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gender vague

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gender vague (comparative more gender vague, superlative most gender vague)

  1. Alternative form of gender-vague
    • 1993 June 22, Susan Eisenhour, “Gender Discrimination in publishing (was Re: What is this Book ??)”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
      LeGuin published a short story in Playboy and was asked to use just initials--Mid 60s I think. Andre Norton is a gender vague name. It took me years to find out that she was a she.
    • 2005, K. Mezur, Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness, →ISBN:
      When those onnagata gender acts representing that idealized beauty are ravaged, the figure that emerges is chaotic and unbalanced, it's gender vague and ambiguous.
    • 2017, Joanne Leung, The Book of Transgender in Hong Kong: Gossip Boys & Girls Book:
      Nowadays, clothing and fashion has become more gender vague.