JenniferMint
09-13-2006, 04:10 PM
A few days ago, I went to MAC (an upscale makeup store) to buy makeup. All of their sales associates wear the same uniform, and are almost exclusively female.
So I approached an SA and asked for help, assuming she was female, but then I was thinking, hmm, this SA doesn't have any breasts... I couldn't tell by the voice since it was in a pitch range that could be either male or female, and he wasn't a native English speaker so the gender cues in his speech weren't as obvious. After a while, I decided the SA was male. I later confirmed it when I saw he had slight beard stubble (but he was shaven pretty cleanly).
I was thinking, wow, if he had put on breast forms and make-up, he could pass for a woman pretty easily. Then again, there was the fact that I *expected* him to be female, since he was working at MAC.
So I approached an SA and asked for help, assuming she was female, but then I was thinking, hmm, this SA doesn't have any breasts... I couldn't tell by the voice since it was in a pitch range that could be either male or female, and he wasn't a native English speaker so the gender cues in his speech weren't as obvious. After a while, I decided the SA was male. I later confirmed it when I saw he had slight beard stubble (but he was shaven pretty cleanly).
I was thinking, wow, if he had put on breast forms and make-up, he could pass for a woman pretty easily. Then again, there was the fact that I *expected* him to be female, since he was working at MAC.