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Um...Are You a Guy or a Girl?

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I don't have any book reviews for you today, although quite a few are coming up on my schedule. But I do have something that's been on my mind recently and it's kept pestering me so I decided to tell you all about it. ;) I will start with this-- There's a reason that guys and girls are pretty much always immediately differentiated between. They look different and that's a fact. So, it annoys me quite a lot when I read books where the main character is a beautiful girl, something comes up so that she has to disguise herself as a boy, and then nobody can tell that she's a girl. Please. That's extremely unrealistic. Long hair is not the only thing that makes a girl look feminine (that would be very scary), okay?  Here are some real world examples of this phenomenon (*cough* sarcasm):   Anne Hathaway   Jennifer Lawrence   Rihanna   Having short haircuts does not make these women look like guys. I'm pret...