Ladies, are there "guy" things that you like/enjoy?

[Emher]

I love the androgynous look. I don't think I could ever pull it off though. My glass is unmistakably hour.

Okay, really trying to not quite this entire post and commenting all my infatuations with you, but I have to on this: I have met few women who can pull of wearing dresses like you do. Be proud of your figure. (Yeah, I know you are, but I'm saying it still).

Also regarding lady guns, back in the day when I was playing soldier with airsoft guns (it was a phase, mkay?), there was this guy who had the hot pink Hello Kitty decorated M16, complete with pink camo bandana around his neck. Great guy, but what put him into legendary territory for me was his continued playful hitting on EVERYONE. It was hilarious seeing all the "macho men" squirm

I don't remember this, but my mother told me that when I was 8 I asked her if it was okay for me to have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles birthday party. I didn't know if it would be alright, because TMNT were for boys. So add TMNT to the list!

That's because TMNT are awesome, and awesome transcends gender.

Slight sidenote, it's fun to see what you realize about your childhood favorites. Back in the day Leonardo was my favorite, 'cause he had swords. Nowadays it's easily Raphael.

I really loved Lego, too. I wasn't aware of the fact that Lego is for boys?

Honestly, I never ever thought it as a boys toy, neither did my sis. The insane stuff we built together...good times!

 

[sojourner]

This thread reminds me of this great commercial from the superbowl:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPzQaEENGes[/yt]

 

[USS Triumphant]

But probably not. I'll be quiet now.

Ah, the most insightful thing you've posted here.

Just one more, then: THHHHHHHHHPPPPPPPPTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tora Ziyal]

 

[Kestra]

I keep wanting to post in this thread but then I think of all the times someone said "what are you, a guy?" and "girls don't like _____" and it makes me mad.

I'll personally scratch and bite any guy who comes here to give you a hard time, I promise!

Tell us about the stuff you love!

Haha okay.

I'm actually fairly girly and always have been in a lot of ways. I love pink, pretty, frilly, feminine things. A lot of people have talked about Lego in this thread and I never thought of it as a boy's toy, but then again I had some legos that also had pink in them. I played with action figures as much as girly dolls, I played neighborhood soccer growing up and I enjoy watching hockey now. I enjoy the odd video game here and there, and used to play WoW. I was a big fan of cartoons like Batman and TMNT over something like My Little Pony.

There's other stuff that's harder to describe but my friends always felt like I was more of the "guy" in my relationship. I am not huge on cuddling and hugs and stuff like that. I like action movies and Die Hard is my favorite (along with Pride and Prejudice). I enjoy science, particularly biology, immensely.

I grew up in a household that wasn't that big on gender stereotypes. My dad has always been the one to do more of the cooking but my mom always did the grilling. They both worked full-time and my siblings and I mixed all our toys together so Barbies fought alongside GIJoe. My father is very artistic and my mother is not at all, so I learned a lot of my "softer" skills from my father.

But yeah overall I'd say I'm more of a girly girl than not, and I'm totally okay with that.

 

[mari]

I'm the oldest of three girls. It never occurred to us or to our parents that toys were limited to one gender or another. We had trains, Matchbox cars (and I had model cars - got my first Porsche for my 7th birthday, by request), tons and tons of Legos (although someone did buy us the pastel MegaBlocks), a chemistry set and an electronic circuit board thingie... and a ton of Barbies, all of whom were decapitated at one point or another. I tried to trade Barbie and Ken's limbs, too, but they didn't fit right. My Cabbage Patch kid was a boy. Dad taught all three of us how to play basketball and baseball, and in middle school I could throw a football better than any of the boys and also regularly kicked their butts at floor hockey. My favorite cartoons as a kid included TMNT, He-Man and Thundercats. I owned My Little Ponies, but I didn't care for the cartoon back then. FIM is awesome, though.

These days, I like Star Trek and science stuff and computer programming (well, that's since I was 6 or so), I know how to maintain my car and use my jumper cables, I can do basic electric and plumbing, and I own more tools than my husband. I also crochet and I'm an awesome cook, and I plan on passing it all down to my son. I'm not the least bit interested in sports, but my husband is even less interested, so that works out well. We're happy nerds. As for clothes shopping, I can live without it, and I'm happiest in jeans, a t-shirt and flip-flops. I do like to paint my nails, though. It's like an art project. That lasts about five minutes before I destroy it because I have to fix some broken thing in the house.

 

[thestrangequark]

My Cabbage Patch kid was a boy.

Mine too! Marlin Rudolph was his name! I won him in a Cabbage Patch Kid lookalike contest when I was 2. Apparently they tried to give me a girl with long blonde hair. The poor man who gave me the doll was rather upset, because I started crying and hitting myself in the head. Really I was trying to sign the word 'boy.' My mom interpreted for me, told them I wanted a bald baby boy, and they gave me Marlin. I loved that doll, and my mom uses him now as a head model for crocheting newborn baby bonnets.

 

[Pondwater]

My Cabbage Patch kid was a boy.

Mine too!

Same here.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I had boys and girls in my Cabbage Patch collection. The first boy I had was Brian Selby. But the first doll I had was a girl... Selma Paige.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I never played with dolls, as in I loathed them from when I was two years old. Now I wonder why LOLOL.. but I did play with bears, the Steiff small ones, and other animals that I built doll houses for and camps outside and well, everything.

