Do you play a gender role in your relationships?

If yes, what do you like about it?

If no, what do you find unappealing about them?


Note: Please be nice and have respect for each others choices.

I am not concious of trying to act in specific way due to my gender. But I am a woman. So I sometimes do wear the dress :)


In a relationship with a man, I will normally wait for him to initiate, but that is just as much because of my personality style as it is my gender. I am quite introverted in person and seldom initiate interactions

just go with the flow i guess . if you love your partner enough and its not to wierd for them .it just becomes naughty adult fun. or keeping the spice in your sex life i guess .

so many out there claim to be lesbiens traped in a mans body. just be good to be a fly on the wall when the girls declares vice versa and has a rather large toy.

OK someone's been out drinking tonight....

not guilty

if u say so

the eccentric look on life isn`t caused by alcohol .its life`s experience`s and .just saying why be so serious.

I don't insist on playing any role. However, when it comes to making choices about my life and future, I'll do that for myself. But, I've found that alone usually places me in the traditional male role.

I'm adaptable and assume any role necessary to ensure that everything within the framework of our environment is kept running smoothly... it takes a lot of work to run a home, on top of bringing the money in to pay the expenses to keep it that way... and I like to be amenable to our relationship's needs because if there is lack of positive action chaos can reign... and I'm more about keeping the peace and stability in the relationship...

I don't want to be put in a "mold" or confined to a "cage" based on my gender...When I was born my parents didn't surround me with the color pink or dolls and play kitchen sets...They had a bat and ball and chemistry set waiting for me and a tool box..I was free to explore all areas...So I wouldn't do well with a man who expected me to play "Sally Homemaker" today...My husband felt free to be "all" he wanted to be (too) so we were a good "match."...Neither one of us wanted to be pushed into a corner and told to play out assigned roles based on our gender.

Their is one thing that I am more than willing to allow guys to do that i feel is a mans role. . . . . TAKE OUT THE TRASH :)

Isn’t it amazing that wearing a dress doesn’t impede one’s ability to bring home the bacon and take out the trash?

This might fit better under the heading...All's fair in love and war.

I always take out the trash

Yes, but a single man is capable of at least the basic "female roles", or his house would be a pigsty, his clothes would reek, and he'd probably be starving. Unless he hires those chores out.

I think picking up the slack is gender neutral. But I consider just about everything gender neutral.

indeed it does not!

altho men are quite capable as well :)

I like a partnership relationship where we both make decisions together and equally contribute to the household. If there comes a time where we don't agree, I would hope the Man in my life could make the right decision. I do believe a Man should be "head" and be responsible enough to be "head" of household.

That’s pure green eye girl power! We green eyed girls have to stick together.

I was raised in a very gender role specific family. I had instruction in cooking, knitting, sewing, cleaning and gardening from a young age. I didn’t mind it at all, because I enjoy having ability in those areas, but as I grew up, I decided I liked sports, fixing my own car and doing my own minor construction as well. I consider myself a feminine woman, but don’t fit in a female role box. My interests are just too varied. I don’t think that makes me any less of a woman, or any threat to a man. It just makes me...me.

Penny, I would like to introduce you to ManOfewords.