I remember everyone calling her androgynous at the time. Looking back, that was an absolutely wild thing for people to think.

  • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I literally thought “Who’s he?” when first opening the picture so I can understand the androgynous descriptor.

    To save others the Google: british “synth pop” musical duo turned solo act.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
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      3 months ago

      You know what, I kinda take that back.

      I feel like it’s more androgynous now than it was then though, because it’s much more acceptable now for guys to wear make-up.

      But like, idk how, 14 years ago or whatever, people saw this and were like “maybe a dude?”

      To be clear I mean this as in “people were sexist back then, because it was used as a pejorative, just because her makeup wasn’t conventional and she wasn’t wearing revealing clothes”
      And
      “I think this aesthetic fuckin rocks and was way ahead of its time”