Have you ever been mistaken for the opposite sex?

StormWarrior · 01-08-2014 05:47PM #1

I don't know why this happened to me today. I was in a queue at Sainsburys waiting for the woman behind the counter to hand something to me. I was very clearly female, with long hair, pink womens clothes etc but when she handed me the item she said, "There you go sir."

When I was a teenager, again very clearly female with long hair etc I got on the bus, paid the bus driver and he said, "Thanks son."

Has this ever happened to you?

Teyla Emmagan · 01-08-2014 05:49PM

No. HAHA!!

Spunge · 01-08-2014 05:50PM

rekt

smash · 01-08-2014 05:52PM

/awaits transgender argument...

Links234 · 01-08-2014 05:52PM

Yes, both ways.

Links234 · 01-08-2014 05:53PM

smash wrote: »

/awaits transgender argument...

Oh Reginald? I disagree! :pac:

SilverScreen · 01-08-2014 05:54PM

I used to get mistaken for a girl all the time when I had long hair.

I remember one time myself and an ex-girlfriend were kissing in the park, a group of school kids walked by and one of them shouts out "look it's two girls kissing!!". It never bothered me though.

xLisaBx · 01-08-2014 05:54PM

Yeah, used to hang out with a group of boys in 6th class. Was very much a tomboy but had long hair and was clearly a girl.
One of the boys was collected early from school for a dentists appointment. We walked him out to the gate at lunch time, our little group of 5 or so in total. She knew all the others names but not mine as we had never met before. She smiles and asks her son "Whats this am..boys name?"
Her son awkwardly replied that my name is Lisa. She cringed and walked away with her son.
Being an insecure, hormonal young teenager I cried myself to sleep for weeks after.

smash · 01-08-2014 05:54PM

Links234 wrote: »

Oh Reginald? I disagree! :pac:

I was going to say "in before links234"

Birneybau · 01-08-2014 05:54PM

Yeah. I had long hair as a teen. Was stocking shelves in a supermarket, a little old woman said "Excuse me miss", I turned around full bearded.

_Whimsical_ · 01-08-2014 05:59PM

Never happened but I think I'd find it quite upsetting if it did.
That said I have a neighbour who is very petite and feminine who has been often mistaken for her brother so a mistake might be more about clothes or a haircut than a true reflection of how masculine/famine you are in appearance.

cursai · 01-08-2014 06:01PM

I've been mistaken for the opposite of sex!

efb · 01-08-2014 06:01PM

No. I'm a bad looking guy but I'd be one fugly woman.

KindOfIrish · 01-08-2014 06:01PM

Yes. They realised the mistake, but it was too late;)

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 01-08-2014 06:03PM

Tons and tons of time as had really long blonde hair from the age of 14 until late 20s. I drove from the age of 16 also and so know only to well how women get treated on the roads. I'm a fast driver and yet boy racers still somehow never liked it when a blonde was driving faster than they were and would forever try and overtake me, needlessly. Funniest time though, was when the older brother of my mate (a total and utter asshole) who was a Ska at the time and hated metal fans (long haired weirdos to him) was one day down in the local amusements and seen me playing Tetris (as I tended to from time to time, along with OutRun, Double Dragon etc) and so he comes up behind me, grabs my hair and yanks it, in front of all his mates for the craic. Only it wasn't me, it was actually the blonde sister of a guy we knew and she screamed her head off. He apologized I heard but she ran home crying and he got seven bells knocked out of him later that week as a result.

amdublin · 01-08-2014 06:05PM

When I was 14 my sister and I got our hair cut really short.

Walking along the road when this man comes out of his drive and says boys come give my car a push start will you.

We were too embarrassed to say we were girls so we just went in and pushed the car and went back along the road and never ever spoke about it again.

TeddyTedson · 01-08-2014 06:06PM

As an adult hell no, never.
As a kid up to the age of 12 or 13, all the ****ing time. I didn't have particularly long hair or anything but I guess it wasn't short either.
There's nothing more embarrassing as a kid when someone says when your out with you mam, "aw is that your little girl".
**** off!!!!
Oh and for some ****ed up reason my voice didn't break until I was 16 so alllllll the time on the phone.
I think I look fairly masculine now though so I guess nature all worked out in the end

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 01-08-2014 06:07PM

Yep. Czarcasm mistook me for a woman under a different account when he was sending flirty pm's :pac:

How Soon Is Now · 01-08-2014 06:09PM

Would want to be a seriously confused blind fecker to mistake me for a woman!

dilallio · 01-08-2014 06:12PM

When I was a teenager, I had longer hair than I do now. One night (early eighties) at an old style disco where all the girls were seated on one side, and all the lads were seated on the opposite side, I went over to the girls side to chat to some friends.
This really drunk farmer arrives in, and proceeds to work his way up from the back of the hall, asking every single girl to dance.
Of course due to his drunken state and the fact that he was 25 yrs older than anyone else there, all the girls politely declined.
Well, he eventually staggers up to where we were sitting, takes a look at me and says:
"I don't know if you're a boy or a girl, but if you're a girl, will you have a dance?"

