What Makes A Woman Feminine?

I recently read that women who lift weights to build muscle are unknowingly (or knowingly) taking away from themselves the very thing that makes them feminine, which is curves and body fat. One of the purposes to lifting weights (at least for me) is to get lean and build muscle. Anyway, this got me thinking about what exactly makes a woman feminine. I think a woman can absolutely still be fit and be feminine.

So, to you, what makes a woman feminine?

 

when she doesn't kill her babies

 

It's that soft tender skin between her thighs, right next to her Twinky.

 

being cis

that's the first prerequisite

 

i always wonder this, like some telltale signs are breasts and lack of facial hair and smaller face generally speaking, but even when woman have the opposite of all those things i just mentioned you can still tell its a girl. you can even tell it in good cross-dressers, there is usually just a way they move or facial expressions that are feminine enough to make you know.
so to get back to answering the op. it is all of those things that either separate them from us, or stereotypicaly separate them from us. that makes them feminine.
and woman that lift weights still have curves. its just than instead of a jug handle they have a u-turn instead.

 

I think it is a combination of many things. From speech, attitudes, views, dress and how they wish to be viewed. I have seen some women all in frills and lace who I do not necessarily see as being feminine and also dressed down in jeans who were.

Possibly more how you carry and represent yourself is a better indicator of perception.

 

I've always asspciated it with the ability to create a home and fill it with beauty and wonderful smells and food.

I guess because my mom was my first exposure to femininity and she created that home for me

I have a friend who keeps raunchy, gang bang porn in her bathroom, and she cusses like a sailor, dresses like a tom boy, and doesnt care who hears her fart. And yet - she always makes me tea and yummy food whenever i go to her house, shes always watering her plants and cleaning stuff with homemade cleaners. And so she seems more feminine than masculine. Plus she's like, really pretty (but fit and muscular)

I dunno really, i think it is mostly subjective

 

Sweetness and softness that is genuine.

 

I definitely agree that taking care of the home and making it a cozy, comfortable place is very much a feminine trait. Intrinsically I think compassion, empathy, being a kind and caring person by nature can also be used to describe a feminine woman. I don't want to gender stereotype here, though, because men can definitely have these traits as well. I've seen masculine men take very good care of their homes.

 

heck yea

 

There is nothing in this world more feminine (or more beautiful) than a woman breastfeeding her infant.

 

estrogen.




really, i'm not sure. i know a feminine woman when i see one, but i'm not really sure exactly what it is that makes her seem that way to me.

 

Some women have the walk, some have all the right feminine gestures but there’s still something missing.

It’s impossible to put into words but I know it when I see it, and I feel it.


Hotwater

 

there is someone at the dollar store in town that i always thought was a guy. dresses like a boy acts like one. has boobs but is a little chunky so no surprise. no facial hair but is kind of young so no surprise there either.
one day i saw the name tag, it was clearly a girls name. voice could go either way. we are talking some "its pat" shit right there. i think we have one of those transvestaylanians working in my town after i take in all the info that i know about feminism.
now it dosnt matter, as long as someone does their job, i dont care what they are or what they do outside of my interaction with them...but i am really wondering.

 

I do mid section exercises all the time, lift weights, ride a horse, can pull a long bow back and split a piece of wood with an arrow. I box, I do push ups, I can pick up a 14kg broadsword and start training.

None of that makes me feminim. Yet I'm the cutest most adorable feminim princess you'll ever know and I still look like a girl should look too.

 

The fishy odor of her underbelly.

 

this is a matter of cultural perspective to which there is no one answer. personally i don't like anyone more for playing a role based on gender. if anything less.
and that goes for any gender, physical or self perceived.

 

The key word that I saw was "feminine." So, I take that as "attractive to men in a sexual way" and anything else would be just a nice person.

 

but that is my definition of feminine....with other adjectives, as well.....My definition has nothing to do with being attracted to feminine females....that would be your definition.

 

Feminine doesn't mean attractive to men in a sexual way though.