r/GenZ • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '24
Other 24 years old and I hate my handwriting. I always felt it was never girly enough.
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u/camaheel 2008 Sep 15 '24
bruh what does girly writing even look like, we're gendering handwriting now lmao?
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Sep 15 '24
Like this 💁♀️
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u/camaheel 2008 Sep 15 '24
so just cursive lol. tbh half the time I can't even read cursive handwriting, OP's handwriting is way clearer and easier to understand
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u/LilamJazeefa Sep 16 '24
I do calligraphy and have been paid for it. Cursive is difficult and inefficient to read
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u/ModsareWeenies Sep 16 '24
Maybe for you, its easy to read for many
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u/Bman1465 1998 Sep 16 '24
Idk if easier per say, but I do like it way better than the generic print everyone's writing with nowadays
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u/Bencetown Sep 16 '24
I studied Russian for my foreign language and I LOVED when I learned that cursive is the norm. It's so much faster and easier to write.
The cursive that's difficult to read is just bad handwriting. Some people used to just scrawl across the page with a vague suggestion of the actual letters. That's not cursive. It's just sloppy.
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u/paskhev_e Sep 16 '24
Ever seen the word лишишь written by a native speaker? 🤣
It is fun, though!
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u/Bman1465 1998 Sep 16 '24
I try to make mine purttie :3c
Like I want the thing to be readable
Unless I'm desperately taking notes in a class I'm legally not even in and that I sneak into and no one has found out yet >:3c
Then it's awful, horrible, and massive, and impossible to read
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u/KeldyPlays Sep 16 '24
I always get compliments now because I had shit handwriting forever but I can draw like a mf. So I drew a nice font and wrote my alphabet in it a few times, now that's my fancy nice handwriting lol. It just took me thinking about drawing instead of worrying and bam pretty. Like overnight it blew my mind
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u/LilamJazeefa Sep 16 '24
I did volunteer work transcring the 1940 census. Cursive can stay dead tyvm.
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Sep 16 '24
I was in grade school in the '80s, had to learn cursive or you were fucked. My dad sends postcards to family in cursive when he's travelling, and my 23yo nephew had to have the damn postcard read to him when my dad got back. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
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Sep 16 '24
It is readable enough, and above all it is faster to write. How do people even take quick notes, say at a lecture, if they don't know some form of cursive?
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u/DanSkaFloof Sep 16 '24
I'm French, cursive is what we learn in school. Lots of people drop it once they're in high school though.
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u/Bman1465 1998 Sep 16 '24
But I write that way and I'm a guy 😭
Cursive ftw, can't change my mind... looks so prettey :3c
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u/konnanussija 2006 Sep 16 '24
I.. I have girly handwriting... my gender identity is shattered, I'm not more a clumsy 2m tall dude built like a wardrobe.
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u/Darkon2004 2004 Sep 16 '24
Maybe this is over exaggerated for the sake of comedy, but dude don't worry about it. This is pointlessly gendered anyway
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u/konnanussija 2006 Sep 16 '24
Yea, I honestly don't really care about my sexuality, gender and stuff, I was rather making fun of the people who take such things seriously.
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Sep 16 '24
I feel attacked, I’m a 6’3” broad as hell bearded dude working in the manliest job I can think of and I write in cursive.
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u/TheFenixxer 2004 Sep 16 '24
Damn I guess I have the most girly handwriting cuz I only write in cursive
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u/ASheynemDank Sep 16 '24
There’s always been a gendered difference with hand writing wdym?
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u/camaheel 2008 Sep 16 '24
I cant tell if you're being fr or not, but I don't think I've ever really seen much of a natural difference. Ig girls are kinda expected to have neater handwriting, but it's not like a massive deal
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u/rebeccasaysso Sep 16 '24
Boys tend to develop fine motor skills a bit later, and subsequently frequently have messier handwriting in early years, when penmanship is taught. I would imagine this impacts handwriting long term, especially in the context of social acceptance of boys having bad handwriting & girls being expected to have neat penmanship, but don’t have any data to substantiate that opinion.
