Potter and Swinton manage to make androgyny seem at least as dull as conventional sexuality.

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Jamie Lee Curtis' final girl in 1978's Halloween is the most brazen example of this--much is made of her androgyny and undateability.

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These were clothes with attitude -- the jump suits, the embrace of androgyny, the snaps, zippers and Velcro all had their message of revolt.

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It takes a moment to adjust to the eerily androgyny of Siminica's falsetto, but his subtle choice of color and shading is undeniably affecting.

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The youth culture of the 1960s may have promoted sexual license, but glam rock was the first mainstream pop movement to trade on androgyny and sexual ambiguity.

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Androgyny has also recently been associated with high functioning autism.

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"From an artistic point of view, androgyny is very interesting for them to explore and is quite unique -- and I think throughout history it's been very interesting, " Pejic says.

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The social-cultural adaptations that females are under more pressure to adapt to than males, are a key issue in why females may be missed in a diagnosis, however the androgyny and anorexia association may also contribute as factors to behavioral impairments associated with ASD, because of social-cultural pressures to adapt to gender roles that androgynous individuals may not be comfortable with.

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