Masculine

Yesterday I was chatting online with guy on gay.com and the person asked if they could ask me a personal question. The question was: are you masculine?

I was a bit flummoxed by the question because it was something I never really asked myself. I guess I would be in somewhere in the middle because I am not overly macho, and I am not nelly queen. I am just me. I don't butch up my persona around certain people to fix in, but I do act a bit campy around friends who know that I am just having a laugh. A couple of minutes went by before I finally answered -- yes.

What is masculine? I am masculine by definition because I am biologically male, but would I be considered less masculine since I don't follow socially gender roles?

I decided to ask this guy the same question, and his response was that he was "very masculine." I was curious and asked what made him very masculine only receive "because I am man" as a response. I wasn't sure exactly what that meant but I didn't want to delve deeper because it may have been a touchy subject for him. In college, someone told me a story of male friend of their's who had boyfriend but didn't considered him gay because he was the "man" of relationship. Interesting, huh?

What about this feisty drag queen:

would she be considered masculine, even in long blond wig?

So here is the question, would you consider yourself masculine? This is a question for everyone (male, female, straight, gay, etc..). Leave a comment.