- Joined
- Feb 25, 2021
It's the same as online. Stephanie keeps using dollmaker avatars that she designs to be very feminine, with a little facial hair if you're not on mobile and you enlarge the avatar. This is the Internet: if you want strangers to assume you're a dude, choose profile pic and handle accordingly. She's doing it on purpose.She doesn't make it easy: she wears dumpy auntie clothes, talks in the female range, and has a feminine haircut. I doubt a crack head is going to read all the buttons on her hat like it's some alt text on one of her Blue Sky selfies to find out her pronouns.
In person, she's also actively self-sabotaging. Her dumpy and pendulous form and her lower-class frumpy clothes are the path of least resistance, but she keeps spending money on more pastel tees.
Her bangs/fringe are a high-upkeep hair choice: unless her dad is trimming those every two weeks when he cleans her apartment, she's making appointments and paying someone regularly to keep her bangs from growing out. (You or I could trim them in the mirror, but we've seen her patches.) It's a bad haircut, but it's not the ponytail of total NEET apathy; she's choosing this on purpose, over and over again.
Same with the makeup: easier and cheaper not to wear it at all, but she's putting time and effort into "performing femininity."
However, if Stephanie stopped these behaviors, she'd still read as female. I wonder if she's wearing bangs and grandma tees and clumpy eyeliner specifically so she can say "obviously they don't understand my genderqueer bxxyism," and not have to confront the reality of "I don't pass because I am an overconfident sack of potatoes."
"Ugh; I didn't want to pass anyway; that term is soo enbyphobic." *eats Cool-Whip from container*