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answer to the boy/girl question

Student is a BOY.  Most of you were right, although I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought "girl."  Unfortunately, I called him a "her" in front of the whole class.  I was mortified!  He was embarrassed, but seemed to take it in stride.

Re: answer to the boy/girl question

  • Oh no! At least he seems to have been a good sport. I used to get called a boy all the time. I guess because I'm really tall and tend to keep my hair short. I still get it from time to time. About a year ago, I went to a different pharmacy to get my BC filled. The pharmacist asked me if the script was for a man or woman. When I said it was for me, she asked me if I was a man. Ok, my boobs are small, but seriously? Apparently my name is a man's name in Albania, where she's from. Still none of her business. And a month ago, a senile man came into work, and asked what "this young man" was eating. I didn't respond. Then he tapped me on the shoulder and repeated what he said. I very loudly stated that I had a vagina and he left.

    I called a boy a girl once. I was helping out with a young musicians competition. The name was ambiguous, and the child had long blonde hair, and played the harp. I didn't really look up when I directed them to the "little girls' room" When he said "I'm a boy" I was motified. He wasn't mad, and said he got it all the time.

  • i was called a boy a few times when i cut my hair in 6th grade. i was even quoted in a local newspaper and they wrote "he". i was mortified. i was going to guess boy. while it's certainly possible a girl can dress manly, i thought it was more likely that it was a boy with feminine features who maybe hasnt hit puberty yet. did you call him she before or after the poll? i guess you couldn't come up with a sentence that didn't use the pronoun? don't feel too bad - i am sure it got a laugh and they probably don't put much stock in what you say anyway since you are probably ancient to them.
    Me:39 Dx LPD, Fibroid, AMA and all that goes with that. H:37 Dx low motility and low morphology. TTC since 3/12. Clomid 8/12 and 9/12: BFN. 11/12 on a break for Myomectomy sched. 11/26. Resume TTC early 2013.
  • imageMarylandWed:
    i was called a boy a few times when i cut my hair in 6th grade. i was even quoted in a local newspaper and they wrote "he". i was mortified. i was going to guess boy. while it's certainly possible a girl can dress manly, i thought it was more likely that it was a boy with feminine features who maybe hasnt hit puberty yet. did you call him she before or after the poll? i guess you couldn't come up with a sentence that didn't use the pronoun? don't feel too bad - i am sure it got a laugh and they probably don't put much stock in what you say anyway since you are probably ancient to them.

    love it! lol

     

  • image*city bride*:

    imageMarylandWed:
    i was called a boy a few times when i cut my hair in 6th grade. i was even quoted in a local newspaper and they wrote "he". i was mortified. i was going to guess boy. while it's certainly possible a girl can dress manly, i thought it was more likely that it was a boy with feminine features who maybe hasnt hit puberty yet. did you call him she before or after the poll? i guess you couldn't come up with a sentence that didn't use the pronoun? don't feel too bad - i am sure it got a laugh and they probably don't put much stock in what you say anyway since you are probably ancient to them.

    love it! lol

     

    Too true...

    I was also mistaken for a boy when I was in middle school.  I had a short bowl cut, and wore horrible glasses, and I looked like the kid from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

     

  • imagekokomama:
    image*city bride*:

    imageMarylandWed:
    i was called a boy a few times when i cut my hair in 6th grade. i was even quoted in a local newspaper and they wrote "he". i was mortified. i was going to guess boy. while it's certainly possible a girl can dress manly, i thought it was more likely that it was a boy with feminine features who maybe hasnt hit puberty yet. did you call him she before or after the poll? i guess you couldn't come up with a sentence that didn't use the pronoun? don't feel too bad - i am sure it got a laugh and they probably don't put much stock in what you say anyway since you are probably ancient to them.

    love it! lol

     

    Too true...

    I was also mistaken for a boy when I was in middle school.  I had a short bowl cut, and wore horrible glasses, and I looked like the kid from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

     

    koko, is that you?

    image

    Me:39 Dx LPD, Fibroid, AMA and all that goes with that. H:37 Dx low motility and low morphology. TTC since 3/12. Clomid 8/12 and 9/12: BFN. 11/12 on a break for Myomectomy sched. 11/26. Resume TTC early 2013.
  • here's my celebrity lookalike for when i was mistaken for a boy in 6th grade:

    image

    Me:39 Dx LPD, Fibroid, AMA and all that goes with that. H:37 Dx low motility and low morphology. TTC since 3/12. Clomid 8/12 and 9/12: BFN. 11/12 on a break for Myomectomy sched. 11/26. Resume TTC early 2013.
  • imageMarylandWed:
    imagekokomama:
    image*city bride*:

    imageMarylandWed:
    i was called a boy a few times when i cut my hair in 6th grade. i was even quoted in a local newspaper and they wrote "he". i was mortified. i was going to guess boy. while it's certainly possible a girl can dress manly, i thought it was more likely that it was a boy with feminine features who maybe hasnt hit puberty yet. did you call him she before or after the poll? i guess you couldn't come up with a sentence that didn't use the pronoun? don't feel too bad - i am sure it got a laugh and they probably don't put much stock in what you say anyway since you are probably ancient to them.

    love it! lol

     

    Too true...

    I was also mistaken for a boy when I was in middle school.  I had a short bowl cut, and wore horrible glasses, and I looked like the kid from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

     

    koko, is that you?

    image

    Just about!  Stick some ugly glasses on him, and he could be my twin.

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