RE: Anyone identify with being feminine? How about masculine?
November 13, 2016 at 4:11 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2016 at 4:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 13, 2016 at 1:11 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I will talk about myself as a hetero man and others like me. This may very well describe only a a portion of the people described anyway. I dont know.You know what really throws em off? When you -don't- treat them differently. Look deep into his eyes when you speak. Smile, cock your head to the side. Speak to him gently, half whispering. Lightly brush his upper arm with your open palm when you want to get his attention.
I've found that men, including me, tend to treat other men differently than women, for example. Very differently.
@The OP
I guess I do identify with being masculine, though I couldn't pin it down. Not sure if it's worth much, though, since my grandmothers twice the man I am whatever the metrics for masculinity happen to be. I suppose it's only judged in relation to a perception of femininity, really. Everytime I have to remind myself "you're being a bitch" (sorry ladies, my inner voice is a complete asshole) it stands as stark reminder that I know what masculinity -isn't- even if I don't know what it is, lol. Couldn;t really pin it down to any paricular act either. Since, in my opinion, when I sing, I sing like a fuckin man. When I braid hair, I do it like a dude does it. There's just this running notion that whatever it is I'm doing,and it could be a pirouette in a tutu, I'm somehow doing it "the masculine way".
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