Words commonly used to describe masculinity and femininity, what do you think about this?

[Suede (8)]

Just a random question, I was googling about this on the internet and I found an article showing this: (edited* I wrote too much and it was annoying to read)

Words commonly used to describe femininity:

dependent

emotional

passive

sensitive

quiet *

graceful

innocent

weak

flirtatious

nurturing

self-critical *

soft

sexually submissive

accepting

Words commonly used to describe masculinity:

independent *

non-emotional *

aggressive (sometimes*)

tough-skinned *

competitive (sometimes*)

clumsy

experienced

strong

active

self-confident

hard

sexually aggressive

rebellious *

Link to the article: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/sexual-orientation-gender/gender-gender-identity

Most of all I found this funny, what do you think? which of these words would you say describe you? (for me I marked them with an *)

[MC Dusters]

Tests say i'm approx 90% fem and 10% mas. I can agree with these on fem list -

emotional,

passive,

sensitive,

quiet

innocent

nurturing

self-critical

soft

sexually submissive

accepting

On mas list - competitive, active. Big generalisation, but for someone with % as mine, pretty accurate.

[m4rble]

I think the words used to describe women are a bit more likeable overall but they tend to paint women as weak, submissive, and irrational. I don't think being described as, "emotional," is inherently positive or negative but when it's applied to women it's often implied to mean "emotional and therefore not rational," which is a negative thing. Unemotional as applied to men can be negative or positive depending on the context. Ironically, unemotional when applied to women is also often seen in a negative light. Overall, it seems people like women but they deem them incompetent.

[Kuebiko]

Yo, I came across this article in the MIT Technology Review several days ago. It's basically about how a few mathematicians showed clearly that language is actually really sexist, which also plays into gender stereotypes and stuff.

[LuckofTheChuck]

On 8/15/2016 at 7:00 PM, Suede (8) said:

Just a random question, I was googling about this on the internet and I found an article showing this: (edited* I wrote too much and it was annoying to read)

Words commonly used to describe femininity:

dependent

emotional

passive

sensitive

quiet *

graceful

innocent

weak

flirtatious

nurturing

self-critical *

soft

sexually submissive

accepting

 

Words commonly used to describe masculinity:

independent *

non-emotional *

aggressive (sometimes*)

tough-skinned *

competitive (sometimes*)

clumsy

experienced

strong

active

self-confident

hard

sexually aggressive

rebellious *

 

Link to the article: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/sexual-orientation-gender/gender-gender-identity

 

Most of all I found this funny, what do you think? which of these words would you say describe you? (for me I marked them with an *)

I would be mostly masculine then.