(February 8, 2013 at 4:30 pm)John V Wrote: Your own wording refutes you.
Person with dick and certain traits = effeminate
Person with vagina and same traits = feminine
No, johny dear: effeminacy can be applied to females just as readily as males, and increasingly is with further recognition of lesbian couples
It's typically used as a derogative, of course. And males are readily declarable as 'feminine', which is neutral, and often intended as a positive value
Someone not grasping intent as it relates to the english language ≠ someone else's wording refuting their argument. Of the three terms I pulled, foppish was by far the weakest... neither effeminacy nor femininity is necessarily of either gender (however often it be used towards either one)... but foppishness only occurs in a dandy, a glamour boy, and a 'snappy dresser'
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
