Where Do You Put Yourself on a Feminine/Masculine Continuum? (girls, emotion)

[reneeh63]

This should be in the Psych forum....your options are incomplete.

Many years ago (in the '70s?, ha) some theories came about with the idea that people don't just have to be feminine OR masculine...that you can be a bit or a lot of both. If you happen to be a fair amount of both fem and masc. you would be "androgynous". Also, you can be "neither":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bem_Sex-Role_Inventory

[Marie Joseph]

I am probably somewhere squarely in the middle.

I like jewelry and enjoy dance & other artistic pursuits.

I also like working on cars, solving logic problems and my idea of well put together is jeans and a clean t-shirt.

[Parnassia]

Where? Nowhere. Don't care and it doesn't matter.

[Black Picket Fence]

If I compare myself to other women (in general), I'm very masculine. So much of what is considered "feminine" feels utterly alien to me. I don't relate very well to most women, and don't have many female friends (and the ones I do are oddballs like me).

But if I compare myself to men (in general), I'm not particularly masculine. I do, however, have an easier time relating to and socializing with men (and usually skilled blue-collar types, not educated professionals or Sensitive New Age Guys), so that's who most of my friends tend to be.

So given that, and that "a little masculine" feels closest to my own experience (though it's actually somewhere in between "a little" and "medium"), there you have it.

[katharsis]

Without knowing the parameters, I put Medium Feminine because I think I am fairly average in the respect.

I am heterosexual, and I like "chick flicks" (although I dislike Harlequin-romance-type novels), and I likesome "traditionally feminine" hobbies like baking, and when I was younger, I liked dressing up (and I still like longer hair on me than most old ladies wear), but I also love to go tent camping and "roughing it", and I like some dramatic action thrillers that are long on drama but short on gore and violence.

However, I am much more objective and analytical than I am emotional. (I very rarely cry.) But, OTOH, I confess that I do enjoy YouTube videos of kittens, puppies and babies.

[Lockdev]

Definitely a man's man, which seems to be a rarity among my fellow soy drinking millennials.

The media's hatred for testosterone and masculinity has really made an impact, and I don't think it's been for the better.

[doc1]

Originally Posted by NVplumber

Interesting. Hmmm. Well, there is absolutely no doubt that I am a man. In appearance and action. My physical side I suppose falls in the super masculine section. Emotionally I'm not so tough. I can be hurt quite easily and my heart has been known to be a bit to open and giving. I'm sentimental, and I'm not so hard bitten in areas involving my heart. And that's cost me big...........

Couldn't put it better at describing myself.

Thanks for doing the heavy lifting.

[Zoisite]

I think it's a rather strange question and poll but I voted anyway, I voted for Other. I'd say I'm equally feminine and masculine. Not super or medium or a little bit of either trait (those choices don't make sense, how can I possibly choose one without also choosing all the others?), I'm just an individual with an equal combination of both feminine and masculine traits.

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[TashaPosh]

I’m super feminine & I would say my fiancé is super masculine....tho it is a weird poll.

AND...wouldn’t “medium feminine” be the same thing as “medium masculine”...or just neutral.

Originally Posted by Thulsa

As for me, I say I'm super masculine, but first I'll check with my wife what my choice should be, lol.

Lol...




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Originally Posted by nobodysbusiness

The categories are very clunky.

Ita. IMO feeling feminine or masculine is feeling comfortable with your body & identifying with your gender....so can you do that a “little” or “medium”?

[reneeh63]

Originally Posted by TashaPosh

I’m super feminine & I would say my fiancé is super masculine....tho it is a weird poll.

AND...wouldn’t “medium feminine” be the same thing as “medium masculine”...or just neutral.








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Ita. IMO feeling feminine or masculine is feeling comfortable with your body & identifying with your gender....so can you do that a “little” or “medium”?

Comfortable "with your body"? As in your sex organs or secondary sexual characteristics or both? Many people don't like their bodies but that is not usually related to femininity or masculinity.

Stick thin women who are "straight up and down" with no boobs or butt, e.g. - if they like their bodies are they more feminine? Or are they less feminine because they like their "boyish" body?