I cut my hair the following day.

Maximus Alexander · 01-08-2014 06:13PM

Duracell Bunny wrote: »

Yep. Czarcasm mistook me for a woman under a different account when he was sending flirty pm's :pac:

So it's not just me he does this to?

Arthur Beesley · 01-08-2014 06:14PM

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

Tons and tons of time as had really long blonde hair from the age of 14 until late 20s. I drove from the age of 16 also and so know only to well how women get treated on the roads. I'm a fast driver and yet boy racers still somehow never liked it when a blonde was driving faster than they were and would forever try and overtake me, needlessly. Funniest time though, was when the older brother of my mate (a total and utter asshole) who was a Ska at the time and hated metal fans (long haired weirdos to him) was one day down in the local amusements and seen me playing Tetris (as I tended to from time to time, along with OutRun, Double Dragon etc) and so he comes up behind me, grabs my hair and yanks it, in front of all his mates for the craic. Only it wasn't me, it was actually the blonde sister of a guy we knew and she screamed her head off. He apologized I heard but she ran home crying and he got seven bells knocked out of him later that week as a result.

What age was he? 6?

Bog Standard User · 01-08-2014 06:14PM

StormWarrior wrote: »

I don't know why this happened to me today. I was in a queue at Sainsburys waiting for the woman behind the counter to hand something to me. I was very clearly female, with long hair, pink womens clothes etc but when she handed me the item she said, "There you go sir."

When I was a teenager, again very clearly female with long hair etc I got on the bus, paid the bus driver and he said, "Thanks son."

Has this ever happened to you?

shave your legs lately?

Titzon Toast · 01-08-2014 06:15PM

Yesterday I was talking to someone through an intercom and he called me madame.

Cheese eating surrender monkey he
was.
I must have a feminine voice or something!

Arthur Beesley · 01-08-2014 06:15PM

dilallio wrote: »

When I was a teenager, I had longer hair than I do now. One night (early eighties) at an old style disco where all the girls were seated on one side, and all the lads were seated on the opposite side, I went over to the girls side to chat to some friends.
This really drunk farmer arrives in, and proceeds to work his way up from the back of the hall, asking every single girl to dance.
Of course due to his drunken state and the fact that he was 25 yrs older than anyone else there, all the girls politely declined.
Well, he eventually staggers up to where we were sitting, takes a look at me and says:
"I don't know if you're a boy or a girl, but if you're a girl, will you have a dance?"

I cut my hair the following day.

How did the dance go?

Arthur Beesley · 01-08-2014 06:16PM

Titzon Toast wrote: »

Yesterday I was talking to someone through an intercom and he called me madame.

Cheese eating surrender monkey he
was.
I must have a feminine voice or something!

Or he saw your username.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 01-08-2014 06:19PM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

What age was he? 6?

He was 19 or 20 and I'd say we were around 15'ish. Like I said, a total and utter asshole

A cow called Daisy · 01-08-2014 06:46PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Yeah. I had long hair as a teen. Was stocking shelves in a supermarket, a little old woman said "Excuse me miss", I turned around full bearded.

You mean you weren't wearing pants.

OneArt · 01-08-2014 06:49PM

I haven't (to my knowledge), but a friend of mine was. He's tall, has a beard and short, spiked hair. Bit of a metalhead look about him. One day he got a dangly, circular earring in the shape of a small pocketwatch. It was actually pretty cool looking, but a woman mistook him for a short-haired girl from the back. "Sorry, Madam," she says as she bumped into him. She instantly realised her mistake when she saw the facial hair.

Tar.Aldarion · 01-08-2014 06:57PM

Somebody thought I was a dude before :pac:

shruikan2553 · 01-08-2014 07:04PM

I have long hair so it often happens before people see my beard.

Have you ever been mistaken for the opposite sex?

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