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If you could change gender, would you?

ha!

read some john varley! great sci-fi author, especially his short stories set in his "eight worlds" universe.

he postulates a future where it's easy to modify your body, like with a prehensile tail, extra limbs, even grow a cloned body of the opposite sex and plop your brain into it, presto you're switched!

he uses this idea to explore what it means to be gay or straight when all sexual taboos have long since fallen away and you can make your body into anything you want.
 
I'd change to a female , but just for a day, just to see what it's like to be always right.:), i mean, to see what it's like to THINK I'm always right.


I worked with someone who went from a Wayne to a Ramona, and had another colleague in the same building that went from Colin to Claire.

As hard as we all tried to be PC and understanding and all that, and sympathised with what they must have gone through, it was hard to look at the same face and see them as women.
 
Zombie gender reassignment thread!
I hear that's the name of the new Walking Dead spinoff.
Oh, and they're headlining at The Wiltern this Saturday.


As far as the OP, when I was younger, yes I'd have liked to experience it for a short while. Not at my age though. An aging woman has it a LOT harder than an aging man.
 
Can't say I haven't thought about what it would be like to be a woman. It might be a good thing to try it for a brief time but I am happy with who I am.
I have always been a little jealous about the way women communicate. They seem to be able to share their emotions and feelings better than us guys. Maybe a woman could comment on this but it seems like women have an easier time getting close to each other than men do. I am one of those guys that make people uncomfortable and have had to learn to keep some things to myself.