How satisfied are you with your birth-assigned gender?

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lol, that is often what I feel like saying. On the other hand, I've been a dipwad many times myself, so I guess it evens out?

I disagree.

I also disagree. I think you're attractive.

WP one night stand--go to do to there, plskthx >_>

*draws a vagina over own head and flees to the mountains*

8. I am happy with being female, despite not fully conforming to the gender role. I am feminine but I tend to think like a man. Generic female interests bore me.

The other dislike I have is the hormonal cycle. If I could get rid of that, I would have voted 9.

Yeah, I don't know any benefits to PMS and menstruation.

I'd love the option to conform to feminine standards. I think I'd be better at it than masculine standards. Masculine social standards are too much about fronting toughness and competition for me to handle. I prefer self improvement to victory.

I also wish I could change as much about myself for my appearance as women do without it being considered a bad thing. I'd like to be able to dramatically alter my appearance with makeup and present my body in more varying ways using clothing without being harassed. Also, I know a lot of you girls disagree with me, but I prefer the sensory experience of dresses and skirts and panties and tights to men's clothing.

I have a much stronger feminine side than most men, but I don't really feel like a woman inside more than I do a man. I would probably have worse gender issues if not for my autism.

I'd endure it for the potential ability to perpetuate the species, but I have a serious hero complex. I'd endure just about anything to better or potentially save the human race. =/

Ability to have children - although if one does not want children then that wouldn't be a benefit - could even be a downside.

7 - Would say 9-10 in most aspects I like Rugby, gaming, shooting, archery, fencing and a beer in the pub with the lads a lot and I'd say being caring, sensitive with good principles i.e. a gentleman is what being a bloke is all about. Masculine standards are about strength and competition but act amused and saying 'a proper man knows he hasn't got anything to prove' usually works for me (mate taught me that one and how to say it right, sounds cartoony to me).

I do enjoy some unblokish things like cooking and cross stitch (and can sew,knit and croquet spending time with sick nan) don't care if other people don't like it (always taught a man should can do what he likes as long as it doesn't hurt anything unnecessarily). I have the last laugh as good food is the key to a woman's heart (well the right desert anyway) not just a mans.

The only aspect of being a bloke I don't like is that I'm meant spot and follow invisible signs that women are interested in me and tend to fail miserably. Either realising far too late, if at all that they like me or more usually missing the subtle sign saying 'GO AWAY ...' so if I do get the nerve to go up and say hello it usually ends badly. After a while you lose confidence and after that you've got less of a chance.

I did an experiment where my friend and I went out to collect girls phone numbers and answers to a quick questionnaire. Picking 20 women at random he got 17 out of 20 numbers (2 fake) and got rated as not too good looking but funny/charming, I got 1 out of 20 (fake number) and reasonably attractive but strange. The odd part is that I was wired and my friend supplied all of the words for me, even he couldn't understand the 5 min tirade of abuse I got off one woman.

Think if I was a women though I'd have a whole new set of problems.

5 - I don't have much of a gender identity - I'm asexual and don't have any inclinations towards any specific fashion of dress or behavior, but it would be nice to ditch some of the pressures and stereotypes associated with being female.

5. I think in either case I'd be bothered by gender-related expectations. I don't think about it and don't feel as if I have any gender in particular, psychologically, or really even understand the concept.

Aside from various practical matters (I would like to be a gender the people I find attractive are likely to be attracted to in turn, and to live in a country where my gender is not singled out for any particular abuse or mutilation), I don't care.

I chose 8. I am quite content to be a male, and while I don't bathe in machismo, I hate doing traditionally female things (like shopping). I can't imagine ever being a female.

I'm also not much for gender roles, except when they have a basis in biology. For instance, men typically have more upper-body strength, and are generally suited better for construction, firefighting, etc. When it comes to the modern economy, though, women are every bit as useful as men, and should be treated as such. I'm gay, but if I were straight, and my wife had a stellar career she wanted to continue, I'd happily be a stay-at-home dad to accomodate her and maximize our earning potential.

Yup, that's the odd part.
Are you pulling our collective leg?

I don't notice those macho expectations very much. I've seen it in the working class and right wing groups, and in one very traditionally-minded partner, but I seem to have got round it by selecting friends who don't go a bundle on the macho thing. Bohemians for example usually prefer guys to be a bit more androgynous, also intellectuals and a lot of musicians. Having spent so much time with them, I'm fairly confident with whatever natural level of male aura I have. I draw strength from a conviction that the other lot are wrong to be so binary about it. I suppose I've got a hard-nosed side I'm able to show, but I don't see it as especially male, just what anybody would need to do if they got walled up with competitive people.

I'd put it at a 5.

In my emotional, irrational heart, I feel more like a nerdy effeminate man than a female. But when I look at the situation with a dash more objectivity........

1. I suck at being female, and I would probably suck at being a male. I'm "too butch/ugly" to be in a female body, but I'm too much of a wuss to be considered a "proper man" as per U.S. American standards. Conclusion: "gender roles" suck monkey butt.

2. Biologically, I hate period and PMS and the fact my body has essentially evolved to serve as a sack for a fetus. More upper body strength would be sweet, as would the ability to pee standing up. HOWEVER, I wouldn't want to deal with the male sex drive (which seems more like a disease the way dudes describe it), and external genitalia has drawbacks. Oh, and men are missing an entire leg of a chromosome, so there's all sorts of diseases/conditions/ect. that males can fall victim to more so than females.

3. Socially, I get along with weird people, doesn't matter if they're male, female, or intersex.

IDEALLY, I'd like to construct a body set to my own personal specifications and flush "gender" down the cultural toilet.

My view on my sexuality is weird. I put a 5.