it would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them

13. How do you feel after an argument?  

    there is no one way to feel after an argument. It would depend on with whom I argued, and what about, as well as how it ended. There are too many factors at work there to give a straight answer.

14. What’s the craziest thing you did on a dare?  

    the first couple times I glanced at this question, I read it as "date" rather than "dare," which could have been funnier. Alas....

    It was not precisely a dare, but I was once challenged to a hopping-on-one-foot race with a drunk rugby player, across an icy sidewalk. I won the race (he slipped on the ice and fell into a snowbank within milliseconds) but at high cost. When I realized I'd won, I turned around and threw up my arms in victory - whereupon I lost my balance, struggled to regain it, grabbed for a tree branch, and dislocated my shoulder.

15. What made you first feel like a woman?  

    acquiring lingerie that was purely aesthetic rather than functional

1. What would you think if a guy spent more time on his looks than you?  

    I have a strong sense of familiarity with this sort of guy...

2. Do you like beards?  

    I'm involved with someone who sometimes grows facial hair, and I love that face regardless of fashion

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3. What do you think about guys with long hair?  

    it's a tough one. I try not to get into absolutes, but personal preference is undoubtedly at play in attraction. I'm really, really not attracted to guys with really long hair, especially not when it's "put up" in a ponytail or a bun.

4. Did you ever cheat at exams? 

     nope. I test pretty well, so exams don't freak me out too much. There were a few homework assignments that were done in more of a collaborative format than intended, and my Chemistry and Physics lab notebooks were almost entirely cribbed from a friend who was a lab assistant.  

5. Did you have many guy friends in school?  

    growing up, yes. Less and less over time, though.

6. What does it mean to be a woman, to you?  

    it means sorting out how to handle being made fun of for hormones that I never asked for. It means spending thousands of dollars over young- and adulthood on personal products that I loathed. It means learning how to live in what is "a man's world" without pretending that it's a hardship, since it's simply reality. All that while wearing high heels and dancing backward, right?

7. Would you consider yourself a feminist? 

    absolutely not

 

[from here; the title quotation is by Dorothy Sayers, from Gaudy Night]