Making Boy Dolls....Boys! [~Small Edit~]

I think the main reason people think the dolls are girls is because when people think of dolls they think of female dolls. There are no, that I know of, male procilien dolls, there are a rare few boy toy dolls.. like ken and stuff.. and so its likely that when people see a doll, they merely assume since it is a doll that it is female, before really looking at the doll.

 

A lot of my boys get mistaken for girls, but my Liam never gets mistaken for a girl. I'm not sure if it's how he's dressed - t-shirt and camo pants, but the shirt has glittery girls on it - or maybe because he has short hair, or a boyish faceup... but no one has ever considered him a girl. I even had him at the hospital with me this week, and men and women were coming up and talking to me about him, and everyone knew immediately that he was a boy.

Sometimes I think it's just the "air" around them. So many boy dolls have long hair, and I think due to societal assumptions that boys have short hair and girls have long hair, this is a large part of the misunderstanding. Even real life flesh men with longer hair are often mistaken for girls at a brief glance.

 

It's surprising how much more masculine my DIM mini looked when I removed the eyelashes his previous owner had added. My AS mini still has his default lashes, and he sometimes is mistaken for a girl. My boys also have short hair and wear bland masculine clothes, though, so their gender is fairly clear.

 

I haven't had that problem much. Dorian sometimes is referred to as she, probably because of his long hair, but Noble and Kisten don't get that at all. Of course I don't think the Dz Yuu's look feminen at all so I think that helps Noble, and Kisten's hair is short so that I'm sure helps him.

 

All my boys (that actually have hair, most are bald) have long hair, so I assume that is not helping matters...but I hate short hair. They also don't wear typical boy clothes. I'll stick them in trousers sometimes but often my dolls wear robes as that is their culture. Robe = dress. I don't go very far in trying to avoid making my dolls look like girls...

 

One time I was showing my dolls to a daughter of a friend of mine, she is 4. The first two dolls that I showed her where my girls and she really liked them, doing the OOOO pretty thing. Than I showed her my boy and her comment was "That’s a BOY, I don't like boys." I thought it was really funny.

 

Short hair, open shirts and tight pants help. Usually Token isn't mistaken for a girl unless he's in his kimono. ^^; When he's in his kimono with his longer wig it's always "what a pretty girl!" and yes..it's annoying. -laughs-

 

It never happened to me with any doll /statuette/marionette or bjd -either it's Remiel or pics of any bjd doll in my wishlist (& some have much more delicate look than Remiel)
I believe it's not the doll causing that but the other person's prejudices anyone can have preconceived ideas ... (prejudices : either is the "dolls=girls" , either is the "ken syndrome" (lol) either is the "fashion for men vs fashion for women" thing e.t.c. ... none of them ever happened to my environment , although I saw such attitudes online... -not in doa & not with my collection- ... but never have this with real people in my life ... )
..but truth is also that my collections,dolls or wishlists are usually seen by people with the same philosophy as me ...

 

For me, the only one of my dolls that's ever been recognized as a boy is my tiny Pukipuki, which I find kind of funny. All of the others are constantly confused for females, no matter what I try. It only bothers me when the people argue back about it, insisting that no, it HAS to be a girl. But otherwise, I don't care anymore. Whenever someone says, "She's pretty," I just say, "It's a boy, and yes, he is~" I've given up on trying to find a way to make them look more masculine. People automatically associate dolls with femininity, so any male doll that is even remotely androgynous will be mistaken for a girl. At least according to the people I know. *shrug*

 

I get my Luts NaNuRi06 (which is an incredibly girly mold) recognized as a boy by keeping his shirt open and putting him in a "lookit-mah-crotch!" position whenever I put him down. I vaguely recall people at cons commenting on him being the manliest doll there.

I have 9 boy dolls now. Generally, 7 of them get mistaken for girls. Admittedly, one of them wears dresses, but that's just ONE.

I've given up, sort of.

 

I see your point!

I am expecting my first BOY and will be dressing him like a BOY! Jeans..t-shoes or boots..shorter hair...and throw in a guitar for good measure. This is my taste, too. I've got girlie girls ~~ I want a BOY!

 

Show a girly boy and say it's a boy. Overcompensation makes people call even my girl dolls boys. XD

I have a Sooah head on a CP boy body and I've used some tricks to make him look more boyish, because Sooah is rather feminine. I've blushed his cheeks and sides of his face darker to give him a more angular look and blushed his eye sockets darker so they look deeper. He wears a really short wig, distressed jeans and boyish shirts. I think I managed to make him look like a boy as much as is possible, but people still tell me they like him because he's so androgynous.

 

I wear only t-shirts & jeans & I also play electric bass guitar & classical guitar ,& I am not a boy at all ,I'm a woman ,jeans,t shirts,short hair ,long hair & musical instruments as much more things in world are unisex ...

 

Me:
Jeans - check
T-shirt - check
Short Hair - check
Electric Bass Guitar - Check
Boy - Nope

That said I always get told my 70cm boy is a girl that looks just like me - even though he wears jeans, a tight singlet that shows off his abs and has short hair and I always introduce him as "This is Cane isn't he amazing"... And he has elf ears!

 

I dress my boy in a button-down shirt and leave it unbuttoned ... can't mistake pecs for hooters that way ;D

 

BJDs are created with a different aesthetic from the crazy strict idea most Westerners have of what a man is, so no matter what you do someone's still probably going to refer to your guy as 'she'. I even get it with my SSDF, who I jokingly refer to as the Giant Man Doll because of his uber-masculine body. I don't think there's really any foolproof way to remedy that short of showing off their junk all the time, and that's not really appealing.

 

Foolproof way to get people to call your doll "he?" give him a huge bushy beard and a crew cut. lol

I really don't care if non-doll people call my dolls girls. I wont even correct them, and it's always compliments or polite questions anyways. I'd take "she's so pretty!" over "what's with the big creepy doll" any day.

 

(i dont own a doll but i have some in put lol) I think some people just cant get gender very well, for when i was a baby and dressed up in a pink frilly dress and a pink bow in my hair a man walked up a
and said, "what a nice little boy you have there!" so um yahhh, sometimes it might not be your doll but
the person lol. Though another tip is try and stay away from too girly things like some clothes that can go either way :3 And thats my little input

 

... one more thing my ad has to out in ._.
and i quote this!

"Why dont you just take a little doll sock and stuff it down their pants?"


oh yes.. my father is weird lol. thought not a bad idea >w<

 

You know, when people say: "She's so pretty!"
That's nice and all but... but she's a he :C And it's not just people who aren't into BJD at all.
I never meant for Fable (FABIAN) to be a girly boy.

Do you think my little boy looks like a girl? Does he look male, girly, or just female?

Is your boy often mistaken for a girl? Does it bother you?