Probably because many of us tend to be a bit more artistic than guys, or we show it more. We like cute, this style of printing is rather cute and expressive of the writer's mood! I've seen older women who still use a bubbly style of handwriting and printing.
Me, I always get comments on how neat my printing is, I knew from a younger age that I want to be an engineer. One of my counselor/adviser's commented on my "cute printing" style, she told me if I wanted to be an engineer that I should learn to write like one. I did have really cute seventh grade girl handwriting both cursive and printing.
Now I use either an architectural or Civil Engineering style printing, which everyone seems to like and comment on! Since I've adopted this print style even my cursive has tightened up, it doesn't look like modified printing like it used to.
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Why do 95% of guys have this specific sort of handwriting?
Girls are more prone than boys to social copycatting, meaning deriving their values and hobbies from those whom they perceive as superior to themselves. This leads to a lower diversity in many traits, as more girls tend to take up certain behaviors based on what those around them do, rather than on their own internal, socially unaffected preferences.
I think this phenomenon is particularly bad in modern times because 1) There's a lot more communication between people, so women can become very homogenized, and 2) People today are exposed to more estrogenic substances, making them engage more in the "toxic" aspects of femininity. Progesterone is the true female hormone.
Bubbly/ very rounded handwriting with low height characters are usually associated with being girly. This belief/ perception is not completely based on real facts, but I guess media through the ages have portrayed women having such handwriting. Particularly print media. I know women who have varying handwritings, but one thing I find common, good or bad handwriting, the characters tend to be somewhat rounded in cases. Also, they tend to have the handwriting that most teachers have, cursive, upright, and comprehensive.
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I have this one girlfriend whose writing is so bubbly that you can't even read it -- even though it's perfectly, relentlessly neat.
Like, imagine a lowercase 'a', grade-school style, big circle+stick... right?
Ok, now, make the stick like 5 percent taller (not even kidding) and that's her 'd'.
Or 5 percent taller on the lower side, and that's her 'q'.
Or take out 5 percent of the top of the circle, and that's her 'u'.
Her whole handwriting looks like 00010101101000010101... lol it's like secret code, or something. Cannot read but awesome.
My handwriting, of course, is giant sloppy overly-demonstrative super-slanty extrovert handwriting that does not give one toss about the strictures of ruled paper.
But... dude, if you REALLY want to see uniform handwriting, just look at the writing of East Asian immigrants who came to any English-speaking country as teenagers or later. ALL EXACTLY THE SAME.
I mean, this should make sense, if you think about (1) the fact that it takes lots of time and repetition for handwriting to become messy in the fisrt place, and (2) the fact that Chinese/Korean/Japanese students grow up having to make perfect little c haracters, in perfect stroke order, inside perfect little boxes on perfectly proportional little paper.i write like a girl because growing up, i have two older sisters that would hit me if my handwriting is sloppy or ugly when they check my homework almost every night, sometimes they tear up my homework/handwritten essays and scold me by saying "how do you expect your teacher to read this crap? -hits my hand, arm, or pokes my head non-stop while scolding me- do it over again, idiot!" then i have to rewrite everything until it looks neat and to the way they approve. after years of torture by 2 sisters, writing like a girl just became a habit and a few guys would make fun of me for writing like a girl during high school when they pass down the homework back to me from the front rows, sometimes when the teacher was giving the test papers back to me they would think i'm a girl because not only does my handwriting looks girl, my real name is also a unisex name lols.
I always envied girls with this sort of a handwriting. If I write something down without extra care I can barely read it myself after a while xD No idea how my teachers managed to. It still looks kinda "girly" but way way messier than the type you showed above. Funny enough I got a completely different handwriting if I write something in Russian or German/English.
And yes, I wrote down the first two senteces of Metro2033 in Russian and German just for demonstration XDMy handwriting is terrible, this is cute, no problem with it :). But it's true I have seen a lot of girls when I was still in high school with very similar handwriting except the f's look quite weird to me. why not just 1 line with one across the second line makes it look weird.
I like writing a bubbly fun style. and yes i do my a's like on the computer and dot my i's with a bubble. got a problem?
I don't see whats wrong with it. i write similar to this handwriting:doesn't look like my handwriting
I actually agree with the asker I am not American and a lot of females I know write like this, except me of course I have notoriously bad handwriting that I have been embarassed for like all of my life. lol but yes a lot of women or girls do write in that way kind of short stocky and very curvy haha
Mostly in general, and is not the 95% is around the 75% or less.
Writing has to do with our behaviour, our believes, the way we are, our character.Mine looks nothing like that. But I get what you mean, some of my friend's write similarly. It might be from what they've been taught or just how they are. The art of writing is interesting. They say they can tell what kind of person you are.
Example: narrow spacing - you can't stand to be alone. You tend to crowd others and be intrusive.
wide spacing - you enjoy your freedom and don't like to be overwhelmed or crowded.
It's theory, but it's interesting.Must be an American thing. Women's handwriting looks more like this here.
Schools teach cursive handwriting here.hmm i know a few people with that. i wouldn't say 95% lol, but our writing does tend to be a bit 'bubbly'.
u know, if u were to actually investigate the story behind different handwritings, you'd b fascinated.When I was in school, I learned handwriting to mean cursive.
The samples I am seeing here now are what is know as printing. But I see that the current definition of handwriting has thrown them together.Then sure I'm in the minority. 😂
As to answer your question, I guess it's because it's easy (it doesn't require as much time as 1st grader handwriting) and readable.People who write with larger letters want to be noticed, while people who write small want to be unnoticed. And I tend to write messy because I write fast.
That is really funny cos its true. I write in all capital letters though so mine is sortof distinct. I've met a few people who write like that - but with VERY different handwriting than me.
This is mine. I don't personally think they look that much the same.
No that's not an American thing. Practically every girls can write the classic alphabet with that sort of 'girly' handwriting. I bet no guy ever writes like this!
Why do her f's look like r's with a line through them? The rest of this handwriting is pretty common yeah but my main concern is that this girl can't spell.
That handwriting.. I used to have it in high school lol.
I just think that's a neat handwriting so many go for it since girls are usually not always neat.I know 2 girls that write like that haha
I was very good at copying handwritting styles... writting fake notes and signing them to get people out of class
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