What does feeling like a man or like a woman mean?

Those expressions do not mean that one feels at any moment like the other gender.

When a woman says she feels like a woman, it is generally understood she feels loving, nurturing, feminine and sexual desirable.

When a man says he feels like a man, it is generally understood to mean he feels strong, powerful, and sexually strong.

When a trans person says “I feel like a—-, ” the person is expressing the feeling of being a gender.

My beard, my physique, my power, my birth certificate: they tell me I’m a man.
Where it concerns my emotions, my feelings, my thinking, I not so much feel male, nor female…, just human.

Regarding how it FEELS, as a man, I can say it probably gets down to aggression,territoriality and attractiveness to females.
Beards and the fact you got a dick and not a vagina and such have little to do with testerone influenced feelings

I know what a ‘double-reverse’ is, and what ‘4th and goal from the one’ means.

My wife makes fantastic lasagna.
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I think that’s about it…..

Well, you said “If a person is has been living alone on an island by him/herself, clearly, they can’t feel like the opposite gender. ” Does it follow that they can’t feel like their gender either?

@Dutchess_III @NomoreY_A It was a volleyball.

If a person says _“Inside, I feel like a WASP
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant,) eventhough my exterior is. ....so, I need to become a WASP, surgically, what would that be about?
People can’t reduce their identity to their exterior, their anatomy, biological makeup. Otherwise Hitler was a Hitler because he was a male. Or the people who saved people from being victims of Nazis, it’s because they are female? male? German, Jewish, .....(see it doesn’t work)
@rebbel,
“Where it concerns my emotions, my feelings, my thinking, I not so much feel male, nor female…, just human. ” Bingo.

….Editing above: ”...so, I need to become a WASP, surgically.” What would that be about?”

You can’t change your nationality surgically. If you’re a white Anglo Saxon that’s your nationality. If you’re African American you can’t change that.
If you’re a protestant you just change religions. That doesn’t take surgery.

There are a lot of things people wouldn’t experience if they were raised alone on a desert line, but alas, our “ethics” don’t allow us to experiment with this!

Would a person raised on a desert island even develop a normal sexual attraction? How could a man who’s never seen or even known the existence of females develop an attraction to them? All humans are born with the capacity to learn a language, but if a person grows up isolated on a desert island, they won’t learn one. (And rare examples of “feral children” show that they can’t really be taught one later either; they’ve “missed the window”).

I’ve had the luxury, in my life, to never have to worry about whether my outsides matched my insides.

So, I have no idea what it’s like to feel like a gender, because I just feel like me.

Likewise, I don’t know what it’s like to feel judged for my skin color, or my nationality, or my religion, because all of those things are, for me, a socially acceptable default (or at least have the appearance of same).

That’s called “privilege”.

The fact that you don’t understand those feelings due to a lack of perspective does not mean they do not exist for others.

@DominicY,
I can’t disagree with you. I guess it’s not a good idea to refer to island/alone thing. But please answer the OP.

@Muad_Dib Pease answer rhe OP. What does it mean to_ feel like a woman _ unless it’s liking decoration related things, nurturing kids , needing to be protected by men, to have doors of cars opened for them and on and on, and what does it mean to feel like a man unless it is the usual “manly” (stereotypical) things?

And @Muad_Dib you can put your post above at:
https://www.fluther.com/202933/what-does-the-other-side-say-about-male-female-transgender/
that is where it belongs.

She can’t answer. Neither can I. Every one feels like themselves. We don’t know what other people feel like.

Are you looking for stereotype of what people think a woman or man should feel like

I believe my answer was relevant, clear, and easy to understand, in stark contrast to your questions and subsequent responses.

@Muad_Dib Re. your I don’t know what it’s like to feel judged for my skin color, or my nationality, or my religion, ... ”
That’s about being discriminated by other people, not about how a person feels without anyone else’s input/influence.

By the way @Muad_Dib “she can’t answer”? Are you ok with someone else speaking for you?

I was trying, yet again, to make it clear to you.

Let’s turn it around. You are female. So what does being a female feel like to you?