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Androgyny: Soooo hot right now!

Have you noticed the amount of androgyny in the media? In fashion? How do you feel about it? Do you find this phenomenon to be something of beauty? In your mind, is this positive or negative? What message is this sending to the youth of our country?

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Personally, I like my males to be masculine, thanks. But if that's the guy you like, then go for it.

@jennifer & @seedeypete I agree with you guys - I have always found androgyny to be rather beautiful and stunning. It is definitely something that I have always admired and connected with. I've always been a tomboy both in the way I dress and in how I behave. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Shedding our gender roles allows us to develop into a more genuine version of ourselves. I didn't to a great job in expressing myself. I came across as having issues with the clothing itself and with the concept of androgyny. What I meant to say has more to do with promoting a physical ideal that is unrealistic for females, if not males as well. Many of these models are extremely thin for their gender, which is fine, but I feel as if that puts negative pressure on curvaceous adolescent girls and women in general.

I was here the last time it was "hot." I would say I've missed it a lot. God bless the androgynes. God bless Antony. (Heard of him?) I will always love David Bowie's dresses.

my ideal mate is masculine and feminine combined. like me. maybe androgyny is a safe way for "straight" people to act on their true desires to be bisexual. maybe within the science of human nature is to be attracted to whomever we want and androgyny allows it in a judgemental society

Meh. Gender role reversal has always been considered sexy (tho albeit a smidge risqué)... almost as sexy as gender itself. Androgyny is simply more of the same, just more ambiguous. It is what it is.

I dig it... as a woman I get frustrated shopping in the woman's section, so I buy men's clothing... a 34x30 pair of pants in mens is the same size no matter what brand or store you buy it from... woman's clothes... whooo I can wear anything from a 10 to a 16... ick...and that's just the waist, not the length... that's to much work... so since the androgyny trend kicked in I can get more femininly cut pants from the mens section and know they're going to fit without having to try on 4 differant pairs of the same damn thing. I'm lovin it.

@socule i agree with you in the sense that it may help us to begin to shed some of our gender-role restrictions/expectations. What worries me is that i get the feeling that it may send a message that will cause females to reject their physical femininity. Now, i am saying this as someone that rarely flaunts her femininity. its pretty silly, but i feel like a bit of a fraud carrying around a purse and wearing heels! i guess i just feel like more and more of the female "role models" of our society are getting slimmer and slimmer, and look more like prepubescent boys than actual women. Doesn't this send a bit of a false message to the youth that having curves is undesirable?

I say, whatever turns you green. It's not my cup of tea, but I married my cup of tea. She is far from androgynous.

I think its not a bad phase for fashion. I dont think there's anything wrong with androgyny, so there's nothing wrong with it being broadcast a lot. I think if this helps normalize the idea of "there's nothing a girl can't do" or even "its okay for a boy to play with dolls or wear a dress" I'm cool with it. i want people to feel more okay with themselves, and i don't know how this could take away from that.

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Statistical_Anomaly

Androgyny: Soooo hot right now!

Writer17

Personally, I like my males to be masculine, thanks. But if that's the guy you like, then go for it.

Statistical_Anomaly

Jennifer

I was here the last time it was "hot." I would say I've missed it a lot. God bless the androgynes. God bless Antony. (Heard of him?) I will always love David Bowie's dresses.

seedeypete

my ideal mate is masculine and feminine combined. like me. maybe androgyny is a safe way for "straight" people to act on their true desires to be bisexual. maybe within the science of human nature is to be attracted to whomever we want and androgyny allows it in a judgemental society

applegrass

Meh. Gender role reversal has always been considered sexy (tho albeit a smidge risqué)... almost as sexy as gender itself. Androgyny is simply more of the same, just more ambiguous. It is what it is.

Mistral

Statistical_Anomaly

zamfir

I say, whatever turns you green. It's not my cup of tea, but I married my cup of tea. She is far from androgynous.

socule

Androgyny: Soooo hot right now!

Personally, I like my males to be masculine, thanks. But if that's the guy you like, then go for it.

I was here the last time it was "hot." I would say I've missed it a lot. God bless the androgynes. God bless Antony. (Heard of him?) I will always love David Bowie's dresses.

my ideal mate is masculine and feminine combined. like me. maybe androgyny is a safe way for "straight" people to act on their true desires to be bisexual. maybe within the science of human nature is to be attracted to whomever we want and androgyny allows it in a judgemental society

Meh. Gender role reversal has always been considered sexy (tho albeit a smidge risqué)... almost as sexy as gender itself. Androgyny is simply more of the same, just more ambiguous. It is what it is.

I say, whatever turns you green. It's not my cup of tea, but I married my cup of tea. She is far from androgynous.

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