Weird question: Has anyone here ever...

[emily_in_nc]

Never. But when we were kids, my brother was often taken for a girl. He got the beautiful long eyelashes instead of me (grrrrrr), big blue eyes (again, grrrrr), and had longish hair. After he hit puberty and got tall and angular (and grew facial hair!) that never happened again.

I'm petite and curvy, so I guess that's why I've never been mistaken for a guy, even though I've had shortish hair most of my adult life (longer now), and I tend to dress fairly feminine, though not to the extreme. Wearing makeup helps.

Emily

[Bluetree]

Thanks for sharing, Gals. I'm glad I'm not alone out there.

I live in the land of The Beautiful People, where implants and surgery is so commonplace that it almost seems freakish to have an unusual body type. I guess my perspective is a little "off."

You gals are so wonderful, you make the world a much more sensible place! (((TE Gals)))

[doc]

In person I've never been mistaken for a guy, but I am ALWAYS called "sir" on the phone. I have a deep, but not-that-deep voice. Somehow the phone makes it a little lower and I am NEVER called Miss. It gets annoying, but hey, I assume no offense intended, so none taken.

[Pax]

In person I've never been mistaken for a guy, but I am ALWAYS called "sir" on the phone. I have a deep, but not-that-deep voice. Somehow the phone makes it a little lower and I am NEVER called Miss. It gets annoying, but hey, I assume no offense intended, so none taken.

It's weird, the older I get the deeper my voice seems to be. I tell myself it's not so much masculine as much as it's Kathleen Turner-esque.

[Kitsune06]

When I'm biking, people mistake me more for a dude. I've had a carfull of stupid teenage girls whistle and cheer etc while I'm sitting there at the light... then I looked over, said "Well Thanks, ladies- and I haven't even taken my jacket off yet!" They were floored I didn't *think* I looked so much like a guy on my bike, but... maybe I do?

People call me 'sir' occasionally. It happened more to my ex, who was 5'8 with squarer jaw and shoulders, but it did happen to me occasionally. Especially when I'm wearing the baggy cargos w/ crotch near my knees and baggy tees. I actually enjoyed xing for awhile but my voice *can not* cooperate.

Not. Amused.

[Bluetree]

I've had a carfull of stupid teenage girls whistle and cheer etc while I'm sitting there at the light... then I looked over, said "Well Thanks, ladies- and I haven't even taken my jacket off yet!"

LOL

[IFjane]

Blue - I've never been mistaken for a boy, but once years ago when I was all dressed up (well, as dressed up as tomboy me would get ) and had gone out to dinner, the wait person asked when I was due. I said, "due?" and she said, "yes, when are you going to have your baby".

Uh....I went on a diet the next day - right after the dinner and dessert digested!

[makbike]

Gosh it happens to be on a regular basis. I'm 5'2", muscular, small chest and short hair. I typically wear jeans, t-shirts, hoodies and a baseball cap. I don't wear make up or jewerly and I'm not the girly, frilly, pink type so I guess the mistake is an honest one. It does make my BF mad when it happens but I guess I've gotten so accustom to it the mistake really does not bother me anymore. I'm comfortable with who I am and that is all that counts.

[Kitsune06]

y'know...
before moving to the PNW I wore jeans and baseball caps much more often. Midwestern thing, you know. got it a lot more then. (and YES I know how to roll my bill- though bill-rollers will say I roll mine 'like a farmer'. it sheds the rain well but doesn't look as sporty. Yada yada)

[solobiker]

Well for me it used to happen when I was younger and in Jr HS. One time I walked into the girls locker room to change for gym class and a few girls screamed and said you don't belong in here, this is the girls locker room. Also when I was in 7th grade, a 12th grade boy threw me up against a locker and threatened to beat me up as he thought I was a boy that had given him a dirty look.

[Kitsune06]

Yup. That's happened to me. ...hmm. It's happened that bigger, burly women have thrown me up against lockers (and crammed me into them...)

I had too much fun with it. We had a 'switch day' in HS during that week before homecoming when everyone comes up with weird stuff to do (guess who did that. HAHAHAHA Student Council could be fun...) so I went online and bought a theater goatee (trimmed so it was a little thinner and finer- highschoolish), latex adhesive, etc.
That and baseball cap, head down, shaved-short blue hair poking out around baseball cap, baggy jeans packin' etc, I looked the part. Walking a friend home, I had *an acquaintence* say "HEY (friend I was walking with) WHO'S YOUR BF?! HE'S CUTE!!!!" So we walk over. she was it was hilarious. I make a very cute, sorta fae looking boy, apparently.

[Mr. Bloom]

people call me "sir" all the time...

[eofelis]

One day I was out on a road ride, climbing some switchbacks in the Colorado National Monument. An SUV went by and a teenager leaned out the window and yelled "Nice a** sir!!!"

I guess he didn't see the long braid hanging down my back.

[KnottedYet]

I've been called "son" or "sir" my whole life. And I'm 39 now.

I don't get it. I am a VERY curvy girl: biiiiig hips, tiny waist, broad shoulders and I'm not flat-chested. Oh no, not flat chested! I don't wear men's clothes very often, I always wear obvious earrings. Since getting my nose pierced it's only happened a couple times. I have a "girly" nose pierce.

Once it happend when I was wearing a pale lavendar t-shirt, huge purple earrings, and had SKnot yanking on my arm shouting "mommy mommy, I want a candy bar, mommy mommy mommy!"

Maybe it's because I'm 5'8" and stand tall. Maybe I give off "Butch Vibes". It's a mystery to me.

[mary9761]

around 10 years or so ago I had a child come up to me, I had short hair and evidently had a BAD bra on or something as this child asked me to my face, are you a lady or a man? I took one look at my chest and shook my head. I know I am/was heavy but they must have thought I had really HUGE man boobs is all I can say.