Before I begin, I would like to state that I am in no way trying to insult the Asian race. I have the utmost respect for Asians and despite how white-washed I am, I love my culture.

One thing that I've noticed about Asians (and by Asians I mean koren, Chinese and Japanese. Viets and Filipinos don't seem to apply to this. Especially not Filipinos cause they're just like a whole other race all together. More on that later) is that sometimes certain individuals' genders are quite questionable. By questionable I mean, "WTF! He's actually a girl? Though he was a guy!" or vise versa. Now I don't know about you, but that statement of utter shock has flown through my head many times, especially while I was in Hong Kong.

While on a family trip to Hong Kong, my sister and I were riding on the subway when a girl walked into our compartment. After several minutes, my sister nudges me and mutters "hey, look at that person over there. The one that just walked in, standing in front of the door."
"Yeah, what about?"
"Is that a girl or guy?"
"Girl, duh."
"No, it's a guy."
Bewildered and thinking that my sister needed her eyes checked (after all, her prescription is over 1000, she's legally considered blind) I took another look at the girl and after awhile I realized my sister was right, she was actually a he.
He had straight hair to his jawbone that framed his face which had small, girl-ish features, he was wearing a loose, low v-neck shirt (the kind more commonly seen on girls), intensely skinny jeans, carrying a shoulder bag slung over one shoulder like a purse, and I swear it looked like his nails were done. Is it any wonder I thought he was a girl?
After that incident, my sister and I started playing "subway game #2: girl or guy?"

So what is it about Asians that make their gender so ambiguous? I'm thinking that it is...
1) The fact that asian girls have barely-there breast
2) Many male and female fashion items are interchangeable.
3) Fashions include deep v-necks, long, baggy shirts (which hide the barely-there breasts), scarfs, cute hats, baggy button-up shirts.
4) it is fashionable for girls in Eastern Asia to sport short hair cuts
5) it is fashionable for guys to have hair at cheek length.
6) Many asian guys are slender.
7) Asian facial features can be described in one word: small
8) It's fashionable for girls to dress like guys.


Thanks to Melodie for giving me the idea to write about this phenomenon waaaaaaaaayyyyyy back, long time ago.

P.S. the person in the picture is a girl. Mindfuck, eh?