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Oh, totally. I really dig the flirtatious, knows-what-she-wants, oozes sex appeal and femininity type. So much better than the stuttering, blushing types.

For me it always depends on characters' personality, and not on their look. As long as I like their personalities, I don't care if they are masculine or feminine. Also, some of the girls I like can look both ways (Maria Tachibana for example). And some, looking very feminine, have quite a "male" mind.

I have seen both femininexfeminine and femininexmasculine yuri pairings, and I slightly enjoy the femininexmasculine pairing more, but for once, I'd like to see a masculinexmasucline pairing. :D

lol, a story usualy wont focus on them, but sometimes there are evil lesbians, such as Kaname and Momomi.

and @ everyone else- I consider the dominant girl the masculine girl.

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Totally agreed.All yuri are epic win

Wow. I'm half feminine girl half masculine girl..........

I like when there is a masculine, dominant girl who takes controk, but it's nice too when they both are feminine and cute.

I voted for "It doesn't matter" but I prefer "Feminine girl x Feminine girl."



Completely agree.

You had some quote problems there, fixed them :D

Feminine girl x Feminine girl is what I prefer but that shouldn't entail two blushing, shy and hopeless girls such as Hikari or Nagisa of Strawberry Panic. As other's have said, Yaya is the type I dig. We need more girls like her.

All Yuri is win. I don't have preferences. And two masculine girls sounds hot, indeed x] But the important thing is personalities, not looks.




Definetely! I love Yaya, girls like Hikari and Nagisa tire me easily xD

What we need more of is girls like Chikaru, who would cut the melodrama out of a relationship. If she got paired up in SP, she'd know what she would want and take it, instead of beating around the bush for 25 episodes.

Plus, anyone who's as happy and fun as her has GOT to secretly be a BDSM queen. What else do you think she dresses Kizuna and Remon up as when they're alone? ^- ^

Base off of what Keishi said, he/she doesn't consider masculine girl is yuri because masculine girls are like Tomboys as an example already made Haruka...

im not saying Feminine girls can't be Dominate (like Shizuma) but masculine is like another definition of Tomboys

Louchan who started the thread said roughly the same thing.



'Masculine' women aren't men. They're woman who act/dress in a way sociologists or whoever have decided to label 'male'.

In a relationship, straight gay or other, there's bound to be a more dominant partner. I think there's a notion that if it's a hetrosexual couple, the man will be dominant. If it's a lesbian couple where one woman is more 'masculine' looking/acting they will be the dominant one. There for the earlier confusion about Shizuma being masculine or feminine based on either her looks her her dominance is based on assuming that dominant behaviour equal masculinity and vice versa.

lol well still using Shizuma as references she is feminine but dominating
you can call it masculine but still...her other traits aren't relating to mens in anyway but the dominating part... i don't think thats enough to be called masculine...

Voted for Feminine girl x Masculine girl.

I wish there were more anime series that had femme x butch couples (like Haruka x Michiru from Sailor Moon! They are my very favorite anime couple.)

Very interesting to see the various interpretations of feminine and masculine in this thread. It's naturally a big subject of discussion at the transgender support group I attend sometimes, so hearing more impressions of it is always neat to me. In this topic we see a few going purely by looks (masculine = short hair, taller, generally more serious looking, etc.) and others defining masculine as the dominant member of the relationship and feminine as the more submissive, and then there are other variations in between. I even once heard from a lesbian woman (who I and most people would consider to be pretty feminine) that someone considered her very masculine simply because she is a lesbian; going by that (though I wouldn't), all yuri relationships would be masculine X masculine.

As for me, I guess to generalize I would say I like a masculine girl paired with a feminine girl, just because I like couples that complement each other, where one's strong points can make up for the other's weaknesses, and vice-versa. Personally, though, I don't think that has much to do with whether a character is masculine or feminine; no matter what definitions you go by, "masculine" and "feminine" are so broad that any two characters who might be described the same are completely different.

Most important to yuri relationships for me is simply how much of it I can connect with to myself. I tend to hate "love at first sight" relationships just because I've never experienced one that ever ended well, and so I would say they're flat-out unrealistic. Relationships that grow gradually and show a lot of signs of emotional closeness and healthy connection have a lot more appeal to me, as I see them as more believable and thus more inspiring.

<3 definitely

Definitely feminine-feminine. I always think about couples like Shizuma-Nagisa, or even Sumika-Kazama (I don't think Sumika looks "manly" at all)... you don't have to feel like a man, look like one, or have the wish to do so, to feel "dominantly attracted" by girls at all (if you're a girl, of course)...

i like Feminine x Feminine the most, although it's cute when one girl is more shy and the other takes charge more (kinda Uke/Seme but slightly better in my opinion)

in decending order first being my fav: fem x fem fem x masculin masculin x masculin (mainly because i haven't seen any)

I'm tired of the Tomboy and the short girl pairing. I like it when one girl is fiery and straight forward in the bedroom, but more soft hearted and caring in public together. The other girl leads some of their social situations but in bed melts under the slightest of touches.