We are made of much sterner stuff, and the consumption of beer is a habit which we regard as effeminate.
I regard it neither as effeminate nor yet as a kind of criminal act to do so.
Here the sofa could be a platform for conversation between men and women, but it could also raise fears of effeminate influence and luxury, corroders of independent male citizens.
A taste for consumer goods, especially luxuries, made a nation weak, self-indulgent and effeminate, undermining the fighting qualities of its army and the selfdenying virtues necessary for good citizenship.
Such contrasts between active, manly virtue and its presumed opposites, the effeminate vices of cowardice, idleness, luxury, and dependency, fill the writings of the revolutionary and early national eras.
Braddon implicitly argues that the space of fascination is a female one and that women, rather than effeminate men, will be successful within it.
Daphnis's association with ornament and metric dissonance is linked directly to his depiction as a sensitive, effeminate character.
In the nineteenth century these values also explicitly involved gender because ornamentation was considered sensual or effeminate, and the lack of ornamentation rational or masculine.
