one gender or another to answer that; combine as you wish.

Also, while it's not overcast, I wonder if I might make peace with the night sky, and how. I'd give it a ring, but I can't for obvious reasons.

Some writing.
MadeofMeat Since: Jan, 2001
#5505: Aug 19th 2009 at 6:16:55 PM

You really want to know? Okay. You asked for it. 100% serious, this is what I feel my body should be like. It's not my "ideal body", it's honestly how I feel when I look inside myself. It's how I assume I look when I first wake up in the morning, when I'm dimly aware of reality and a song is playing on loop in my head clear as day.  

Something tall and lithe with no genitals, no breasts, very long hair and multiple, tentacle-like limbs, with a highly flexible spine.

Please don't laugh. I am so serious.

edited 19th Aug '09 6:19:27 PM by Made of Meat

AFGNCAAP Not axe crazy I swear from Great Underground Empire Since: Jun, 2009
Not axe crazy I swear
#5506: Aug 19th 2009 at 6:22:13 PM

I see nothing to laugh about; I'm open to anything.

How do you get a song in your head in the morning, though, if it's not the one that wasn't letting you sleep the night before?

Some writing.
MadeofMeat Since: Jan, 2001
#5507: Aug 19th 2009 at 6:24:22 PM

I have no idea. Sometimes it's a song I haven't heard in months, but there it is, perfect, like I'm listening to a CD. It plays until I realize who I really am.

Matrix Since: Jan, 2001
#5508: Aug 19th 2009 at 6:28:13 PM

I want to be able to mess around with my sex at will.

I don't like being stuck as only one.

LullTheConqueror Love Freak from eternal loli Hell Since: Jan, 2001
#5509: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:28:41 PM

If I were to choose an absolutely ideal body for myself...

I'd say six feet tall, blue skinned, futanari succubus with cute little red horns and ruby-red eyes that shade to solid pools of sanguine light when I'm feeling excited. Oh, and my tail (of course I have a tail!) is prehensile.

the dice are loaded, the deck is stacked, the game itself will hold you back
GoggleFox rrrrrrrrr from Acadia, yo. Since: Jul, 2009
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#5510: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:36:41 PM

... I see.

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#5511: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:38:36 PM

Lull is Lull.

Personally I think that my body is pretty fine as-is, since I really don't much care about it  except

.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
AFGNCAAP Not axe crazy I swear from Great Underground Empire Since: Jun, 2009
Not axe crazy I swear
#5512: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:42:09 PM

Me? It's not who I am inside, admittedly, but a body that would ease a lot of my mental issues: a humanoid robot that is able to move like a thing of flesh. Gender could be purely secondary characteristics. Somewhat like how I use clothes already, I'd have mechanics as an excuse to wear less loose clothing than others in a work setting, maybe less in general.

A mechanical body would be like the difference between one plane of existence and a higher one, because we couldn't have put the body together if we didn't understand every inch of it and everything it could do. Finally it would belong to me.

Some writing.
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#5513: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:46:00 PM

Don't worry, Lullsy, we all imagine you as a blue...Futanari...Succubus...

tongue

I'd like to be legitimately cute and pretty, although I'm not sure how that would be accomplished. And, of course, I'd like to be physically female, too.

edited 19th Aug '09 8:53:11 PM by Miijhal

GoggleFox rrrrrrrrr from Acadia, yo. Since: Jul, 2009
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#5514: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:48:06 PM

I'm actually mostly happy with my body as it is. Which I guess is hard to do?

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.
EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#5515: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:49:18 PM

What makes someone psychically female, anyway?

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#5516: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:51:05 PM

I always associate the term "psychically" with Psychic Powers, I really shouldn't. =/

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#5518: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:53:29 PM

I'm tired and in a bad mood. Sue me. :P

edited 19th Aug '09 8:54:01 PM by Miijhal

EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#5519: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:54:15 PM

I... er... wasn't trying to be a smartass. Sorry.

GoggleFox rrrrrrrrr from Acadia, yo. Since: Jul, 2009
rrrrrrrrr
#5520: Aug 19th 2009 at 8:54:52 PM

*had actually posted before Miijhal...* The order my post came out in feels... off.

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#5521: Aug 19th 2009 at 9:02:49 PM

@EI: No worries. Even in a bad mood, I still have room for general silliness (My sanity depends on it). Including poking fun at stupid spelling mistakes. :P

edited 19th Aug '09 9:03:05 PM by Miijhal

Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#5522: Aug 19th 2009 at 9:04:42 PM

I've spent time wondering about how I dress and whether or not it's a selfish cry for attention. My mother seems to be convinced it is as are some others. It worried me and still does every so often when I'm sad or something.

For the most part I've seemed to have settled on "fuck it, I'm dressing however I feel comfortable and if that changes over time fine."

I've also wondered as to why I crossdress. I can't seem to find an answer besides "it feels like me and looks like me". I can't find an answer besides that and I don't know if I need a better one...I feel like I do sometimes and at others feel like it doesn't matter either way.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#5523: Aug 19th 2009 at 9:18:33 PM

I don't think there really is a better reason that 'I do it because it feels right', and there really doesn't need to be. If it makes you feel better, then why not?

GoggleFox rrrrrrrrr from Acadia, yo. Since: Jul, 2009
rrrrrrrrr
#5524: Aug 19th 2009 at 9:20:46 PM

^ Miijhal speaks truth.

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.
Golem \m/ ('.') \m/ from New York Since: Jan, 2001
\m/ ('.') \m/
#5525: Aug 19th 2009 at 9:58:04 PM

My ideal body would be my own, but with the physique of the comic book version of Batman. Really.

"They wanted to play 'memes' with the Old School. Now there are tears." - Fast Eddie

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