Poll: Have you ever been mistaken for the opposite gender?

[HentMas]

yah, once when i was like 15, my hair was lengthy enough, to the shoulders if i recall correctly, i was picking up a girlfriend in her school, i was also wearing a black sleeveless shirt with white Japanese characters in the side, which was ripping in the neck (making it look like some kind of cleavage) and a pair of dark glasses the "guard" looked in, saw me and said "go right ahead miss" (in Spanish he said "pase señora") i just kept driving, didn´t even understood what he said at the start but after i realized what he told me i just couldn't stop laughing, my girl came in and asked, after i explained her she... well, thats a story for another day folks!

 

[endless_revan]

When I was sixteen I was re-entering the US from a trip to the UK and a customs officer called me ma'am. I did have long hair but I also had a full beard. So this guy can't have been paying much attention.

 

[Dratis]

I've always had very long hair and a rather skinny build so that makes it easy for people to think I'm a woman from behind. I think once someone called me a woman to my face accidentally. my name is Jami which most people automatically think female when they see that name. Finally I work in a call center and at least once a day one of the people who call in call me Ma'am.

 

[kickyourass]

Well a few times over the phone, but that was pre-puberty so it's forgivable. Recently however it happened twice within the same hour.
I was trying to grow my hair out longer and I was at home depot with my mother and a guy mistook me for a girl. But it was understandable, he couldn't see my face and my build doesn't exactly scream "MANLY." But then it happened in a restaurant with a waitress that was looking RIGHT AT ME, I have facial hair (Granted wasn't much at the time, but still) how does that happen?

 

[intheweeds]

I am an androgynous looking lesbian. This happens to me everytime i am foolish enough to venture out of doors. It would take all day to give examples and i still would have to continue in the morning. *sigh about society*

I guess the worst is the two times i have been assaulted in a public bathroom. I seriously refuse to enter a public washroom anymore. Usually I just have to explain to angry idiotic women that i have been alive for 32 years and know exactly what is between my legs, but that is frankly bad enough. I am not the worlds educator. All I want to do is take a piss! Leave me alone!

Crazy women everywhere: Seriously. when is the last time you EVER saw a male in a women's washroom outside of a stupid frat boy movie? It doesn't happen. If someone is casually washing they're hands, chances are they aren't up to no good and don't need to be harrassed and/or physically assaulted. Besides, if you are so 'scared', why is your first instinct to come towards me?

whew!

/rant

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Yep, damn you professor oak.

OT: I have a rather scruffy beard most of the time. I also, despite being rather skinny, have decently broad shoulders (or they at least look that way) and a rather deep voice. Guess which poll option I choose.

Not that I wouldn't mind being able to pass as the opposite gender. The sort of mischief I could get up to if I did...

 

[Shock and Awe]

Never in person, though when I was younger some people thought I was a girl on the phone.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

I've always had very long hair and a rather skinny build so that makes it easy for people to think I'm a woman from behind.

i used to get that, but my shoulders broadened and i cut my hair shorter last year.

 

[HentMas]

Back when I had shorter hair, people who saw me from behind would sometimes call me "sir". It was really annoying.

If you like girls telling you "you look cute" its fine, but i´m 25 years old and its getting annoying XD

WOOPS! wrong quote... who was i quoting!?

 

[Armanox15]

Many, many times. About an year ago My hair was covering almost half of my back all the time. Once I entered the mans restroom and there was this man which could take his eyes of me for about a minute and at the end told that this wasn't the womens restroom and was like "You see my mustache???". Funny thing was I didn't have much of a mustache. Another time was when I was waiting in line for a waterslide and I heard these two girls talking about how I was wearing mans swimsuit.

 

[Rzepik]

Well, I have very thick, healthy, long hair.
When I was a kid it happened to me all the time.

 

[otakon17]

When I was much younger as a baby and in a photo of me when I was 10 and looked remarkably like my mother in a photo taken when she was 11.

 

[McMullen]

Got hit on by a guy who saw me in a car in dim light. He noticed my beard right after though, and the look on his face was priceless.

 

[Xerxesrogue]

I have long hair, thus I am mistaken for a girl every now and then.
Remember a particular incident, where I was standing in a queue to get some food, or something along those lines. However a girl (knowing who I am) decided to mess with this other douche, leading his hand onto my ass. He of course seeing me from behind suspected nothing and thought nothing particularly of it.
I will never forget the weird, insecure look on his face when I turned around...

 

[Kroxile]

I used to have shoulder length blonde hair (it was a phase, lol) and my hair is normally short and naturally dark brown and one day I was walking down the road and some spanish lady called me a gringa. Being aware that this is a derogative term I turned to face her and she seemed shocked and went about her business.

 

[Uncle_Brainhorn]

Some Indian woman on tech support thought I was a woman. Dunno if that counts.

 

[Clarkarius]

In jest sure, but seriously it has never happened.

Ok without being offensive in use of the term 'chavs' (which for people outside the UK is an expanded colloquial term for anti-social teenagers), I've received a fair few insults from 'chavs' regarding my long hair, hair colour, fashion (apparently I'm a metal head so use your imagination), music preferences etc.

In such circumstances I've been called a girl among many other things but yeah its not a serious mistake just some small minds trying to inflate an ego.

 

[Prince Regent]

When I was younger, I was quite often mistaken for my mother on the phone.
I've been mistaken for a girl with letters/emails too. Guess it's mostly my parents faul, as my name is quite unkown and people often don't know if its male or female.

 

[nobodysoldier25]

I'm a man and am often mistaken for a woman on the phone, but never in real life.