I Haz Gender Issues?

[oselle]

I dreamt -- vividly -- that I'd grown a dick. Not that I became a man, I was still myself but...with a dick. And a very impressive member it was too, if I dare say so myself.

Now, in the dream I knew (the way you know things in dreams) that this was a temporary situation and so all I wanted to do was go out and have sex with my new dick so that I could write slash. That was all I could think about. That I would be able to write the most convincing slash evah! because out of all the other chicks writing slash, only I would know what it was really like to get a blow job or to fuck someone or to get fucked while actually possessing a prostate gland. Right? Right!?

And you know, I think I have a whole new understanding of men since this dream, and why they always have sex on the brain. Because when you actually have a dick? It's just hanging there. It's always there. It's in the way. You can't stop thinking about it because it's just there. It's got a mind of its own and it's THERE.

Yes. It is very distracting, having a dick. It's a wonder men manage to do anything at all.

Comments

[pensive]

That is an amazingly insightful dream. I had a vaguely similar one a while back, and all I could think about was "omg I get to experience sex as a MAN now"

[oselle.livejournal.com]

What was funny was that it wasn't the sex itself that was important so much as the potential of all the explicitly vivid slash I'd be able to write as a result of it.

[sixth-queen.livejournal.com]

I read about some psych study, where a therapist asked a mixed group of men and women to visualize changing sexes: the women pretended to be men having sex with a woman and vice versa. The women had a great time with it, feeling "so tall" and powerful. The men in the group either wouldn't talk about it, or refused the visualization altogether.

Let's face it, we women are just fucked, in every way possible (the passive voice is SO correct here!)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Wow--that's pretty fascinating!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this is part of the reason women enjoy slash so much. It sort of gives a chance to roleplay at being men. And why wouldn't we want to do that?

I've read that when men undergo sex change operations, one of the things they have to discuss in the pre-op counseling is whether or not they're really ready to give up their male status. That's the one thing I've never understood about transgender men. Regardless of what their biology is telling them, I'd think that all the profound advantages of being a man would be awfully hard to sacrifice.

[sixth-queen.livejournal.com]

I never quite understood why there are so many men who want to be women or dress like them, and so few women who want to be men. What, are these men NUTS?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Speaking with no scientific knowledge whatsoever, I think that men are biologically pre-disposed to be more gender confused than women. I read somewhere once that all fetuses basically start out as female and then they either just keep on developing that way or the Y chromosome kicks in and the fetus turns into a boy. Don't know if that's true or not, but however you look at it all men still have that X chromosome in them which, very simplistically put, makes them all...half a chick. There has to be a biological reason for so many men to want to be women because God knows there is absolutely no other rational motivation for anyone to choose this.

[plaidpjs.livejournal.com]

When do men every manage to do anything?


Seriously, this really is insightful. I'd never thought about just how it must be rather hard to ignore because it's just there, well put...or said!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

In all honesty that was one of the really remarkable things about the dream. I mean of course the whole thing was a novelty for me but considering the way real men seem to feel about their dicks, I get the impression that it's something of a novelty for them too, every single day.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I'm almost surprised more slashers don't have this dream. Your subconscious is very practical!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

But not practical enough to get down to business before I woke up. Which is probably a good thing, though I was rather looking forward to the blow job considering all the fuss about them.

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

I think there is a hidden desire you have. No, no. I'm not talking about having a dick. :D

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's terribly well hidden.

*cough*