Woman vs Female

[Bonnie Chan]

Thanks Megan for your honest reply. From what I've seen so far, I find it interesting that all woman here think "feel like a woman" differently than all males here. I'm very curious if this is just a limitation of our brain differences, or hormone, that makes us interpret this differently?

But I'll bring this up again, as this is the standard definition that I believe we should adhere to. It's what language is for so everybody understands the same meaning:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/feel+like
feel like someone or something
to have the feel of someone or something; to seem to be someone or something according to feel or touch. Ex. Whoever this is feels like Tom. Sort of soft and pudgy. This thing feels like a rubber hose, not a hot dog.

So when someone says "Whoever this is feels like Tom", do you mean that "whoever that is" must have a life experience like Tom to just feel like Tom? In the other thread, someone gave a good example saying "I feel like a poop" which probably means you feel bad like a poop. It doesn't literally mean you have a feeling of a poop.

And in your example, if I put on Astronaut suit, I find it perfectly make sense to say "hey look, I feel like an Astronaut now". And I may even play around acting like I'm an Astronaut with that feeling in mind. But this shouldn't reduce Astronaut to just exterior suit. It's just because an Astronaut suit belongs to an Astronaut and that's what people usually see, and we may just feel like that when wearing one, without even referring to what real Astronaut must feel like working everyday.

Sorry if I sounded pushy, but I just don't understand why we all can't come to the middle-ground to understand that "feel like <something>" doesn't mean anything, and we should just let it go. As you may see from the other thread, different people has different opinions, and maybe all woman think it the same way, which if so, then both man and woman both should just understand each other that "feel like <something>" means different for each of us and we shouldn't jump to any conclusion when someone says it.

And I must ask again, how does "woman" exactly define? To be fair, I'll ask, how does "man" exactly define as well? IMO, woman and man definition seems to be referring to physical body. If you have breasts, vagina, you are a woman. If you have penis, you are a man. This is regardless of how one identify themselves inside their own mind. And that's why TS want to change their body to match their mind to actually be "woman", right?
And if so, isn't the reality that "woman" and "man" are just exterior thing? Are we stretching it too far to say "woman" and "man" to have deeper meaning with how one has past experiences?
For example, if somehow I got magically transformed into a woman body, I will say "I feel like a woman outside", but "I still feel like a man inside, because I had lived as a male". But I may just say "I feel like a woman because I have woman body now", which I meant "I feel like a woman outside", not implying anything with inner mind at all.

PS. I'm not saying the woman or man's worth is in the exterior body only. I'm just saying it seems to be how we define it IMO. I have an awesome SO who I love so much for being strong for me when I'm down, or take care of me for stuff, enjoy playing games together/watching movies, etc. I love her for who she is, not because of being a woman. We also enjoy our physical attraction to each other, so there's exterior worth too, sexually. I respect all human being who shows their worth through their actions, regardless of gender/race/ages. If a kid can show me he/she is strong, then I'll think he/she is strong. If my considered best friend does something stupid to me, then I'll think less of him/her too.
Sorry if it may sound like an excuse to make me look better. I just want to say the "feel like a woman" is really separate from "woman's worth", at least for me. I understand to the certain point how woman feels from what I talked to my SO every day, and I'm still learning.

- Bonnie