So when a boy wears tight pants and paints his nails and maybe even puts on a little makeup, it's not immediately as clear to the average person what gender expression he's trying to go for (e.g. These days there's more variation in styles within genders: women wear baggy hoodies and boy cuts, men wear skinny jeans and long hair in buns. This is a small aside, but I'd argue that femboy and crossdresser aren't exactly synonymous, and I think the reason we tend to hear "femboy" instead of "crossdresser" these days is that, back when social rules were a lot more strict about how the supposed 2 genders needed to visually differentiate themselves (long hair vs short hair, skirts vs pants), it was much more clear that a person was "crossing" over to the other side and dressing like that. The development of this trend of course has lots of other factors feeding into it, but I think at its core this explains the recent progress made in gender spectrum representation in anime. In recent times there has been a growth (and success) in versions of these types of shows where the characters are all male, often in sporting type situations like swimming or volleyball.īecause of this success in both sides of appealing to peoples gender dating preference, anime production studios have realized that the main characters gender is actually irrelevant, and they can appeal to a wider audience by creating a harem anime with a cast arrayed along the spectrum. Historically lots of anime have been stories where one male character has a potential to have a relationship with many girl characters, and the fun for the audience is watching how he builds relationships with each of them. Selfies allowed only in the pinned Saturday selfie thread. Quick summary: no NSFW content, no creeping, no bigotry, no looking for dates and hookups. r/masculinegirls RULES: avoid reading them at your peril, they are enforced. Saturday is the only official day for selfies, there's usually a thread started sometime Friday night.
Introduction posts are highly encouraged. <3ĭiscord! This is a PG-13 place, so keep it classy. We are an SFW community for feminine people who've had or have a male experience, and those who admire them (be they gay or straight), to talk about all things pretty and otherwise. We don't say bigoted things, we don't be mean to each other, and we don't hurt anyone's feelings. We are intrinsically political and we lean left (as the right despises feminine boys), we are very community-oriented, and we work to help each other out the best we can. We are fun, we are happy, we are light-hearted and flirty. RULES: avoid reading them at your peril, they are enforced.