(February 8, 2013 at 4:52 pm)John V Wrote: Incorrect. Effeminate is typically used of males or inanimate objects, not females. Do you need me to post some definitions showing that?
I'm looking at one right now...
"(of a man) having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly."
And that's all it says before it goes into origins and alternate forms. It's been used for many a year TYPICALLY for males (and inanimate objects)... but it's base use has always existed, and it's being increasingly used by butch ladies into other butch ladies as a put-down for 'lipstick lesbians'.
Again, I intentionally put foppish in there for you to have a field day with, and you ignored it
I totally agree that its usual usage is "(of a man)"... but that doesn't stop me from recognizing its use outside of such 
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
