Femininity Tropes



"Wedding Peach: "I stand for poofy dresses, flowers, ribbons, and all that is girlie! Monologue Attack!""

- Wedding Peach Abridged

While feminine simply means any attribute associated with women, culturally the term tends to encompass things like beauty, grace, elegance, and ways women are often expected to carry themselves. Unfortunately the latter often involves things like demureness and timidness, which has also led to women being expected to be weak. Yet that isn't always the case. In Real Life, and in fiction, it's sometimes accepted that women can be feminine, yet still strong.

And of course some women take advantage of these associations.

Regardless of the exact form (such as whether one is "girly" or "mature"), these are the tropes about femininity.

Contrast Tomboy, Masculinity Tropes.

Related:
 * The Beautiful Tropes
 * Dresses, Gowns, and Skirts
 * Princess Tropes
 * Purity Personified

Tropes

 * Acceptable Feminine Goals
 * All Girls Like Ponies
 * Beauty, Brains, and Brawn (the first is feminine)
 * The Chick (a character in a team with traits considered feminine)
 * Classy Cat Burglar
 * Coy Girlish Flirt Pose
 * English Rose
 * Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy
 * The Fashionista
 * Femme Fatale (femininity used for dark purposes)
 * Fille Fatale
 * Feminine Women Can Cook
 * Femininity Failure
 * Fragile Flower
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Graceful Ladies Like Purple
 * Grande Dame
 * Harp of Femininity
 * High Class Call Girl (being feminine is part of the job)
 * Housewife
 * Innocent Flower Girl
 * In Touch With His Feminine Side
 * Kicking Ass in All Her Finery (in that the lady still looks and dresses feminine)
 * Kindly Housekeeper
 * The Lady's Favour
 * Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
 * Lipstick and Load Montage
 * Lipstick Lesbian
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
 * Meekness Is Weakness
 * Mega Twintails
 * Parasol of Prettiness
 * Pink Means Feminine
 * Princess Classic
 * Princess Phase
 * Proper Lady
 * Real Men Wear Pink (Defying the notion that anything feminine ruins masculinity)
 * Real Women Don't Wear Dresses (femininity is treated as something that signifies a weak character)
 * She Cleans Up Nicely
 * Silk Hiding Steel
 * Southern Belle
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl
 * Town Girls (the femme one)
 * True-Blue Femininity
 * Vanity Is Feminine
 * Vasquez Always Dies (the un-feminine lady is often doomed)
 * Women Are Delicate
 * Yamato Nadeshiko