Gender selective behavior?

[AmberTG]

I posted this on my 360 blod a few days ago, I thought it might be appropriate to post it here also.

Gender selective behavior?
This is something I've been thinking about today. I've been wondering if the things I do are male oriented or female oriented and I can only come up with a couple things that would be primarily male oriented, the rest of the things I do are what I would consider "gender neutral" I don't think too many women use a chainsaw, but I could even be wrong about that too!
I think that sometimes my natural reaction to certain things is more of a "typical" female reaction then a "typical" male reaction. I realise it after it happens, it's never planned. A lot of times I don't even see it until later. I have to wonder if this has anything to do with why I've always had trouble making friends with other men in the past. I have to wonder if I was unconciously sending out mixed signals that made other men uncomfortable around me. I've never fit into the "good ole boy" crowd anyway, I was never comfortable with "manly" things, the whole "bravado" thing just escapes me, always has. I guess I can be as crude as the next person, but apparently not in the "proper manly"way, and crudeness is not something that I normally do, unless you consider fart jokes to be crude.
I went to the local air show last weekend and had an impromptu conversation with a young man who was there with his son, he said something offhand that started the conversation. (I was in drab, as usual for around my home town) Anyway, I found myself having to shift my brain into male mode to talk to him, it didn't come naturally to me. Maybe the estrogen has changed my thought process a bit, I didn't think it had until then. Or maybe it's just my natural personality, the one that's been held inside for so long, coming out now, I really don't know! Sometimes when you think you have things figured out, you really haven't a clue!

[Sarahgurl371]

I think that way as well, wondering if this is a male or female "whatever." But, I think it was cleared up one evening as I was working on my car. My wife said to me "you are so lucky that you can fix that." My immeadiate response was "Luck has nothing to do with it." "I have too."

I do many things that one would associate with male behavior. I have too. I am playing that role. Always have been. My parents saw a penis, and said "Son", so they taught me to be a respectable, self reliant, man. That was their responsibility. They could not have known I would feel as I do. So all my life I have done what I have been taught to do. If that includes fixing the car, or building a barn, whatever, it falls on my plate to accomplish it. Its my job.

I guess the big difference is that there are some who "enjoy" these "male" activites. And the ones who don't, don't have the internal questions about gender to confuse the fact that "I really hate this ________________, but its my job to do it." And I am sure that there are females who enjoy running a chainsaw. And to them maybe its a sense of breaking the female role to do so, maybe they truly enjoy it and no one gives it another thought.

[Marcie Sexton]

Hmmm, interesting. I too was taught all the necessary things that a male would need in life, which isn't a bad thing.

They also taught me all the girl things that a woman would need in life.

Cooking, cleaning, laundry, ironing, bed making, and child rearing...Even though I still enjoy some of the guy things, I now find my self attracted to
the girl things. Even in drab, I enjoy doing house work and laundry...the standing joke for me was that I would make some woman a good wife...

Boy did they ever hit the nail on the head...