The woman described in Sting's "Fields Of Gold" has, for me, an idealized femininity about her. What do we know about her? She's assertive about what she wants from her man and she's appreciative when she gets it. She recognizes and responds to her lover's romantic cues. She's a mother. She has long hair. (That's not necessary, but—damn it—it sure helps.) She has given herself to love and to a bond so strong that even the heavens are jealous. (And that last bit is masculine, too, but we're here for feminine today.)
I think a feminine woman is free to be herself. She's free from society's expectations. She's free from her own insecurities (and she may well have a few). She's never trapped by her man, both because she would never allow it and he instinctively knows it isn't necessary In the first place.
She gives love and time freely, and wants and graciously accepts these things from others just as well. She's involved in her community and is motivated by her desire to make it a better place for her family. Her parents, her children, her siblings, and her extended family and friends hold her in high regard and are a tiny bit jealous of her man because he gets to spend more time with her than they do.
Despite her being free and treasuring her freedom, she needs and allows herself to be taken, to be swept away. She knows this only strengthens her relationship with her man and contributes to making them both a better version of themselves.
She can do and be all this and still wear pants if she wants to. (And I mean that literally and figuratively.)
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In my perspective a feminine woman to me is someone who embraces her womanhood. She doesn't feel the constant need to compete with men in every single area in life in the name of equality because she knows men and women have different qualities in some areas and she embraces that, however if she is good at and likes some of the things men are good at she goes ahead and do it anyway and doesn't feel like it affects her femininity or feel the need to prove herself either.
They are elegant and even if they do stereotypically manly things they don't lose that femininity no matter what they do. She's also a confident woman who loves her body and takes care of herself and also embraces her sexuality. She's often a bit of a superwoman handling her kids really well while at the same time handles other things (like a job etc), so in other words she's very skilfully efficient.
She's genuinely caring, nurturing, respectful and empathetic, and puts her family first over material things.
Okay, femininity will always have a technical definition, but to me femininity (as I came up) was being able to run a household and a career, to be nurturing but capable of handling emotional turmoil like a pro, to be able to wear lipstick and still be humble enough to know that it doesn't define you beyond expression.
Something like that, ya know?
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That there is your modern feminine woman
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"Feminine" is a term that was intended to describe any physical or personality trait that is normal or typical of a woman. Some examples:
- long hair
- long lashes
- long nails
- short in height
- big boobs
- wide hips
- small feet
- submissive attitude
- shy/timid
- optimistic nature
- having interests in cute animals, flowers, rainbows, the color pink, or anything else sweet and beautiful
Nowadays, these things can no longer be considered "feminine" (by definition), because not as many women conform to thesw gender-specific stereotypes. People are also starting to use the term differently. A lot of men use the term "feminine" interchangeably with "attractive" - as if it makes someone less of the gender they are, if they subjectively unattractive to you *rolls eyes*.
Women are guilty of the same thing, just replace the word "feminine" with "masculine".femininity is about being a woman, some may have subjective views about what that means but nobody can change biology and some biological traits are thus feminine and some are not, regardless of what people think, this has not changed in 2016.
I don't know, but I still have the same definition that would've applied for decades: Pleasant, pleasing, girly, long hair, soft, well mannered, supportive, etc.
I'll stick with my girlfriend who is all of the above, everyone else can do whatever they want, though don't get butthurt if what you do is not considered feminine by a random guy like me.I think the traditional definitions of femininity and masculinity are disappearing.
Traditionally they are supposed to be opposites of each other however this was at the epidemy of gender roles and now with those dying out, so are these definitions.When i think about what is feminine I think of nuturing, caring, softness and gracefulness.
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www.girlsaskguys.com/.../q2143909-not-really-sure-how-to-classify-my-relationship-with-a-friends-withFemininity is uhhh... oh who am I kidding? WHO THE HELL KNOWS ANY MORE?
there's no longer such thing as femininity.. feminism has taken that away.. all women now want to be men and its actually disgusting.. i miss the old school soft, delicate, lady-like woman. that is a thing of the past
I think to be attractive to men. dress well and speak well. To be intelligent and smart
In terms of behavior I really don't know... But I think feminity is a woman who is.. proud of being a woman. As lame as this sounds
Isn't "femininity" the smell that comes from the crotch area of a girl's undies?
A social movement in which women want to gain power over men. They want to be the superior race. They want to be better than men. It's not about equality, because we already have equal rights.
In 2016 it means to not take responsibility for a damn thing, be offended by everything, and to always be right even when you're wrong.
For me it's as simple as this. If you are a woman, you're feminine.
-Wears makeup
-Jewelry
-Long hair
-Likes to wear dresses
-Soft skin
-Shaven
-Sweet
-Loyal
-Politefor me when girls have skirts on them, talks like ladies and have some cameltoes
What it always meant.
Evil.Good question...
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