I won’t tell you much off of that, the lines have blurred a LOT since the olden days when “men were men and women were women”. That’s why I’ve been saying the above could be the work of a broken, estrogeneous ‘man’.
It is a little bit of personality, a little bit of how good your fine motor control is. I’ve noticed some kids are just developmentally “off”, and when they have a hard time cleaning up their writing strokes they have some funky nerve thing or were born a month or two premature. Only asked a couple times but hearing “yeah, how’d you know” is a little noteworthy.
If you want to write like a girl you need to think about style, layout, put the way others will perceive your writing above all else. That’s why they’ll spend extra time putting the hearts over a lowercase ‘i’ and waste 3 strokes to make a small ‘w’ - they want others to look at it and think “oh cute”
Guys are a world in their own mind, we don’t think about how it’ll look, we want to finish writing down the info as fast as we can so we can get back to doing whatever we were before we had to write.
I care a lot about style, but for purely autistic reasons. I am a typography snob and refuse to have anything to do with colored text. I refuse to use unlined paper and always pre-ruke it.
You’re missing out. I’ve always liked pure, unlined paper. It’s a challenge, you have to keep things straight and neat all on your own, with nothing to impede the additions of sketches & diagrams. It’s a good feeling when you finish a good, clean, handsome page on standard copy paper
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