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What is androgyny?
Having behaviors, physical characteristics or habits that suggest both male and female; being of such a nature that it is difficult to assign or infer gender.
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What are the disadvantages to androgyny?
Have you ever met a person that create confusion in your mind? At glance, She is certainly a girl.... Later, only to find out you are wrong that 'she' is actually he! This peo…ple are called androgynous. Androgynous or in short androgyny is a person that contain feminine and masculine traits in a balance state. Androgynous was first state in Greek, which is 'andro' refers to a male traits, and 'gyny' for female traits. Nowadays, androgynous trends were widely spread and accepted by society. There are a lot of androgyny fashion such as men's health care, clothing, hair care, accessories , and etc... That once was dominated by women. However, being androgynous also has it negative sides. For instance, androgynous may be show any negative traits from his/ her masculine and feminine sides. For, male traits dominance, aggressive, strong, and logic thinking. While female, submissive, passive, fragile, and empathy are their traits. For a good androgyny they may absorb a good traits such a being a productive leader, goal- oriented, justice,empathy, compassion and kind. But, for a negative androgyny they may learn the bad side from his/her masculine and feminine sides. For example, he/she may become a too shy, aggressive, very sensitive, obsessive, and stubborn. This will affect his/her social life as they display their weak side. Thus, leading to his/her negative action throughout their life. Others, disadvantage may occur at early stage of their life. In childhood androgyny children may be insulted or teased for his/her appearance thus, affecting his/her emotional state. He/she may feel strange to the society due to his/her personal preference that contradict with social norms. Such as cross-dressing or sexual desires. (MORE)
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Define Androgyny in your own words?
A person who is androgynous has characteristics of both a male and a female. Sometimes, an androgynous person could pass for either a male or a female depending on hair s…tyle, clothing choices, makeup use . . .etc. (MORE)
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When Sandra Bem discusses androgyny is she talking about gender role or gender identity?
Both, gender roles will influence gender identity. the expectations that are place on specific genders which will consequently create the stereotypical gender roles will influ…ence an individual's gender identification. So androgynous individuals who identify with both masculine and famine stereotypical behaviors and "roles" will be more flexible in their gender identity. (MORE)
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What is androgyny and are androgynous individuals higher in emotional intelligence than people who are not?
An androgynous person is a person with strong "feminine" AND "masculine" character features. They are independent leaders, but they know compassion and are warm. Yes, they… have a higher IQ. An androgynous look is when you can not define, whether this person is male or female without seeing their genitals. This group of people may have a different IQ. (MORE)
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What is the difference between androgyny and transvestism?
Androgyny means having qualities that are in the middle of thespectrum of masculine and feminine. Transvestism means men wearingclothing usually associated with women. (Becaus…e there is much lesssocial stigma associated with women wearing men's clothing,transvestism usually refers to men.) (MORE)