Quote Originally Posted by tiffanyjo89 View Post

This applies the other way as well. It's just a matter of having and owning a presentation. You don't have to be like a model or even like a lot of the actresses to be seen as female. If you didn't see any of the upper body, and only saw some legs in coveralls underneath a car you might think "man" but if you saw a pair of bare shaved legs wearing a pair of short shorts leaned over the fender of a car with only a little glimpse of the upper body, you'd probably think "woman," why? Cause we are taught that short shorts and shaved legs are a feminine trait that women display, despite the fact that working on cars is still (at least in a fair amount of areas) seen as mostly as masculine trait.
And I think that "cues" like this go a huge way toward "passability" in a lot of situations! It just isn't "one thing" that someone notices at first glance that "genders" you,it is a combination of "things".And one "obviously female" thing really can carry more weight than the other "things",a casual glance observes.Friday PM,as I was driving home for the weekend,I had a dress malfunction so my pretty pink bra was exposed to the Southbound truckers as they passed me..They were so focused on the exposed pink bra,that they didn't question the rest of me! Bra,boobs,sunglasses and hair in a clip..must be a girl..