 

[{ Emilia }]

I'm actually fairly girly and always have been in a lot of ways. I love pink, pretty, frilly, feminine things. A lot of people have talked about Lego in this thread and I never thought of it as a boy's toy, but then again I had some legos that also had pink in them. I played with action figures as much as girly dolls, I played neighborhood soccer growing up and I enjoy watching hockey now. I enjoy the odd video game here and there, and used to play WoW.

You just described my childhood.
Talking about MMOs, though... I started playing MMOs (Everquest 2) back when everybody still thought that everybody online must be male. You know how most MMOs have the holy class trinity of tank, healer and damage dealers? For some reason the attitude often was that the few girls that are around always play healers. I remember when I joined a raid guild on my badass (*giggle*) brigand (a damage class) some guy told me: "You can't be a girl, you're doing way too much damage." (GIRLS DON'T DPS!)
I had to talk to them on teamspeak for them to actually believe it.
How silly is that?

There's other stuff that's harder to describe but my friends always felt like I was more of the "guy" in my relationship. I am not huge on cuddling and hugs and stuff like that. I like action movies and Die Hard is my favorite (along with Pride and Prejudice). I enjoy science, particularly biology, immensely.

My movie taste is all over the place. I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to movies but I don't think I could limit myself to certain genres either. What I really can't stand is superhero movies but I think that's not that uncommon for people here in Europe.

I grew up in a household that wasn't that big on gender stereotypes. My dad has always been the one to do more of the cooking but my mom always did the grilling. They both worked full-time and my siblings and I mixed all our toys together so Barbies fought alongside GIJoe.

Same here. That's why I really struggle to come up with things that are more "boy-things" to me. Somebody in this thread mentioned Science Fiction. And while it's true that at least on the side of the creators SciFi is still very much a male-dominated affair I just never considered it to be "for boys".

But yeah overall I'd say I'm more of a girly girl than not, and I'm totally okay with that.

 

[RJDiogenes]

In the original guys' thread, women didn't start posting until the 15th message.

I'm fighting segregation. We shall overcome.

I think there are differences in the sexes. Women are prone to be more sensitive, to listen more, to express emotions more than men.

I completely disagree. Gender roles and stereotypes are simply cultural expectations that people are bullied and brainwashed into following. There are two aspects to every person: Their humanity and their individuality. That's all there is to it.

I'm surprised that we've gotten this far down in the thread without the obvious answer:
Star Trek.

Is Star Trek considered male? The original, I mean. I seem to remember there always being a large female fanbase. (On the nuTrek DVD commentary, one of the writers comments that they were trying to figure out how to make Trek appealing to girls. They asked their wives. They decided that they would show a baby being born in the opening sequence. Yes, this is the 21st century.)

My parents kept buying me dolls and couldn't figure out where my barbies disappeared to. I buried them in hopes of excavating 11" skeletons in the future but all I got were moldy barbies.

That's fantastic.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Is Star Trek considered male? The original, I mean. I seem to remember there always being a large female fanbase.

TOS isn't exactly the blueprint for how to show independent women. Let's not pretend that discourse hadn't started in the late 60s. It had but Star Trek was often really... male.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Let's not pretend the discourse hadn't started." My point was that the nuTrek writers are not very bright and their wives are not very liberated.

 

[Pingfah]

Is Star Trek considered male? The original, I mean. I seem to remember there always being a large female fanbase.

Of course this is only one person I am talking about, but the most famous of all Star Trek fans (and one of the most important figures in Sci-fi fandom in general), widely credited with spearheading the campaign to un-cancel it, was female.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Very true. And I think the origin of the Shatner-Nimoy conflict was that Nimoy was getting more love letters from female fans. Anyway, my memory of the early 70s is that there were tons of female Trekkies.

 

[{ Emilia }]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Let's not pretend the discourse hadn't started." My point was that the nuTrek writers are not very bright and their wives are not very liberated.

Right, I misread that. I thought it was the TOS-writers who asked their wives since you were talking about Star Trek always having a large female fanbase, too. Sorry about the confusion.

 

[Pingfah]

Very true. And I think the origin of the Shatner-Nimoy conflict was that Nimoy was getting more love letters from female fans.

Haha, I can just imagine Shatner getting his huff on about that

 

[RAMA]

So speaking as a guy, I've always liked a mix of attributes in a girl...which I admit is culturally derived...I still like makeup and "girly" things but I also like things that are generally considered "male", such as if they compete in sports, etc. I'm not sure where scifi falls into the scheme of things, I consider it gender neutral but most people probably don't.

RAMA

 

[mari]

I don't know why the nuTrek guys were so worried about appealing to women. Younger straight women, anyway, will inevitably find at least one of Kirk, Spock, McCoy or Scotty to be attractive. (Mine is McCoy. I wasn't going to watch Almost Human until my friend pointed out he's on it.) But I've been a fan long enough that both the birth scene (seriously Starfleet, you're letting your starship crew get pregnant while on a mission? And there's an obstetrician on board?? What is this, TNG?) and the Spock/Uhura thing bugged me until I reminded myself it's an alternate universe, possibly the one in which Enterprise existed. AUs are so convenient.

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My Cabbage Patch Kid is Craig Ray. He's one of the fully-plastic ones meant to go in the bath or pool with you. That did not work as well as CPK had hoped. They get a bit moldy. Before him, I had a rip-off version that was a girl. She has no name, which is weird because I named everything.