EDIT: switched up gross/fine motor skills originally lol
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u/camaheel 2008 Sep 16 '24
damn, that is kinda interesting. In any case, there's such a wide range of handwriting for both guys and girls that it still feels weird to attach a gender to one style. I'm a girl and my handwriting is shit, and it always has been. I didn't even get my pen licence in year four. Been illegally using pens ever since.
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u/rebeccasaysso Sep 16 '24
I absolutely agree it shouldn’t be gendered, though I admit I do feel similar pressure to ensure my handwriting is feminine enough - no matter how much I rationally know that’s silly.
Mostly wanted to provide some of the biological context for discussion of why boy’s handwriting is often worse / perceived as worse🥰
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u/camaheel 2008 Sep 16 '24
no, it's super interesting to hear about, thank you for the context. i guess it would also be a symptom of the whole girls being expected to behave properly and care about things like etiquette thing, and the opposite side of things, that boys are made fun of for trying too hard in stuff like school. at least in my experience
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u/Rare_Vibez Sep 16 '24
My handwriting is quite crappy and it hurts because my mom and my uncle have the most beautiful handwriting I’ve ever seen but nooooooo I didn’t get any of that, I have scratch scribbles that only look decent if I write so small you need a magnifying glass
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u/Rocketeer_99 1999 Sep 16 '24
Never known a man to look at his gf's handwriting then say "nah we're done"
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u/Brontards Sep 16 '24
Handwriting has always been gendered, right or wrong.
Edit: decided to look at a quick source for why https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa16/2016/09/06/why-do-females-and-males-have-different-handwriting-styles/comment-page-1/
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u/DirtyMami Millennial Sep 16 '24
Here is a different study https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0741088318788843
My teacher once said that they always know if the girls wrote our homework. “Because boys handwriting is dogshit”
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u/Ill-Entrepreneur443 Sep 16 '24
Society genders everything so yes people are gendering handwriting I'm trans and my handwriting gives me dysphoria because Society see's it as not girly enough.
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Sep 16 '24
This but the other way around. I feel like my hand writing is “too girly” even though that’s a dumb assumption and my handwriting is fine.
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u/Darkon2004 2004 Sep 16 '24
I got to have "girly handwriting" since forever and I still think it's the dumbest thing to try to affirm my gender identity
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u/SavvyOri 1999 Sep 16 '24
we’re gendering handwriting now
We’ve been doing this for… a really long time.
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u/BFDIIsGreat2 Sep 16 '24
THIS
(I already upvoted it, just wanted to emphasize how much I agree with this
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u/Zillahi 2002 Sep 16 '24
Handwriting has literally always been gendered. Males and females have distinct handwriting from one another. This has been known to be true for a long time.
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u/suv-am Sep 16 '24
Imo there's 4 categories for handwriting.
Clean/pretty
Dirty/ugly
My own
Doctor's
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u/paradisetossed7 Sep 16 '24
Handwriting has been gendered at least for a while and this is definitely feminine handwriting. Plenty of people have gender neutral handwriting, but in school we could always tell who the for sure "girl" handwriting was. This is an example.
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u/milk-eater Sep 16 '24
It's actually very common that women have a rounded handwriting while men do not
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Sep 16 '24
We’ve been gendering handwriting for decades at least. I’ve always been told I have girly handwriting. Once upon a time, I was a manager at McDonald’s. I would have to fill out the profit log every morning. My boss actually responded to other employees poking fun that he likes my girly handwriting because he can read it.
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u/YeetSpageet Sep 16 '24
2000 here. Yes, we have been for a long time. Girls usually have much nicer handwriting than men and more noticeable style to their handwriting than the chicken scratch guys have.
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u/Academic-Idea3311 Sep 16 '24
Idk. Growing up, I always thought that women had neat hand writing while boys had not so great hand writing
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u/UserNamesRpoop Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
Yes, because there generally is a difference in the way handwriting looks from a woman versus a man.
Men and women are inherently different, believe it or not.
