Lesbian Stereotypes?

I dont fit any of the lesbian stereotypes at all, (except having guy friends, my guy friends are awesome) but I think, if you want to be obvious, then you should do stuff like, wear rainbow wristbands, stick gay pride flags onto your pencilcase, that kind of stuff. At our age, people don't exactly pay a huge lot of attention to little things like the 'gay smirk'. I would say, you can't get any clearer than rainbows and shiz

 

Definitely:
- short hair
- shirts all the way!!!
- I wear one of those military-look-like-cap all the time
- boyish behaviour (swearing, showing rude gestures xD)
- charismatic and very chatty
- boyish hobbies - tree climbing, fighting with boys (mainly my cousins )
- guy friends, yeah, most of them, though my bf is a girl

 

What's a gay smirk?

 

Yeah I fit allot of them,

Floppy-ish hands,
Gay sounding voice,
Really nice clothing,
Likes to decorate,
Bad at sports,
Hates to get dirty,
A ton of hair and body products,
ect.

And honestly, my gaydar is really good, and I would probably know

 

I fit quite a bit of them.

-Flannels all the way
-Gay smirk
-Lots of guy friends
-HATES dresses, jeans all the way<3
-HATES wearing makeup
-Boyish hobbies
-Boyish personality
-Charismatic
-Flamboyant
-Obsessed with video games
-Obsessed with technical stuff
-Hates gossipping

Some of the things that make me seem stereotypically straight though:
-Long hair
-Loves shopping
-Loves having sleepovers
-High voice
-Some of my best friends are girls
...that's about it, lol.

 

omg ... gay smirk :lol:. I didn't even know what that was and I totally sport one all the time.

- short hair
- the "walk"
- jeans + tshirts are my staple (button down shirts for work)
- love sports (I do a fighting kind of sport)
- pretty darn flamboyant
- hand gestures?? I didnt know that was a sterotype. If it is I for sure got it. I probably couldn't hold a drink level when I talk.

But,
- more girl friends than guy friends

 

I think the only stereotype I fit is I'm a bit of a feminist.
But I have long hair, I like makeup and dresses, I have more girl friends than guys friends, I don't like to get dirty, I don't like sports, etc...

 

I fit a lot of them too
1. I wear shirts all the time
2. Most of my friends are guys
3. I hate makeup
4. I love sports
5. I love videogames
6. I sort of have a boyish personality, but I have my girlish moments
7. i have a deepish voice for a girl ( and it kinda irritates me)

this isn't a sterotype, but I can't understand for the life of me why girls always seem to travel in packs. for example, they always want someone to go into the bathroom with them. I just don't get it.

 

LOL I had no idea about the gay smirk.... I do it sometimes without even knowing it. Comes natural I guess. I don't know if I'm the stereotypical lesbian lets see :

1. T-shirt and jeans kinda gal
2. Don't enjoy heavy makeup and dresses but will put them on if the occasion calls for it. But I tend to avoid attending those.
3. feminist --- I'm not the crazy fanatic femenist who hate all men.
4. Love wearing leather jackets and motorcycle boots
5. My pants are tightly- loose ( if that is even a word) meaning I don't sag to the point you see boxers but my jeans aren't like a second skin on me.
6. I dont wear flannel
7. I did crop my hair short but now it's grown to collar length ( planning on getting haircut).
8. Love playing sports, having rowdy moments, doing tomboyish stuff. Don't mind getting dirty and sweaty.
9. I have both guy and gal friends.

Lol I feel like I'm obvious that I am a lesbian but none of my friends have ever asked
me.

 

I have two tones of voices (I talk naturally high or low), but I guess more often I talk low. I rarely wear makeup. I play softball. And I wear skinny jeans, if that counts... But besides that, I think I seem pretty straight, since I'm pretty girly otherwise. None of it would really set people off about me being bisexual. Not that I care, but that's just how I am.

 

Minis are lesbian? Hey, maybe my military sister isn't straight after all

 

What is it like for a girl to be flamboyant? And what is the "walk?"

And this might not be an answerable question, but why do so many of us happen to fit the stereotypes, when we're just being what feels like normal to us, even when some of us don't know/hang around any other LGBT people to learn habits from?

 

I'm your typical girly-girl who passes as a straight girl, easily. I do the smirk, uhh, sometimes and I have super short nails and absurd confidence (or vanity, perhaps) but that's about it. I'm also an outspoken feminist, and I champion the stereotype of a man-hating feminist (I don't see anything wrong with hating on straight white men, really. It's a valid expression of my frustration at white, masculine heteropatriarchy. )

 

Those are actually very good questions. I'm not sure about lesbians being flamboyant since in my mind some gay males are usually flamboyant and the very femme women are just themselves. I'm not flamboyant I mean we all have our moments of girliness but I'm not sure about flamboyant lesbians.

The "walk" I have heard about that one. I have heard its the way lesbian women usually carry themselves. There's an air of confidence and independence. Head held high, with a certain swagger. Also they are not afraid to make direct eye contact with women. I could be way off on this but this is a mixture of what I think and have heard.

 

I guess I'm what you'd call a 'femme' lesbian-
-never leave house without makeup, and im only 13
-adore skirts and dresses and pink and perfume and jewellery and shoes and other pretty things
-long hair
-generally quite girly I guess
etc.

Yeah, my voice is a lil bit deeper than the average girl but only slightly, and yeah, I have a tonne of guy friends, but noone can tell that I'm gay. Superr annoying):

 

I'm curious about this. Is it really hate or just extreme dislike? What does this level of feminism entail? Also does this mean you do not have male friends? And why only white straight men, since there are more?

Sorry I know that's a lot of questions :eusa_doh: I just want to understand.

 

a lot of it is to do with hormones- you'd be surprised
the slight masculinity you tend to see is due to higher than usual levels of testosterone, i believe.. which also correlates with homosexuality in females