Poll: Have you ever been mistaken for the opposite gender?
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Ha! Yes, ever since I was a kid.
On my first day teaching an Algebra class, my students made a sign for the door that said "Algebra I: MR teacher". Once when I was buying bras, I went to the fitting room clerk to get a room unlocked and she walked straight to the door marked "Gentlemen" and opened it up for me. I studied abroad in Japan for a semester and frequently had groups of three or so high-school girls whispering about me on the train and sneaking glances my way. Or else straight up talking about me, thinking I couldn't understand Japanese. (Enlightening them was often quite entertaining.) One Japanese guy asked me whether I was a boy or a girl before he started hitting on me. My family went to the dentist here in the States and the nurse asked my teenage sister if I was her boyfriend. (When she finished with the tooth scraping, my sister pointed out her mistake. We laughed about it in the car afterwards.)
I'm very active, and I like my hair short and my jeans not too fitted. Usually, I laugh when I get mistaken, and (with the exception of a Russian lady and an old man in a bookstore, and maybe the Japanese guy) everyone who talks to me for more than two seconds knows I'm a girl.
On my first day teaching an Algebra class, my students made a sign for the door that said "Algebra I: MR teacher". Once when I was buying bras, I went to the fitting room clerk to get a room unlocked and she walked straight to the door marked "Gentlemen" and opened it up for me. I studied abroad in Japan for a semester and frequently had groups of three or so high-school girls whispering about me on the train and sneaking glances my way. Or else straight up talking about me, thinking I couldn't understand Japanese. (Enlightening them was often quite entertaining.) One Japanese guy asked me whether I was a boy or a girl before he started hitting on me. My family went to the dentist here in the States and the nurse asked my teenage sister if I was her boyfriend. (When she finished with the tooth scraping, my sister pointed out her mistake. We laughed about it in the car afterwards.)
I'm very active, and I like my hair short and my jeans not too fitted. Usually, I laugh when I get mistaken, and (with the exception of a Russian lady and an old man in a bookstore, and maybe the Japanese guy) everyone who talks to me for more than two seconds knows I'm a girl.
Before I had facial hair it happened all the time. I've always had long hair compared to most males, and I've always been quite thin. I guess the natural assumption was that boys can't have long hair, but at this point I have a full on goatee and enough arm hair that it can be seen from across the room, I don't much think anyone assumes I'm a girl these days.
One time I was at work and a little boy comes up to me and says something like Hi fella/boy! Obviously I assumed he wasn't speaking to me and ignored him, he said it a few more times, his mum came over and said "no sweetheart, that's a lady."
I just laughed and told her I did look rough that day. Not sure how many men have E cup boobs though haha. (oh the mental images...)
I just laughed and told her I did look rough that day. Not sure how many men have E cup boobs though haha. (oh the mental images...)
Nope. My boobs are way too big to ever have it be possible to be mistaken for a man. I'm just going to be perfectly honest about that. I'm also only 5 feet tall, so I would be a crazy short dude.
I have quite a deep voice, and manly proportions (manly I say!), so no-one has ever called me a girl.
I have been mistaken for my father though (is that a good thing?)
I have been mistaken for my father though (is that a good thing?)
When I was 4 years old in primary school, I recall someone mistaking me for a girl on account of my curly hair, for some reason.
No but back when I was working in a primary school as a TA whilst dealing with six year old's, I used to get called Miss all the time rather annoyingly. Of course it's not really their fault since all they've even known is female teachers and so cries of "Miss!" when they need help have been pretty much ingrained in them. I used to correct them a few times and tell them to call me Sir, and then ignore them if they didn't do so until they got it right, took me about two weeks but eventually I got the whole class referring to me in the proper way, yeah the other staff had a good laugh when I told them in the staff room, and incidentally so did my family too, I didn't mind though it was all good fun.
As a guy I was often.. "mistaken", if you could call it that. My vocal range(I can pull off pitch-perfect Lance Henriksen AND Claudia Black voices, among others) could be either a help or a hindrance during those situations. Combine that with proportions that weren't very definitive... well, you get the point. Seems I was almost purpose-built for my current path.
Nope, and it would be weird if I was. I have a military crew cut (ie, REALLY short hair), and am pretty tall at 6' 2". My voice kind of high pitch, but still low enough that you can tell its a guys voice. However, the biggest thing would be my body build. I don't know if I just have big bones, or if I am stronger than I think, or if I am just naturally a big dude. What I do know is my arms are big, my legs are even bigger, and my torso resembles a tank.
Im pretty androgynous, so yeah all the time.
It doesn't come to a surprise though, in fact it feels more like a compliment when my gender is mistaken. I'm odd.
It doesn't come to a surprise though, in fact it feels more like a compliment when my gender is mistaken. I'm odd.
I laugh at all you tiny girly men. No one mistakes me for anything execpt for what I am, a big strong man...
In a small underweight boys body.
In a small underweight boys body.
Back in early highschool when I had long hair and a high voice. I grew into a more masculine body and started cutting my hair short after high school, so not since then.