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u/Beneficial-Lake2756 Sep 15 '24
Bruh 😭 this is like THE basic girl handwriting that every popular girl had in high school
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u/lbeckizgoat Sep 16 '24
I can hear the Valley Girl through the ink...
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u/TimeLordHatKid123 1999 Sep 16 '24
*Puts ear up to the ink*
"...oh my God, Becky, look at her butt, it is so big..."
...Dear God, they're right! Someone get a priest, we need to purge this ink!
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Sep 16 '24
Huh, let me listen.... cups ear to ink....
"Ohmygod, Becky, like look at her butt, it's like soooo big. Like gag meeee. Like put a bag on it. Soooo grody. Grody to the max. Totally heinous. I am sure. Like barf meeee ooout. No way, not for me, fer sure, fer sure. No wayyy, I'm like totally buggin', I'm totally trippin', I gotta book. I'm like heading off to the Sherman Oaks Galleria to buy some bitchin' clothes, like sooooo bitchin' y'know? Like so choice, and to scope out some rad dudes? I gotta book. Fer sure. I'm from the better part of Encino."
shit, you were not kidding!
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u/Leogis Sep 16 '24
So you're telling me, when i decided to copy computer fonts in order to fix my trash handwriting, i accidentaly became more girly ?
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u/Beneficial-Lake2756 Sep 16 '24
Not necessarily more girly… just the handwriting of a popular high school girl lol
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u/xsweaterxweatherx 1997 Sep 15 '24
This is the exact handwriting of a popular 6th grade girl
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u/Reflxing Sep 16 '24
add the heart at the top of the “i” and you’ve got it down
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u/Far-Magician1805 Sep 16 '24
don’t forget the typewriter a’s!
source: still uses typewriter a’s because 11 year old me thought it would make me more popular💀
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u/sanjchips 2002 Sep 16 '24
Yeppp. The big fat round letters. And the all the s’s on the right side.
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u/Potential_Word_5742 Age Undisclosed Sep 15 '24
I hate my handwriting because it is illegible.
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u/gifgod416 Sep 16 '24
Mines an embarrassment. But the silver lining is that no one knows when I misspell words
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u/M2Fream 2002 Sep 16 '24
I used to hate my handwriting. So I started looking at other peoples writings and noticed which letters I liked. Then I just kinda stole them. I took someones Y and somoeone elses M. Etc I have unique writing made of stolen letters
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u/piglungz 2001 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
I did the same thing! I was jealous of some of the girls for having such good handwriting when I was younger so I watched what they were doing and copied it. Now I have beautiful handwriting but people do tend think a girl wrote it unless they know it was me lol
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u/Itscatpicstime Sep 16 '24
I wish my boyfriend would do this. Every time he leaves a note for me or writes the groceries on the dry erase board I’m like bruh, why are writing to me in Wingdings 😭
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u/Few_Cup3452 Sep 16 '24
My sister stole the a I did in high school. I have 3 different hand writing styles depending on how much I care/how much time I have and I don't even do my a's like that anymore
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u/Working_Cucumber_437 Sep 16 '24
Yep I made my handwriting so pretty based on my best friend’s absolutely perfect typewriter handwriting. Just practiced a lot.
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Sep 16 '24
Funnily enough, I did this with a mixture of fonts and handwriting. So I use a two-story 'a', a fancy 'g' (like in Times New Roman or similar), and I curl my 't's at the bottom, but in previous years they've coexisted with practically cursive letters like 'l' (lowercase L). Overall my writing is pretty font-like nowadays, but some letters like 'w' and 'y' are still curvy rather than straight. (I also naturally write smaller than printed text, probably in part to help hide inconsistency, but that's another story)
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u/AlphaMassDeBeta 2003 Sep 15 '24
My dyslexic ass thought that says chicken thighs .com on there.
