I keep seeing Taiwanese young people and wondering if they are male or female. This is weird. Androgyny seems to be a big thing here. Boys are dressed like fashion models and wear lots of pink shirts. Some girls are wearing baggy boy’s clothing. Most Asian girls have small breasts so often I can barely see them poking out of their baggy boys shirts. I tend to distinguish gender through breasts, if there are no other signs. Lots of young people here have androgynous hairstyles, heavily gelled with hair care products.
I am wondering why so many girls dress like boys here. Someone told me there is a rising number of gays in Asia, or rather that it is more acceptable to be gay so they do not have to hide it. Are these boyishly dress girls lesbians? Or is it just a popular fashion style to dress like a boy?
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I am not really sure WHY they are dressing the same and stuff, BUT I do have a better way to tell them apart other than breasts. There is of course the Adam’s Apple, but that is only good from the front. The best way from the front OR the back is the shape of the arms. Check this picture out:
http://www.secondtype.com/skeleton.htm
I had read about this fact years ago and found it to be totally true. It is just one of those things like the fact that your foot is the same size as your forearm and that your height is the same as from finger tip to finger tip with your arms spread.
Anyway, you can tell a woman from a man by their arms because a woman’s forearms tend to flair away from their body where as a man’s tend to be straight. Now, I am not talking about a bend in the elbow, I mean the way the arm goes into the elbow. The site above describes it as “…women's arms form a bent "carrying angle" at the elbow, while men's "carrying angle" is straight.”
You can see the angle in the picture in the link above, but it is best to just check it out on groups that are easy to tell apart. It will take some time to get used to, but it is an obvious thing after only a short while of looking.
Anyway, that is just some random crap that I know.
I was in Togo, West Africa the younger children all have short hair because they are black people. The boys and girls dressed the same, looked the same, one girl said,
"Can't you see that is a girl?"
I said no,
"She has an ear ring, so she is a girl."
They put ear rings on even the small babies as a way to tell the difference.
I see that societies as they become more advanced lose their desire to look like a boy or a girl. I personally love when men try to look like men and women try to look like women.
When a person does not at like either a male or female, I think they are confused with their sexuality. They wish to be the oppossite, or something ike that.
No doubt though Asia is genetically more prone to be gay than any other continent on the planet.
it's mostly just a phase and popular thing to do here.
Hi Mira:
When HL was in school, the girls and boys each had their own haircut. Every girl had the same cut and every boy had the same boy haircut. It's relatively recently that many of them have been allowed to have their own hairstyles. To me it's almost like the 80's in the U.S., in that some of the styles look like that. Since many students still wear uniforms, it's easy to see why they would dress up when they're out of school. If you really want to know if they're gay, why not ask? If nothing else, it would be interesting to see their reactions to the question.
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