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- Embed this notice@FeartnTired Stereotypical femininity only bothers me if it's in excess and overtly sexualized, I suppose. I enjoy plenty of "feminine" things and "masculine" things, and it's pointless to attempt to quantify my "gender preference" or whatever. Which is why I value the constancy of biological sex and am annoyed by the vagaries of contemporary gender.
I think an example is this one participant on US What Not To Wear. She disturbed me because she was playing the "sex-doll bimbo" and the facade NEVER dropped through the whole episode. Not even after her makeover, which involved toning down her sexed-up, male gazey look. Doing so "ironically" has its own problems, but she seemed genuinely invested in this persona. She kept her lips frozen in the duck face position on camera to the detriment of her speaking voice, that’s how bad it was. That's the sort of "femininity" I struggle to condone.