I get round the cycling-in-a-skirt issue by mostly buying shortish flouncy skirts which don't get in the way. Long flouncy skirts can be almost impossible though, no matter how hard you try to tuck them up there's always a bit trying to escape and get stuck in your back brakes. It helps that I'm a fan of short skirts anyway, and don't care if people think I shouldn't be showing that much leg.
The lack of pockets is an issue, given I'm not a handbag person - I can put up with a bag while getting from A to B but can't bear to keep one with me at all times. I cope by being willing to be parted from wallet/phone/keys for much of the day at work, although occasionally I have to beg a colleague to let me back in the office if Julia has gone out and locked it :)
In the winter I'll almost always be wearing jeans anyway.
Like others I definitely don't think having kids is unfeminist. I don't even think it's unfeminist having kids and giving up work to look after them. There's a bit of me that quite wants kids too, and wants to at least be able to spend some reasonable amount of time with them, but I do wonder how you afford that in a traditional way when your earnings aren't the traditional way round! There's a bit of me that wonders what's the point of having kids and continuing to work full time so you don't see them, and wonders if men feel like that too. I do feel like I don't have many years left to work it out.
I don't do makeup routinely, but might a little for parties etc - I never did get the hang of foundation though. Like Rach I wonder if I might get vain about that later :) I do shave my legs and armpits, although not obsessively. I find it more attractive that way, and although I recognise that it's a completely artificial preference that was drummed into me as a teenager (teenagers can be horrid to each other) I don't seem to be able to just turn it off. I do find the smooth *feeling* of freshly shaved legs really nice though.
And as one invisible bisexual to another I still think you're cute :)
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I get round the cycling-in-a-skirt issue by mostly buying shortish flouncy skirts which don't get in the way. Long flouncy skirts can be almost impossible though, no matter how hard you try to tuck them up there's always a bit trying to escape and get stuck in your back brakes. It helps that I'm a fan of short skirts anyway, and don't care if people think I shouldn't be showing that much leg.
The lack of pockets is an issue, given I'm not a handbag person - I can put up with a bag while getting from A to B but can't bear to keep one with me at all times. I cope by being willing to be parted from wallet/phone/keys for much of the day at work, although occasionally I have to beg a colleague to let me back in the office if Julia has gone out and locked it :)
In the winter I'll almost always be wearing jeans anyway.
Like others I definitely don't think having kids is unfeminist. I don't even think it's unfeminist having kids and giving up work to look after them. There's a bit of me that quite wants kids too, and wants to at least be able to spend some reasonable amount of time with them, but I do wonder how you afford that in a traditional way when your earnings aren't the traditional way round! There's a bit of me that wonders what's the point of having kids and continuing to work full time so you don't see them, and wonders if men feel like that too. I do feel like I don't have many years left to work it out.
I don't do makeup routinely, but might a little for parties etc - I never did get the hang of foundation though. Like Rach I wonder if I might get vain about that later :) I do shave my legs and armpits, although not obsessively. I find it more attractive that way, and although I recognise that it's a completely artificial preference that was drummed into me as a teenager (teenagers can be horrid to each other) I don't seem to be able to just turn it off. I do find the smooth *feeling* of freshly shaved legs really nice though.
And as one invisible bisexual to another I still think you're cute :)