This is something that I think about a lot, for obvious reasons. And my conclusion is, I have NO idea what being female "feels like."

It's so interesting, because I'm trying to think why I feel that way, and I'm not coming up with anything that explains it.

Heh. That's me. Once I tried to think about what female "feels like," I came up with....nothing. "Feminine," yes.

Fooking bizarre.

I think riding boots are sort of classic, Jesse, aren't they?

You want to know what's pretty funny on a Tuesday morning? A bunch of Texans/Louisianian gathered around weather.com trying to figure out what those new colors on the radar map mean. Green, dark green, yellow even-we got. Blue and pink? No clue. Is the front expecting?

There seems to have been a furry convention in Addison this weekend

Interestingly, we just had a conversation about furries last night. With a friend's co-worker who had just moved from Texas. He was very confused. Then, somehow, we moved on to BDSM because BFF's neighbor has a BDSM flag. Quote of the night came from BFF's DH regarding said flag "I don't care if you're into BDSM or whatever, I care about bad graphic design!" (for reference, the flaq in question [link]

Cool house though, but the owner is surely making a fortune from dock fees. I think I would have a big privacy issue. Still looking.

This could be a temporary issue. You're only required to honor the contracts until their expiration, so you would probably only deal with it for a year at most. You should ask the owner about it. You could even keep the dock fees, but add restrictions on access.

That's a good distinction to make, I think. I do feel very female when I'm dressed as I usually am (jeans, sweaters, boots) but there is a difference in how feminine I feel when I've got on nail polish or I'm wearing a dress.

I see the distinction but it doesn't quite work for me. I think because when I think "feminine" I go to a frills and ruffles and Laura Ashley patterns (which is my own cultural baggage showing through).

That's why I was trying to draw the distinction between being and performing.

But to me, then, performing female includes things like doing krav and driving NASCAR and lactating. And so is pretty useless. Feminine is much easier to both use as a signal and to emulate.

I don't know what feeling female feels like, but that's because gender dysmorphia totally boggles me. I cannot imagine how it would feel wrong to be my gender. I'm that solidly, entitledly, cis. I just know that everything I do is female, no matter how few other women may do it. Because I am female, and that's all that matters.

I got my first outfit reaction. A lady with whom I have coffee-room acquaintance had a squee explosion over my dress. "It's a Lucy dress! I love Lucy dresses! And it has petticoats! Let me see the sleeves! Oh, I love it! I didn't know anyone but me loved these dresses! Oh!" She was hard core.

I just got off the phone with my boss, who's been working from home since she broke her ankle Christmas weekend. I called her to talk about a meeting this afternoon, and she spent most of the call telling her dog to calm down. The dogwalker phones before they come over to walk Shadow, so now, every time the phone rings, Shadow thinks it's the walker and gets hyper. By the time we were done talking, I could hear barking in the background. I was laughing when I hung up the phone.

This is something that I think about a lot, for obvious reasons. And my conclusion is, I have NO idea what being female "feels like."

I'm the same way - I have never "felt like a man", if that makes any sense. I mean, when I date a woman I can take the initiative and ask her out, decide what to do on the date and everything, but it feels like I'm playing the male role in this. I think deep inside I'm androgynous.

I care about bad graphic design!

I hate that flag.

I don't know what feeling female feels like, but that's because gender dysmorphia totally boggles me. I cannot imagine how it would feel wrong to be my gender. I'm that solidly, entitledly, cis.

This is me. I am totally supportive of my friends who are trans* (again, obvs.), but I've never felt wrong in my gender, so I can't get my brain around it.

then, performing female includes things like doing krav and driving NASCAR and lactating

All at the same time!

Sorry, I just love that lactating is in there.