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There are different styles of crossing your legs. If you put one knee over the other, that style is often seen as feminine. Compare this with putting one ankle over the other knee (so the top leg is roughly flat) and that is seen as the masculine way.
I do both. Which one depends on the situation.
Lmfao what
One knee over the other is feminine? That's fucking wild because I do it, my brother does it, my dad does it and my mom doesn't.
Guess I better start wearing a kilt and "sitting like a real man" lmfao
It's totally a thing, at least in public perception. For example, in Fortnite, there's an emote called "Have a seat." Here's two of my skins doing it: https://i.ibb.co/Fb9BRS9J/IMG-20251109-155653-COLLAGE.jpg
Notice anything? Spike and Chun-Li do totally different animations because they have different gender presentations.
What the flip
Oh well just another thing that masculinity is wrong about.
It's just about bone structure at the hips, it's more comfortable for us to sit legs apart.
I don't pay attention to be honest. But now I might
You probably have a higher q angle than usual for men which changes your preferred sitting position, it's not that big a deal.
If projecting an air of masculinity is important to you, perhaps? There's a lot of subtleties that we socially and often unnoticed project, just ask the trans community.
Ugh, yet another set of social norms to camouflage with.
It’s ridiculous and stupid, I know, but it comes from some pretty basic biology.
Depending upon size/thickness of a person’s thighs, it can be pretty impossible to put one knee over the other without squishing your dick and balls either on top of your legs or tucked underneath them. Wearing tight brief-style underwear, this can lead to situations where someone tries to cross their legs like this and inadvertently squishes their balls - a pretty uncomfortable circumstance in my own experience. Thus people with male genitalia (usually men) tend to prefer to cross their legs with the ankle over the knee to allow their genitals to ‘breathe’ and not be all squished up.
People with vaginas (usually women) in Western societies are also far more likely to wear skirts or dresses. In order to prevent someone having a peek at their underwear (or lack thereof) while wearing a skirt/dresses and sitting, these people are more likely to put one knee over the other.
Again, attempting to measure masculinity or femininity by this one preference is utterly stupid, but there are reasons why this behavioural pattern has become commonplace in Western societies. I (cis man) tend to do both in different circumstances; usually dependent upon weather, underwear and outer clothing I’m wearing.
I guess I can't stand briefs because I need the extra room. So when I cross my legs, junk just falls as it should and no squish.
Plus if I do the ankle cross my foot always falls asleep. That's typically a better way to make a fool of myself.
Imagine being so insecure that you are worried about how you cross your legs when you sit. People are so fucking weird
I am always cowboy style, could not fathom sitting like I wear a skirt.
The real reason it's my stuff gets upside down and it's too warm in the pants woman style.