Now it is my contention that the face on the left (from Vornheim's cover) is fairly gender neutral and that since the body in the same image is posed in a very difficult way to determine gender, that the entire image comes across as gender-neutral to me. I can tell the subject is a woman, but I actually don't know for sure if that is because of the close similarity to Mandy and thus my brain is auto-gendering it for that reason.
But if you look at the image above, the only real gender giveaway seems to me to be the lips and the nose (circled), but I think that is more a function of expression than actual structure. The male nose is typically more flared than the female, but in this case the face is tilted down (hard to see here because I actually rotated it up 15 degrees to be in line with Zorg. Considering the deep shadow on the right of the nose, clearly there is depth to this one, also compare the length of the septum vs the nostril circumference for more comparative distance. The lip flare could also merely be a result of expression, not constant form. Thus while these features have a feminine edge, they don't necessarily have to be. Hence my statement of neutrality.
Now I am not saying the face is masculine, but close to the middle point and not falling strongly either way.
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But this swings as far into the masculine side as a lot of the highly gendered female art you see in various places.
Am I crazy?
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