Femininity Tropes

While "feminine" simply means "any attribute associated with women", culturally, the term also means the traits that are expected of women to perform and have, encompassing things like beauty, grace, elegance, and good social manners. Unfortunately, the latter often involves things like demureness and timidness, which has also led to women being expected to be weak-willed and fragile, while bringing rejection and ridicule to those women who fail (or refuse) to comply.

And, of course, some women take advantage of these associations.

Regardless of the exact form (such as whether one is "girly", or "lady-like", or "matronly"), these are the tropes about femininity.

Contrast Tomboy, Masculinity Tropes.

Tropes

 * All Girls Like Ponies
 * Beauty, Brains, and Brawn (the first one is feminine)
 * The Chick (a character in a team with traits considered feminine)
 * Classy Cat-Burglar
 * Coy, Girlish Flirt Pose
 * Cute Indignant Girl Stance
 * Dainty Little Ballet Dancers
 * Damsel in Distress
 * English Rose
 * Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy
 * The Fashionista
 * Femme Fatale (femininity used for sinister purposes)
 * Femme Fatale Spy
 * Feminine Women Can Cook
 * Femininity Failure
 * Filie Fatale
 * Flower in Her Hair
 * Fragile Flower
 * Girliness Upgrade
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals
 * Girly Bruiser
 * Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak
 * Girls Love Chocolate
 * Girly Skirt Twirl
 * Graceful Ladies Like Purple
 * Grande Dame
 * Hair Decorations (since they are to show that the wearer is female)
 * Harp of Femininity
 * Heart Beat-Down
 * High-Class Call Girl (being feminine is part of the job)
 * Housewife
 * Innocent Flower Girl
 * In Touch With His Feminine Side
 * Kicking Ass in All Her Finery (in that the lady still dresses in fine feminine clothes)
 * Kindly Housekeeper
 * The Lady's Favour
 * Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
 * Lipstick and Load Montage
 * Lipstick Lesbian (being a lesbian doesn't mean a women can't still be feminine)
 * Long Hair Is Feminine
 * Mama Bear (when protecting her kids, it's okay to loosen femininity requirements)
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
 * Mega Twintails
 * Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty
 * Naginatas Are Feminine
 * No Guy Wants an Amazon (be feminine or don't get the male Love Interest)
 * Ojou Ringlets
 * Parasol of Prettiness
 * Pink Heroine
 * Pink Means Feminine
 * Princess Classic
 * Princess Phase
 * Proper Lady
 * Real Men Wear Pink (subverts the notion that anything feminine ruins masculinity)
 * Real Women Don't Wear Dresses (femininity treated as something that signifies a weak character)
 * Regal Ringlets
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man (one man has feminine traits)
 * She Cleans Up Nicely
 * She-Fu
 * Shy Blue-Haired Girl
 * Silk Hiding Steel
 * Southern Belle
 * Spirited Young Lady (femininity as wholly compatible with empowerment and independence)
 * Textile Work is Feminine
 * The Three Faces of Eve
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl
 * Tomboy with a Girly Streak
 * Town Girls (the femme one)
 * True Blue Femininity
 * Vanity is Feminine
 * Vasquez Always Dies (masculine women are expandable)
 * Yamato Nadeshiko