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I Want To Swap Boddies With The Opposite Gender

I've had a conversation along these lines with a group of friends before. Even before I realized I was gender-fluid. I would actually love to be able to be a woman for a month or two. I'd like to experience things from a woman's perspective. My female friends can tell me about micro-aggressions ("Smile, baby" or being followed or simply being openly and wantonly eyed up while walking or a million other things), for example, until they're blue in the face. On some level, I can even understand it. But to truly empathize, I think experiencing it would be helpful.

Similarly, during that conversation all those years ago, I picked that length of time on purpose. I'd have to deal with a period or two that way. Again, women can tell me what cramps feel like and such, but I just can't relate no matter how hard I try.

There are a million things, some big and some small, that women and men just experience differently. I'd love to get a better understanding of them, to empathize better with female friends and family.
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silkandlace · 46-50, M
Ive Always wondered what it would be like!
LookingForIt987 · 51-55, M
@silkandlace Right? Like I said, there's a million things - some pretty bad, even. Like, I have no real concept of what it really feels like to be afraid to walk down the street alone at night. I'd like to know, for as many of those little (and big) things as possible. I like to think I'm a caring person, but there are just some things I can't empathize with. Not completely, anyway.
silkandlace · 46-50, M
@LookingForIt987 right, tbh though, my leaving the house would probably be limited till i was used to it a bit, assuming you mean we'd be in a woman's body while still retaining our own intellect of course
LookingForIt987 · 51-55, M
@silkandlace Yeah, I'd like to remain aware. (I don't think you really meant "own intellect" so much as "own self-awareness"). Barring that, I would certainly like to retain what I learned when "switching" back. Otherwise it sort of defeats the purpose.

Also, there's the weirdness of what other people do and don't know. Do they know I've changed, for example? Or as part of this exercise, do they think I've always been a woman while I'm switched? 🤷‍♂️
silkandlace · 46-50, M
@LookingForIt987 yes, I've pondered that part too
silkandlace · 46-50, M
@LookingForIt987 very honestly, my first curiosity woul be the Period