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What makes you look butch , in control, powerfull

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A beard.

OK, nothing really. Last night Fran and Paul both exclaimed how well I looked which given my chronic self-abuse lately seemed surprising to me, but I think it may have been the haircut and new trousers.

― Tom, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My scary face is enough to let people know I am in control. Not that it is butch though. You can be feminine and powerful y'know.

― Emma, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Scarlet nail varnish doesn't make me look butch, but it makes me feel the other two.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A thick bushy fake eyebrow & occult nazi facial tattoos.

― duane, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am feminine and powerful. Taking a deep breath is supposed to mapecs look big, but it just gives me larger man breasts.

― Pete, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A whip and leather underwear (bra has to be pointed of course).

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Red lipstick, stilettos, black-lensed sunglasses. All new clothes. All leather skirts. Assorted house keys between fingers in a fist formation if walking home late at night alone.

― suzy, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sunglasses and a goatee.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

sporadic and unpredictable invisibility

― mark s, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I want to change my answer to Mark's!

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've been told I look goth and that's scary enough for some people.

― Kerry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A suit.

― Sean, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ah my answer

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

being 6'5" and weighting 240 pounds should do it but unfortunatly I just come off as a lumox.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

dyed red hair, a nose ring and my che guevara tattoo

― Geoff, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

to be precise: black suit with shades, all Helmut Lang.

― Omar, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have a black suit with wide grey pinstripes. YSL . Makes me look like a menacing french pimp.

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't need anything to look in control. My kick ass suit though would be a pretty good way to go.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My shiny green California Parks jacket makes me feel rugged and woodsy.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My evil grimace...focusing straight ahead and looking angry...people probably think I look daft, but it's all about delusion isn't it?

― jel, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My SUIT. Not just a suit - a nice little number I had to pick up for one of my community college classes. Quite snazzy (especially when the tie chain is implemented). Managed to impress/intimidate a best man & his entourage at a recent wedding - silly rental tuxes...

Unfortunately, all of the women at the party were spoken for. (Oh, but that's for the PULL thread.)

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Its also threatening to wear 10 weapons on your person.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's true. Stephanie is way more threatening when she pulls out her knife.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have this great t-shirt: a giant seventies cartoon insect leans on bubble letters spelling out the words "Don't Bug Me". It doesn't work, though - it has the opposite effect. I just get guys pulling over in their cars saying, "what does your shirt say?"

― Kerry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm sorry, Ally, but Stephanie + knife = cute little anime character with pink bows in her hair. I don't think she could be menacing even if if she was dripping with the gore from a fresh kill. People would be all, "Oh, look at the cute little feral girl! Isn't that adorable how she's gnawing on that jugular?"

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I dunno, Otis looked pretty worried when she started screaming at him like a psychopath over him ditching her in Washington and then PULLED OUT HER HUNTING KNIFE. I had to hide it. As he said: me with a knife is only theoretically scary, cos I'm just going to do something to myself with the knife anyhow, not anyone else. Stephanie could easily snap though. It takes a lot of effort to be nonstop cute and bubbly, it'll drive you nuts.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm sorry, I just can't stop giggling. Stephanie threatening Otis with a knife is deeply outside of my current world view, so I can't help but laugh. (Everything's funny until someone gets eviscerated.)

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Don't worry, I found it pretty damn hilarious myself. No one ever believes me when I tell these stories, but you've seen us all together. We're psychotic.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's the problem: I CAN VIVIDLY IMAGINE IT HAPPENING. And it's better than anything I've seen on TV in the past week.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Getting zero sleep the night before. I look haunted and unstable, which is my way of being powerful and in control.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Imagine if you actually saw it...here's the scene: Me, Ramon and Otis are all in the kitchen, fixin' up some drinks. Steph and our friend Tim are in living room, watching Edward Scissorhands. Otis has only just showed up within the past 15 minutes. Enter Steph to kitchen, pissed look on face. "So. Why didn't you go to Washington with me?" Escalate the screaming along the lines of "You promised you'd take me out and then you didn't come and for what? You didn't do anything that weekend!" for about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, I'm sitting on the sink, Ramon facing me as I studiously try to ignore the situation, telling him to shush and do the same. To enforce this willful ignorance, I have broken out the Mr. Winkle calendar and am showing Ramon pictures of a deformed dog. Then out comes the knife.

When Steph left the room, I hid the knife under the sink. Puking and screaming and ashing is fine, stabbing just is against house rules.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am very rarely butch, in control or powerful, but smart clothes do help.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i like to have an electric guitar in my hands. that makes me look pretty kick arse. i hope. it makes me feel pretty damn tough. love them phallic things. i guess that could also apply to my car, when it goes. though i guess me having some cheesey eighties hit pumping out of it would detract from the manliness.

i have a great bitch sneer that i pull when i'm walking down the street. i never smile when i'm walking down the street by myself so i can look tough. couple that with some sunglasses and i am too hard. dude.

― lady die, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I only look mean and in control when my viking-looking black metal mate walks next to me.

― Simon, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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