Feel like a woman

[Bonnie Chan]

Wow, thanks much everyone for your well stated opinions. This is really interesting. I appreciate all your thoughts on this.

From what I've read so far, here's my conclusion so far:
- All male CDs here who say "I feel like a woman", they only mean some aspects of being a woman that a male doesn't usually have, such as a feeling of wearing woman cloth, being sexy, having breasts, being accepted as female from other people, etc. No one are claiming they know how woman feels everyday doing regular chores, working, etc.
- All male CDs seem to understand when other male CD says "I feel like a woman" that it means the above mentioned, though everyone exact definition will still be different, though in the similar spectrum.
- Based on 2 GGs here, it seems "I feel like a woman" is being interpreted differently as claiming one knows how woman feels.

So, now I have a question to GGs here: I can see how "I feel like a woman" can be interpreted as claiming to know how woman feels. I can see it the same as saying "I feel the same as a woman", and that really does have specific meaning that one claims to have all feeling like a woman. But what I don't understand is why can't we come to accept that when a male say "I feel like a woman", it doesn't mean that way? It's just a matter of language to express one's feeling. It's easily understood by male CDs here and so we use that broadly. So why not let it go and come to understand it doesn't mean anything deeply?
If this were to be said publicly with other people, then I will say it probably needs more discussions on whether this is really appropriate and whether it would likely cause bad consequences/misunderstanding. But in the forum here, at least, I think it should be fine to say "I feel like a woman" because it's an accepted language between most people here.

The comment doesn't offend me but.... When I see the threads that say "I feel like a woman" my eyes roll How can a male say that ? how do they know what it feels like to be a woman ? Now if they say "I can probably imagine how it feels to be a woman when I do this or when I dress" then yes maybe they can, but to say that you feel like a woman, nope it don't compute. It's like me saying I know what it's feels like to be a man :D

Thanks Sandra, it's a relieve to me to know that at least this is not rude in anyway. Btw, I find the term "I feel like a woman" different from "I know what it feels like to be a woman". It's more abstract, not having a specific meaning (as you can see from so many opinions here )
Let's look at it different way. What if someone says "I feel like a stick", what does that mean? To be honest, I don't know too I just want to see if it can mean differently from different perspective that all of us can share, because we all know what the stick is. To me, my best understanding of this would be, maybe he/she means that he/she feels his/her body is not flexible and cannot move much, like a stick? It's more like one saying "I feel like being a stick" to me. I must admit I'm confused too, and that's the point, that when one says "I feel like a <some noun here>", it's very abstract and we should not assume it means anything specific.

When CDers say, "I feel like a woman", it implies there is some universal way that women feel that the CDers have somehow tapped into. THERE ISN’T.

Reine, I'd like to say that, IMO, "I feel like a woman" does not really imply anything. If anything, it begs for more questions of what one actually really means. But of course I say that from my own perspective. You might think differently and I'm willing to hear more how/why we think differently. I'd love to understand more. I think in the end, this might be just a language issue because the term is too abstract for some of us and we use it instinctively so. But it seems to mean specific thing to most GGs here, which I'm not sure why yet. I don't want to say this might be because of our physical gender brain wiring difference yet as I believe all human beings are capable of the same thing given time and experience. One thing that I am different from most of us here is that English is not my native language, so I may understand it differently from lacking experiences. But I'll try my best

And so when CDers describe their enhanced feelings when they dress as "feeling like a woman", it rather describes an enhanced feeling. A more accurate way to describe this might be, "I feel [fill in the blank: excited/happy/great/high/aroused/etc] when I present as a woman". This is not how women feel when they go about their business on a day-to-day basis. We feel rather neutral, until something happens that triggers an emotion of some sort, like feeling annoyed if the person at the cash register in front of us takes much longer than is customary to transact their business.

I think you might be missing a point where CDs "feel like a woman" differently from woman "feel like a woman". Yes, I agree woman, just like other male, feel all kinds of things similarly. But that's not a point when CDs say "I feel like a woman". To me, it's more like saying "I feel [happy/excited/aroused/etc] because I feel like I'm a woman now, even though I'm male" and that doesn't imply woman must feel the same way I do, because you're not "male who feel like a woman".

Again, thanks much everybody for the replies! And I'd love to hear more of this

- Bonnie