can you tell me how is a woman with a masculine attitude ??

Question

whats the behavior of a woman with a masculine attitude
is it learned or hormonal?

details! please :) thx

IMPORTANT : Please do not use being lesbian or gay or whatever to answer!!

dont link it with homosexuality! i dont consider that in the question!
thanksss!
its a social view!

Answer 1

To answer this question one must believe in the stereotypical characteristics of both men and women. I don't believe in them, however there are some basic truisms to both genders.

Women tend to be concerned with how they feel on the inside and men tend to be concerned with how they feel on the outside. Again, I am being very broad here and obviously this too is a generalization.

So using the above generalization, a woman with a masculine attitude would be someone who was shallow in their emotions, or not able to express them openly and who was more concerned with the tangible than the esoteric.

Using my premise that masculine or feminine characteristics are not limited to any one gender, and erroneously used to label behavior that is neither male or female but human, the above example I give is learned rather than hormonal. Hormones will give you physical characteristics of either gender, but they cannot change the psyche which many times is formed from those around the person such as parents and community.

All of this is different than sexuality which is chemical and has nothing to do with hormones or learned behavior.

Answer 2

Probably a combination of both. Not really 'hormonal', but part of your personality, just who you are. And learned in that you either grew up in an environment that didn't socialize gender roles, or one where masculinity seemed the norm for everyone (i.e. with other masculine women or lots of men), or just learned about it and liked it. That's all, I think.

Answer 3

Good question. Could be caused by alot of different things, ranging from hormones to environmental influences and learnt behaviour. Perhaps potentially if a female is surrounded by alot of male figures in childhood, this could influence the woman's behaviour to some degree. I have noticed this in female friends who grew up with alot of brothers.

Answer 4

learned or hormonal? I really don't know but I really don't know why it couldn't either or both...Has anyone done hormonal studies on masculine women?..like measured their testosterone levels?...I'm sure that there must be a paper somewhere.