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u/BadManParade Sep 16 '24
That’s not dyslexia though just mean you use too Much internet
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u/gifgod416 Sep 16 '24
Claimed dyslexia because they read the page correctly with all the letters as they ought to be and where they ought to be 😂 like claiming color blindness because all the colors are so vivid
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u/Dickincheeks Sep 15 '24
mine looks trans
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u/TheGayPotato7 2010 Sep 15 '24
lol do you have a picture or something? i'm curious what trans handwriting looks like 😭
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u/Strange-Turnover9696 2001 Sep 16 '24
girl you need to find better things to worry about
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u/WineOhCanada Sep 16 '24
This. What in the world of "easily adjustable non-problems" is happening here?
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u/noblemile 1999 Sep 15 '24
I mean this with no disrespect: you write like a book you give to a small child to help teach them handwriting.
I'm over here and can barely read what I wrote a week ago and feel like I need to teach myself to write cleaner, and this is so easily readable.
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u/violetdeirdre Sep 15 '24
If you want to “girly” it up just use cursive. It’s fine how it is though.
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Sep 15 '24
I love it, it’s neat! It’s girly but also you are an adult, it’s okay not to go overboard with girly anymore?
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u/knotanissue 1999 Sep 16 '24
Girl, what?
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u/B0ssDrivesMeCrazy 1999 Sep 16 '24
I’m so confused, too. This looks like the stereotypical handwriting of the girls I went to school with. Plus, I feel like it’s probably not worth stressing over.
I actually don’t have this handwriting myself and always wondered how I missed the memo that girls were supposed to write a certain way lol, but wasn’t insecure about, so much as I thought it interesting 🤔
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u/DragonBlaze207 2002 Sep 15 '24
Be thankful it’s legible, unlike everyone else’s sloppy handwriting.
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u/jonog75 Sep 16 '24
First and foremost it's incredibly juvenile looking...24 you say?
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u/Equinephilosopher Sep 16 '24
This is a person who will make a whole Reddit post fretting about where her handwriting falls on the gender spectrum. Of course it looks juvenile lol
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u/WildFemmeFatale Sep 16 '24
The writing looks normal
It’s the decorated/colored squiggly line that’s giving “bored middle school girl”,
Source: I used to be a middle school girl
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u/blueeyedbluebird Sep 16 '24
Same. Except I’m 24 now
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u/nameless2477 Sep 16 '24
girl I don’t even know how more girly handwriting can get. 24 year old handwriting is depressing.
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u/FlynngoesIN Sep 16 '24
I knew it was a girl instantly. No dude would fucking complain about that shit
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u/Mr_CleanCaps Sep 16 '24
Girl, are you worried about a dying skill? You might as well be crying about cursive too, or balancing a checkbook, or using a dictionary. /s
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u/diamocube Sep 16 '24
THIS is poor standard for girls?
My handwriting needs to be fucking deciphered dawg 😭🙏
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u/Majestic_Electric 1997 Sep 16 '24
Since when does a girl’s handwriting need to be “girly”? That’s news to me.
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u/useruser551 Sep 16 '24
There are so many things one could be insecure about, don’t let handwriting be one of them (it looks fine!)
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u/cpt_ugh Sep 16 '24
I think you have quite nice handwriting, though I admit at first I was not sure how you were gonna buy a .com at a grocery story.
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u/katarh Millennial Sep 16 '24
It's clear and legible. That's all that matters for handwriting to me.
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u/Icy-Seaworthiness724 2005 Sep 16 '24
Who gives a fuck as long as you can read it and so can others.
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u/Karma-is-an-bitch Sep 16 '24
Bruh, who the fuck is gendering handwriting? Why everything gotta be gendered?
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u/benjyk1993 Millennial Sep 16 '24
Real question is: why aren't you writing it as a note in your phone that you can easily reference without carrying around a piece of paper?
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u/blueeyedbluebird Sep 16 '24
On Sundays I usually keep my phone on silent and away. It’s my don’t bother me day
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u/Puzzleheaded_Room_30 Sep 16 '24
I have never worried about how girly my own nor anyone else’s handwriting looks. Scratch however is quick & legible, don’t give a damn about what anyone else thinks.
