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This is in response to an honest question someone asked about the differences in men and women sweating, in particular the chest and breast area.
Do you ever normally think about how your hands sweat? Maybe your feet and legs sweat? What is between a man's or woman's legs may sweat or leak? Most everyone grows up in a normalcy bias, what is, is what is and they never think about it. I can't say it's any different as a male or as a female. Sure there is more area, more flesh to glow as a female than sweat as a male. Do I ever think about it? Not until this question came up. never really give my breasts any more consideration than the rest of my body besides how I look in a dress or a blouse. Sometimes I put a pad in the bottom of my bra for extra push up so the cut of the dress or blouse may give a little more positive picture, she is she.
Stepping outside the normal may raise questions because it's no long normal. Boob sweat? Does one perspire? Do women glow and men sweat? Do women's hips naturally roll with every step and men lurch with every step? Most women glide if they have any upbringing at all, or if they have baby bearing hips. Ever watch a horse walk? That's not a slander against women but an observation of women and horses. I'm not slicing and dicing the female gender, I am one myself. I had to learn how to walk like a female, it didn't come naturally. Men don't glide nor do their hips sway unless they are trained dancers. It's natural for women, trained art for men. Guys give it a try, it's an un natural motion for men.
Wed my psychiatrist and I were discussing natural differences in men and women. I mentioned I studied what makes a beautiful woman beautiful, what small things women do to be more attractive, the facial features common to women who have exceptionally beautiful faces. Some women have one or two things, others have the whole enchilada.
I saw an exceptionally beautiful woman with mahogany colored jelly nails and lipstick. Her beautiful mane was polished mahogany. I wanted that look. The color was so wrong for me I looked like Halloween. Besides my hair is snow white.
She smiled as she nodded in agreement. Most transgender people know more about women than women themselves. We accept it as a normal thing. Transgender study us. You and I have the wrong skin color to copy that look.
Hugs People
Barbie Jean
Please do your best to look your best. We are the pioneers for the girls who follow us. May be even showing genetic girls how to look like real women instead of an escapee from the laundry hamper?
Comments
Women
Have fewer sweat and sebaceous glands and drier skin as will those who take oestrogen for long periods.
Angharad
I really couldn’t say about sweat.
But after a year and a half on hormones, I think I’m starting to smell different.
Most days I’m just bumming at home unless I’m out for a jog. So I wear comfy stuff.
But Sundays are a chance to make the effort, work on my face, and enjoy some of my nice clothes. For today it was a cute white two piece ribbed knit pants set. And people have noticed. And that really helps my self image.
And for traveling, I always do my face and try to wear something comfortable but feminine. It helps me pass, and stay safe.
Can’t really say about hips. But maybe some of my exercise and dance move practice helps me feel more loose?
I do try to pay attention to how the women are dressing and behaving.
Gillian Cairns
Women don't sweat
we... glisten!
Love, Andrea Lena
Actually
Horses sweat, men perspire and women glisten.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
In the UK we say something
In the UK we say something slightly different:
Horses sweat, gentlemen perspire and ladies merely glow.
Now I know how to tell whether a woman is a lady.
My daughter has been heard to lament
My daughter has been heard to lament that she inherited my sweat glands, rather than those of her mother.
I perspire profusely even in winter, while her mother doesn't appear to sweat at all.
Additionally, my oldest brother doesn't perspire either, so go know.
It's a genetic crapshoot.
In the last century, I was doing manual labor in a hot dry climate (it was NOT a chain gang, FYI), and I observed that one of my co-workers always doused his lunch with a hot-pepper oil. I asked why and he said that it helped his "circulation." I tried some, and all afternoon I was drenched from head to foot. Silly me, not knowing that my friend's issue was that he never broke a sweat unless he ate something spicy.
(sometimes sweaty) hugs,
- iolanthe
Maybe Ask your Daughter
to check what she eats? Something she may be eating could contribute to the sweating like you just said...
It's possible?
Sephrena
No, it's just genes
It's a myth that women don't sweat.
The Taming of the Beast
It's more than physical in case we all forget in this little blog. There are so many different words which when boiled down in definition they do, but again they don't mean the same thing. Male and female are both of the human species or possibly not the way some individuals act. Do men go to the bathroom to take care of the necessities and women go to the powder room?
I haven't ever seen nor heard of the female species arrive at a gathering, get out of the vehicle, reach down between her legs scratching and rubbing and loudly yell, "WHO BROUGHT THE BEER!"
I haven't ever seen a female "sweat" and if one is truly observant nor do they have the same odor as male who are sweating.
Hugs Iolanthe Portma, I'm not debating you sugar, just my own observations of the M and F species
Barbie Jean
That small ounce of lead or the bomb never questioned if it was a M or F at the end of its travels. We all become equal in the most non discriminating way ever.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl