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    [–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 27 insightful - 8 fun27 insightful - 7 fun28 insightful - 8 fun -  (2 children)

    Somehow he made himself look even more like a guy than a girl.

    While: LOL... also very much a case of "it's funny because it's true." Indeed. I've noticed PRECISELY this phenomenon on multiple occasions. Namely, that trying to look like the opposite sex... only succeeds in emphasizing your OWN.

    Take men who are, in physical terms, naturally on the androgynous side: relatively small nose/jaw/brow; large eyes; fine eyebrows; little facial/body hair; slim; short; etc. If they're just being themselves, making no attempt to appear other than male... what stands out is everything that's exception-to-the-masculine-rule about them; the overall impression is of, if not femininity per se, being "feminine-leaning".

    But as soon as they do the "I'm-a-LAY-DEE!" thing? It calls attention to... that Adam's apple. The squarish (and perhaps receding) hairline. The big chin. The thin lips. The too-large hands and feet. The waistless, hipless figure. And so on. And on, and on, and on...

    Because, before? All these things FIT. They were a harmonious part of the whole. That whole being maleness. Instead of sounding one discordant note after another. And thus jarring the SHIT out of the audience.

    And yet, if your goal is not to deny your sex, but rather to enhance it? This same principle can be your friend. Women and girls have used it that way for ages. When ultra-glamorous movie star Marlene Dietrich donned an elegant tux-and-tails complete with top hat (which basically qualified as drag back then), or Irish iconoclast-singer Sinead O'Connor shaved her head during the 1980s, it only served to highlight everything that made them womanly. A "male" (according to gender-role rules) haircut just threw into sharp relief how delicate Sinead's facial features were, what enormous eyes she had... in short, how feminine (and beautiful) she was.

    Which, far from being disturbing, is often highly attractive. Because YOU AREN'T TRYING TO FOOL ANYONE. Including, perhaps most importantly... yourself.

    [–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Excellent analysis!

    On a similar note, I am obviously female and I am pretty feminine, but if I try to put on a lot of makeup, especially if I were to emulate the drag-inspired style that has been in vogue for years thanks to YouTube, it makes me look more masculine and also ages me in an unflattering way. That's because despite being obviously female and feminine-leaning, I do have prominent and sharp bone structure throughout my skeleton including my facial bones. My body is like soft flesh on sharp bones, so I look more teenage than womanly despite being in my 30s, especially when I'm not wearing makeup. Anyway, the more makeup I put on, the more it emphasizes the sharpness in my face and diminishes the natural softness. So I look better and more feminine in more minimal makeup. Drawing on eyebrows, covering my face in thick foundation, using contour, heavy eye makeup, and heavy bronzer are all really harsh on me and make me look older and less feminine than when I started.

    [–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    It seems to be related to the uncanny valley effect. When a robot is obviously a robot, all its human-like qualities stand out. Take, for example, Wall-e and eve, neither of whom could ever be mistaken for a human, but their emotive faces and upper limbs highlight how similar to a human they are. Take, basically any human animatronic, however, and you have a rubber face that just isnt quite right or eyes that look real, but absolutely dead inside movements that should be natural, but have a prerecorded essence to them. When they don't perfectly emulate humans, their robot qualities are what stands out.

    This is similar with what you described, how a masculine haircut or outfit makes all the feminine features of a beautiful woman stand out, or how a dress and styled, long hair make an adam's apple stand out. Acknowledging what you are while taking features of something you aren't can often make something stand out with contrast, but it is a delicate art to make sure what you want to stand out is what stands out, and not what you're trying to hide. And that seems to be it, Marlene and Wall-e weren't hiding anything, so everything that stood out was meant to be seen, but when you poorly cover a hole in the wall with a poster, everyone looks at that indented poster