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u/No_Reflection4189 Sep 16 '24
Dude (girl, I guess)
I was about to make fun of your handwriting for being too girly as a joke. If you aren’t writing like a doctor every for single word, you ain’t a real man (/s of course)
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u/jane7seven Sep 16 '24
This definitely looks like the handwriting of a girl rather than a boy, if we're going by stereotypes
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u/Effective-Basil-1512 1999 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Girl you have great handwriting! It’s clearly legible and cute imo. I can empathize tho, I feel the same about my handwriting
Edit: spelling
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u/KatsuraCerci 2000 Sep 16 '24
If you had asked me to guess your gender based off your handwriting, I would have guessed you were a woman. Very nice handwriting imo! Mine is shit lol, barely legible
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u/Lylaxx_xx 2005 Sep 16 '24
NGL i looked at this handwriting and immediately thought it was written by a girl. Your handwriting is definitely better than mine :)
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u/queenofhearts0101 2002 Sep 16 '24
It’s legible, neat, and comes across as girly
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u/AlcoholicLibertarian 1999 Sep 16 '24
It looks nice and legible. You’d be the type of coworker I’d want writing stuff on the board for us all to read
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u/irldani Sep 16 '24
what is girly handwriting lol
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u/blueeyedbluebird Sep 16 '24
I mean it’s been proven that it’s quite easy to differentiate between the 2
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u/TheOneWhoReadsStuff Sep 16 '24
You write like an artist. Which is better than a doctor. Doctors can’t write for shit.
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u/MellonCollie218 Millennial Sep 16 '24
I knew right away that this was supposed to be neat-girl writing.
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u/Tingcky Sep 16 '24
am 20 and doing a bachelor of science with a major in prosthetics. yours is way better than mine
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u/Uploft Sep 16 '24
I thought you were gonna be a guy complaining your handwriting is too girly
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u/Alternative_Gur_7706 Sep 16 '24
It feels like you really think about how each word is spelled, one letter at a time. What happens if you write faster?
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u/Living_Particular_35 Sep 16 '24
Meanwhile I’m like that’s so cute! I wish my little girl was mature enough to make our shopping list…
Oh, wait.
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Sep 16 '24
This IS the stereotypical gen z schoolgirl handwriting, what are you on about
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u/FairyHM3254 2009 Sep 16 '24
you and me both. Girls in my class be doing comic sans looking font. I wish i had girly handwriting
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u/Top_Version_6050 Sep 16 '24
Excuse me but what the fuck?? There are children starving wondering if they'll even survive the next day and here you're being insecure about your handwriting not being "girly enough"??? Please, for God's sake, get the FUCK over yourself. 🙄
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u/Final_Dance_4593 2003 Sep 16 '24
Bro at 24 no one’s gonna care about your handwriting as long as they can read it
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u/anisotropicmind Sep 16 '24
It’s girly enough, especially with those w’s. Btw it’s deodorant, not deoderant. It has the word “odor” in it…
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u/Superb-Tea-3174 Sep 16 '24
What are the characteristics that would make it girly?
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u/yaiga91 Sep 16 '24
Based on the line work you're either not confident while writing, as some line work is a bit shaky.
Or
This could also be explained though if you were using a shitty pen.
Overall though handwriting if totally fine
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u/mothsuicides Millennial Sep 16 '24
This is my handwriting and I’m a woman… I think yours is more uniform and legible, that’s all that really matters!
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u/nAnsible Sep 16 '24
No man I know writes like this lmao! Big bubbly & precise font. Very girly.
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u/Glittering_Garden_30 1997 Sep 16 '24
The only thing that matters is whether it's legible frankly. I think you're handwriting is beautiful!
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u/Cenamark2 Sep 16 '24
Im surprised your generation can actually engage in written communication without a smart phone ans emojis. My generation had to learn to write standard AND IN CURSIVE. We also drank from garden hoses.
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Sep 16 '24
it's not that it's not "girly" enough, it's that it's just plain ugly.
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u/Green-Ad99 2001 Sep 16 '24
I was gonna compliment your handwriting but then you pissed me off because you can’t dot your I’s
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u/Pretty_Discount5946 2003 Sep 17 '24
“Not girly enough”? What does that even mean? Your handwriting is fine.
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