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    Unhappy High School Turmoil!

    Speaking about other mannerisms. In high school (long before I thought I was a CD) a teacher mentioned that there were differences but he presented it in an embarrassing way for me. He started with me and asked me to look at my fingernails. I spread my fingers and looked at them open palmed. He brazenly announced, "That is how women look at their nails!" I was prtified! He then asked the other the same question and of course all the other boys did it with a fist. I hated that teacher so much! High School is tough enough without the teacher setting you up like that!! Still scarred and looking at my nails like a girl to this day, just not when anyone else is watching!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by daviolin View Post
    Practice makes perfect. I could never cross my legs like a woman all my life. I just worked at it over a long period of time. and wala I can be taught. I hurts for awhile, but its easy now. One word of advice. Don't do it to much, for it causes vericous veins in your legs. I read that somewere. Daviolin
    Actually, varicose veins are generally hereditary or related to being seriously overweight, diabetic, or pregnant. But you're right about moderation; change positions often. I have to confess that I don't understand how some here can't cross their legs (my guess would be legs that are too thick), or why others see it as an inappropriately femmy thing. Ever watched the men in suits on talk tv shows? I find the typical male habit of splaying the knees outward (or parking one ankle atop the other knee) to be more or less repulsive and an expression of an unconscious desire to occupy and dominate physical space.

    The classic feminine position is actually with the ankles crossed to one side.
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    I remember watching "A League of Their Own" In the scene when they are at the etiquet school, the woman instructing them has them cross their ancles and put their knees together. This is what I've tried to emulate.
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    I can cross my right leg over my left with no problems, in fact it's my natural sitting position. But oddly enough I can't cross my left leg over my right without major discomfort.

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    I used to never be able to cross my legs like a lady and it wasn't my muscles, it was my thighs where too big. Now that I've lost weight and go to the gym my legs cross nicely. But that's just me.
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    I can cross my legs easily and always did so quite naturally, until my favourite woman colleague told me last year that sitting like that exascerbated back problems, so I stopped. And to give her credit, I've had a lot less trouble with my back since.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tracii G View Post
    Losing weight helped me be able to cross at the knees with ease.
    Slimming down has helped me in this area as well.

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    When I was a teen I had to go to cotillion classes to learn how to be a "gentleman". In this class we were told that a man crosses his legs in the style we now think of as feminine. To do the other way was not polite and was not what a gentleman did. A lady was to cross her legs at the ankles only and bring them under her chair with the knees together. To do otherwise was not lady like. This was taught to us as the way a person of class would present themselves.

    I remember when I was very young that many men crossed the legs the feminine way. It was accepted as normal.

    I am glad I went to the classes now. They taught us ballroom dancing, how to use the proper forks and dishes, how to dress and how to appear as if you were learned in the social graces. I did pay attention to what he taught the young ladies while I was there too. In fact I wanted so bad to sit on their side of the classroom.

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    I've always been able to cross my legs but what I can't do is the parking one ankle atop the other knee like some men do as Acastina pointed out. If I try my upper leg just sticks up and won't go level.

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    I used to be able to cross my right knee over my left, but was never comfortable doing the opposite. After the knee injuries, I can't cross either knee over the other leg without tremendous pain. So I just sit with my knees together when I feel like being girly. It requires a conscious effort, though.
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    You have to remember GG's learned to cross their legs from the time they was little girls?

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    Saffron that second pic is exactly how the young lady in the salon was sitting and she looked so feminine! As other have said, guys can and do sit crosslegged but if you wish to sit in a most feminine way theknees togeether claves at an angle is it! Thanks for get picutres!

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    I normally sit with my legs crossed half the time.

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    One important thing to remember is that not all GGs can cross their legs either. You just do what they do, cross at the ankles, or sit with your knees together when your legs are under a table.

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    I've got to agree that being in shape helps with leg crossing. I've just lost 30lb and I'm now a uk size 14 And here I sit in a skirt and heels legs crossed. bliss!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheryl T View Post
    I used to be able to but now with a hip problem it's not possible anymore. Now I just cross my ankles when I sit.
    That works and your pose in your avitar is very feminine.

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