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[hypatia42]

I have yet to meet the day that could not be made better by cold pizza, pigtails, and makeup. Not every hard day needs all three. Sometimes you just have to pull out the big guns.

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[siriciryon.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the girly part is in the craving. And it's girly to be any level of gourmand - caring what you're eating is not manly in the US, from what I can gather.

It's fun having this conversation with you, because you don't automatically agree, which makes me think about it.

[hypatia42.livejournal.com]

If all you want is for someone to agree with you then I can do that. I generally need to know ahead of time though.

I think the sticking point in conversation here is your definitions. Can you communicate what your definitions of girly and manly are? Is there a reason that it isn't womanly and manly? or girly and ... boyish? The words you are using don't seem to match up in equality.

[siriciryon.livejournal.com]

I much prefer people saying the honest thing than playing yes-man. I tend to develop conversational relationships with people who have interestingly contrasted viewpoints and opinions.

A predilection for silk would be womanly.
Wanting pink everything would be girly.
Ignoring everything to go play video games would be boyish.
Building a deck from scratch without help would be manly.

Why am I using girly vs. manly? Because that's the phrasing I usually hear. No, it's not based in equality, but the system in whose overbearing presence I'm operating isn't really comfortable with the idea of equality and would like to make it go away into some easily categorized hierarchy.