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Not necessarily whether you'd want to, since most people seem happy with their birth sex/the sex they've grown up with.
Like do you ever try to see things from your SO's point of view? Or just what it would be like to be a man/woman in general?
Do you imagine how your life would've been different if you were a man/woman? How it might change your personality, if at all.etc.
I sometimes do, not a great deal, but I do imagine what it'd like if I was born female (or black, or a bald eagle, for that matter, haha). I think I'd be similar, obviously with some female traits that I don't have, but innately I'd be the same person I am now.
Too funny. I tell my friends in my next life I'm coming back as a man. I think you guys have it much easier and I envy you that.
I absolutely agree that we have it easier! I'm grateful for that! Just this morning I was thinking, thank god I don't have to shave my legs all of the time To be fair though, we don't look nearly as good as ya'll
Not necessarily whether you'd want to, since most people seem happy with their birth sex/the sex they've grown up with.
Like do you ever try to see things from your SO's point of view? Or just what it would be like to be a man/woman in general?
Do you imagine how your life would've been different if you were a man/woman? How it might change your personality, if at all.etc.
I sometimes do, not a great deal, but I do imagine what it'd like if I was born female (or black, or a bald eagle, for that matter, haha). I think I'd be similar, obviously with some female traits that I don't have, but innately I'd be the same person I am now.
Yes, definitely! Maybe it's just thinkers like us that ponder "counterfactual worlds".
I remember in primary school there was an assignment once for like really young kids about something like that -- imagine you were a different person etc. You could be a boy or a girl or someone born in San Francisco or Venice or Timbuktu etc. I think ability to imagine yourself as the "other" is a key part of being human and also having basic empathy etc.
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While I do try to understand other's perspectives, I cannot think of one time when I have tried to think about what it would be like to be a man. From what I can see, it would probably be pretty gross.
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Originally Posted by LookinForMayberry
While I do try to understand other's perspectives, I cannot think of one time when I have tried to think about what it would be like to be a man. From what I can see, it would probably be pretty gross.
Why gross? I imagine having periods would be gross to...
But I think it'd be better if more people tried to imagine what it'd be like. Of course you can never know, but trying to understanding will help.
Yes. sometimes I wonder how they are able to walk around with all their 'equipment' squeezed into a tiny space and moving about constantly.
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To be fair though, we don't look nearly as good as ya'll 
