Article: Gender-bender contest may earn women respect

AN Auckland radio station is prepared to pay a bloke $10,000 to live as a woman for two weeks.

What? I've been living as one all my life and nobody's given me cash for enduring my existence.

More FM wants the contestant to devote the entire fortnight to being a woman. Any bloke survives all the things a chick has to put up with might just deserve the dosh.

I assume he'll have to get up an hour earlier to shower with softly-scented soap, blow-dry his hair, tong it to sit nice, apply the make-up. That will include moisturising, foundation, careful application of the lipstick and mascara, bit of blusher - and all applied to look, oh so, natural.

And it's not even 7am yet.

He'll have to get ...

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