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Femboy. Femboy (/ ˈfɛmbɔɪ / ⓘ) is a slang term that refers to males, usually cisgender, who express themselves with traditionally feminine behaviours, or—especially in the variant spelling femboi —to LGBTQ people of any gender identity who affect a "soft" masculine look. [1] As an internet aesthetic, this may be through the use of ...
Effeminacy or male femininity[1][2] is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. [3] These traits include roles, stereotypes, behaviors, and appearances that are socially associated with girls and women. Throughout Western civilization, men considered effeminate have faced ...
Lesbian feminism. Lesbian Butch/Femme Society march in New York City's Gay Pride Parade (2007). Butch and femme (/ fɛm /; French: [fam]; [1][2] from French femme 'woman') [3] are masculine (butch) or feminine (femme) identities in the lesbian subculture [4] that have associated traits, behaviors, styles, self-perception, and so on. [5][6] This ...
Bishōnen (美少年, IPA: [bʲiɕo̞ꜜːnẽ̞ɴ] ⓘ; also transliterated bishounen) is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man of androgynous beauty. This word originated from the Tang dynasty poem Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup by ...
The Tomboy, 1873 painting by John George Brown. Tomboy is a term referring to girls or young women with masculine traits. It may include wearing androgynous or unfeminine clothing and engaging in physical sports or other activities and behaviors usually associated with boys or men. [1]
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste and, in a broad sense, incorporates the philosophy of art. [1] Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the ...
Feminist aesthetics is a tool for analyzing how art is understood using gendered issues. [4] A person's gender identity affects the ways in which they perceive art and aesthetics because of their subject position and that perception is influenced by power. [5] The ways in which people see art is also influenced by social values such as class ...
Queer art, also known as LGBT+ art or queer aesthetics, broadly refers to modern and contemporary visual art practices that draw on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and various non-heterosexual, non- cisgender imagery and issues. [1][2][3] While by definition there can be no singular "queer art", contemporary artists who identify their ...