Since some may still be confused on exactly what Femmasculine is, I’m gonna run through a list of 4 sexy, strong and sassy Femmasculine heroines.
1. Name: Danica Patrick From: American auto racing Femmasculinity: 8.5
Q: What’s more badass than a 23 year-old chick racing in the Indy 500?
A: Her kicking ASS. She got 4th in her first Indy 500 in 2005. Highest woman ever placed (last was 9th in 1978).
Danica Patrick, the smoking hot race car driver from Beloit, Wisconsin, is ramming gender barriers under her rubber tires and peeling out all over them. She wins big for dominating in a man-only zone, but loses an ounce of respect for all the slutty photos.
2. Name: Annie Duke From: World Series of Poker Femmasculinity: 7
I don’t know about you, but I’ve invested hours (more likely weeks) into Facebook poker. For fake money. Annie Duke (mother of 4) is the first ever female bracelet-holder of the World Series of Poker (real money), the biggest boys’ club you can imagine. Annie flopped, turned and rivered her way to the top and we couldn’t be prouder. Root for her bossy, awesome ass on Celebrity Apprentice!
3. Name: Hillary Clinton From: US Government Femmasculinity: 8
Touting political prowess to a degree we’ve never quite seen, our sweet Hillary even possesses minor aesthetic masculine qualities (ok, she just looks manly) and balls bigger than the Wall Street Bull. Her near-miss with the Presidency is probably the closest thing we chicks’ll see to a female President until Oprah decides to run with it. Props, Hil.
4. Name: Rizzo From: Grease Femmasculinity: 9
So she’s a fictional character…doesn’t make her any less Femmasculine, if anything, it allows her to trump the other three on the Femmasculine level. Her short, shaggy brunnette ‘do screams “lesbo” but her pregnancy scare leads us to believe she loves her man’s “Greased Lighting.” A voice 2 octaves below most men’s, Rizzo’s voice counts for at least 3 of her Femmasculinity points.
9 Comments
April 6, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Ryan Seacrest should have been #5. He’s as femmasculine as they come.
April 6, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Now that you’ve invented femmasculinity, will occasionally feeling femmasculated follow?
April 6, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Haha, I’m sure my BF is all over that. I think it happened last night when he opened a jar for me….
April 6, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I think that these women are strong…not sure if i like the term you’re using as there is nothing masculine about these women except that they are groundbreaking for their sex. What about just strongwomen.com? I think you are doing a disservice to yourself and other strong females by creating a word to describe them that implies that they are masculine women.
April 6, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Thanks for the insightful comment, Liza. I understand your point of view, but don’t mean they are necessarily masculine. I only mean they do shatter those gender boundaries and make us think twice about what it is to be a woman or man. Femmasculine is just the opposite of the “girly” stereotype.
April 6, 2009 at 3:11 pm
I’m very surprised I didn’t make this list…
April 6, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Annie Duke amazes me. Normally women play very conservatively and don’t win much.
April 7, 2009 at 9:37 am
I think Danica should GAIN points for her slutty pics. I think it’s great when women take ownership of their sexuality. The fact that she is kicking ass while maintaining her feminine hotness is what I think puts the ‘fem’ in femmasculine. Or however the hell you spell it.
I heart this site, by the way.
Ciao!
May 18, 2009 at 10:31 am
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