Thought Experiment - social gender reversal

Thought Experiment:

What if "men" were physically female, and "women" were physically male?

The "men", being female, would be the ones who got pregnant, but the male "women" would be the ones who spent more time with the children after their birth. The male women (the mothers) would be seen as the more nurturing parent.
Female fathers and male mothers.

The heterosexual female men would be sexually attracted to the women's flat chests and nipples - those would be considered sexy and a major turn on, whereas the men's breasts would be considered plain/utilitarian. The women's dicks and balls would also be considered sexy and a turn on for the men.

It would be considered nudity to display a woman's bare (often hairy) flat chest,
but it wouldn't be considered nudity for men to go topless and to display their breasts.

The accepted fashion for the male women would include colorful flowery dresses, skirts, jewelry and make-up. The women could also choose to wear pants and t-shirts, or most any other item.

The accepted fashion for the female men would include pants, suits and ties, shorts and t-shirts. Men's fashion choices would be much more limited than the women's, and any overstepping of the fashion rules would be met by ridicule, shock, hostility, and/or suspicion of homosexuality. However, most men wouldn't even think of overstepping the rules, due to how well those rules had been impressed upon them as they were growing up. They've been taught to think that they would look silly, ugly, or not "manly" in women's clothing.

The female men might have a higher sex drive in general than the women, and there would be a lot of sexually suggestive entertainment and porn produced which was geared towards the females.
There would be cultural/social expectations for the male women to remain chaste and to not have a lot of sexual partners. It would be more socially acceptable and expected for the female men to sleep around, than the male women.

The female men would be seen as strong and tough, even though they are on average physically smaller than the other sex. Culturally, it seems natural for them to be the ones who get pregnant and go through the hardships of childbirth, since they are the stronger sex.
The male women would be seen as physically and emotionally weaker, as well as more social and chatty.

The female men would tend to be more aggressive than the male women, and in groups, these men would tend to be loud and boasting. There would be stereotypes that the female men loved sports, hunting, drinking beer, and sex. There would be other stereotypes that the female men were more likely to be geeky and into computers and video games, than the male women.

The main characters of most movies would be female, and it would be relatively rare to have more than single male character in a movie, and even then the males' main role would be sexual and/or as a crime victim for the female to "save".

There would be stereotypes that the male women tend to care about fashion, romance, and touchy-feely type stuff. There would be stereotypes of them being sly, deceptive, and manipulative, as well as stereotypes of them being less intelligent than the females.

Some of the stereotypes might even supposedly be based on measurable average differences between the sexes.

In the past, many of the male women would have been stay-at-home moms, although nowadays most of them are in the workplace, even though they don't earn on average as much as the men.

The male women would be more likely to be victims of domestic violence.
The male women would have a high likelihood of being sexually assaulted during their lifetimes, yet society would often blame them for the assaults, while the female perpetrators would rarely be prosecuted or convicted.

There would be female gay men who were attracted to other females.
There would be male lesbian women who were attracted to other males.
There would be transgendered people who were born physically male, but felt more like a man than a woman.
There would be transgendered people who were born physically female, but felt more like a woman than a man.
These groups would face a lot of hatred, intolerance, and discrimination from much of society.

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In a world/society like that, given your current sex, where would you feel you fit in, gender-wise?

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I think I would feel in-between, as I do in this world/society. I wouldn't particularly identify with either gender. I still would prefer to have a flat chest and not menstruate and all that... although in terms of getting surgery, the transition from being able to go topless in public to having to cover up would be a nuisance.

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Differences found in the brain's white matter in transsexuals
My first reaction was, oh cool, maybe I could get a scan done which would prove to others than I really am an androgyne.
Yet my own being is already proof of that, and the results of such a scan, positive or negative, would not negate the proof of my own being. It would still be cool, though.



link via andrewducker.

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Interesting article (long, but informative) about the birth control pill, the history of menstruation, and increased cancer risks due to the greater number of menses that modern women have during their lifetimes.


Dogon women menstruate about a hundred times in their lives. (Those who survive early childhood typically live into their seventh or eighth decade.) By contrast, the average for contemporary Western women is somewhere between three hundred and fifty and four hundred times.
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the basic pattern of late menarche, many pregnancies, and long menstrual-free stretches caused by intensive breast-feeding was virtually universal up until the "demographic transition" of a hundred years ago from high to low fertility. In other words, what we think of as normal--frequent menses--is in evolutionary terms abnormal.
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for most women, [], incessant ovulation serves no purpose except to increase the occurence of abdominal pain, mood shifts, migraines, endometriosis, fibroids, and anemia. ... Most serious of all is the greatly increased risk of some cancers.


link via montyollie