The difference is completely subjective due to the nature of gender and things like femininity/masculinity as social constructs, but I will say, there is a difference for a lot of people between being a feminine guy and being a masculine or androgynous guy who also just happens to be flamboyant and maximalist, while still entirely self-perceiving as more masculine or androgynous leaning and trying or wishing to present in a way that they see as reading as such. As a guy who is flamboyant and maximalist but distinctly not feminine, it can be frustrating to see these things conflated.
Again- it’s subjective, everybody’s ideas about what femininity and masculinity look like to them are different, depending on the ideas they’ve personally absorbed- but the distinction matters to some people, and therefore it’s worth noting.









