unfeminine

avoid this vague, self-contradictory cultural stereotype. A woman's clothes, behavior, words, feelings, and thoughts are, by definition, feminine because a woman is wearing them, saying them, feeling them. Words like womanly/unwomanly, manly/unmanly, feminine/unfeminine, masculine/unmasculine, ladylike/unladylike, and gentlemanly/ungentlemanly are based on cultural, not biological, expectations. Language should not underwrite this illogic. The only truly unfeminine things are those things biologically reserved to men. Replace the unhelpful and inexact word unfeminine with descriptive adjectives: cold, hard, selfish, abrupt, analytical, direct, competent, logical, etc. These adjectives can apply equally well to a man and are not synonyms for unfeminine but rather reflect the cultural spin on this word.