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What does a “performative male” look like? That’s what hundreds of attendees crowded into Alamo Square Park on Friday evening sought to answer.

And according to them, they are all too often roaming the streets of San Francisco.

A performative male is “a man that dresses for the female gaze, projecting feminine energy to get women,” said attendees AJ and Mayliah. “They’re probably from LA, because they ran through all the women there.”

A “performative male” is not performing masculinity but, rather, performing femininity to manipulate women into thinking they aren’t like other guys. They drink matcha or are a coffee snob, they collect analog media

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