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gender
noncon-
“
forming
I really dislike when products
are gendered that don’t need
to be.. I was in middle school,
and my mom wouldn’t let me
get them [glasses] because
they were in the men’s sec-
tion. They are just GLASSES!
Megan, 20
“
I think the issue is not that
gender-neutral fashion
seems to lean towards ‘boy’
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People are used to putting
things in a box. If it’s not
‘feminine’ then it’s definitely
“
Seeing feminine males is trig-
gering for consumers, where-
as a woman dressed in a suit
clothes, I think the problem boyish. Without knowing that or masculinely can still be
lies in people’s perception of both things can make ONE, taken seriously, if not more
‘boy’ and ‘girl’. without having to separate it. serious. She can just mean
Hannah, 18, from New York Sthefania, 22, from Venezuela business, without it alluding
to her sexuality.
Katya, 20, from South Africa