Called "Sir"... Why, oh WHY?!?!

[DebW]

The last couple years I've had young boys asking me if I was a boy or a girl. I think the 3 year old was keying off my unshaved legs, and the 7 year old is at "that age" (he keeps asking me if I wear a bra - I don't). I did freak someone out in the restroom at a movie theater once last year while standing around in my bike helmet. I always wear men's pants or shorts and unisex shirts and have fairly short hair.

Actually, I wish I would have been mistaken for a boy on the phone in the 70s. Instead, when I answered the phone in the bike shop, people would ask to speak to a mechanic (arg!!!, as if a woman can't be a mechanic). That used to really drive me nuts. Now people are generally please to see a woman mechanic in a shop. Though one elderly man a couple months ago ask the manager if I was his wife (as if that's the only reason a woman would work in a shop). The manager handled it well by replying that I was an experienced mechanic.

[OakLeaf]

What's your Q-angle?

I'm sitting here right now at the intermission of a Steve Earle concert. When his guitar player walked onstage with his male pattern baldness, masculine jaw, hint of facial hair and thick wrists, my lizard brain still said "woman." With this thread fresh in my mind, it didn't take me long to figure out that his hips were the reason.

[KnottedYet]

What's your Q-angle?

I'm sitting here right now at the intermission of a Steve Earle concert. When his guitar player walked onstage with his male pattern baldness, masculine jaw, hint of facial hair and thick wrists, my lizard brain still said "woman." With this thread fresh in my mind, it didn't take me long to figure out that his hips were the reason.

I've got an extreme q-angle.

Profoundly hour-glass curves.

Big bazoongas.

Dainty tiny (very tiny) wrists and ankles.

Always dressed "girly", always in at least a little make-up, feminine bobbed hair which is always done up in some way.

But ever since I was a teenager, I get mistaken for a man. Like I said earlier, it has happened even when wearing a camisole and miniskirt.

I just don't know.

[emily_in_nc]

It sounds like maybe it's your height more than anything else.

I'm 5'2" and have never been called "sir", even when dressed extremely unisex and right after a haircut.

That must suck, though.

[salsabike]

I bet the height thing is it.

You have the best cheekbones around, girl.

[Trek420]

You have the best cheekbones around, girl.

She sure does, doesn't she?