How did they know she was a girl?
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jk90us — 9 years ago(September 10, 2016 04:40 PM)
i think it's prejudice regarding short hair.
How the hell is that prejudice?
apparently woman can't have short hair without looking like a boy. and i think that is pathetic bullcrap.
Not at all, just as men can have long hair without looking like girls.
But there can be some confusion when girls have manly butch features (like Eleven). I thought it was a guy until someone said it was a girl.
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Herengone — 9 years ago(September 10, 2016 06:44 PM)
Brown does not have a "manly butch" face. It takes a special kind of person to look at her up close and not realize she's female. The fact that all of the characters and most people on this message board realized she was a girl says something about YOUnot the actress.
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jk90us — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 01:57 PM)
The fact that all of the characters and most people on this message board realized she was a girl says something about YOUnot the actress.
I've seen several posts on forums where people thought she was a guy. Hell, even some of the adults in the show thought she was a guy.
Maybe you're just attracted to guys or butch girls. Ever thought of that?
I also thought Mike Wheeler was a scrawny middle aged woman for awhile.
jk90
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JJett131313 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 07:54 PM)
didn't the one man (one of the patrons from the diner) Hopper was questioning say that they thought the youngster who Benny saw eating/stealing the food was a boy but that he/they (the diner patrons) didn't get a good look?
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weheartmovies — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 07:59 PM)
Yeah you're right I forgot about that guy from the diner who said it was a boy. I was just thinking that most people would assume it was a boyunless they really looked at her up close. I agree she does have a very feminine soft face but my initial thought was a boy.
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xxstaindrosesxx-1 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 08:54 PM)
Sometimes boys look feminine until they hit puberty, and with the ages, I think it would be hard to determine if Eleven was a boy or girl. Even the guy who owned that diner in the beginning thought she was a boy at first. I personally don't think they would have known, so that part did seem a little odd to me.
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warrior-poet — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 11:21 PM)
They actually didn't at first. Only when getting a close look did they realize. Benny, the restaurant guy, actually calls her "boy" but then turns her around and realizes she's a girl. Benny then says "she speaks" later on when they're sitting eating at the table.
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jsagotsky-1 — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 10:47 PM)
Boys and girls have differently shaped faces. Millie Bobbie Brown has delicate features.
Did anybody have trouble telling that Charlize Theron was a woman in Mad Max? besides short hair, they taped her breasts, but no mistaking she was a woman. Unless u think the grease on her forehead is what made her look feminene. -
Rex16 — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 02:03 AM)
Boys and girls have differently shaped faces. Millie Bobbie Brown has delicate features.
Did anybody have trouble telling that Charlize Theron was a woman in Mad Max? besides short hair, they taped her breasts, but no mistaking she was a woman. Unless u think the grease on her forehead is what made her look feminene.
But there are significant differences between an adult woman who has a shaved head and a pre-teen child with short hair. I have posted my thoughts below on how Benny understood that Eleven is a girl (I put it down to body language) but I couldn't have picked it up from her facial features alone. -
Rex16 — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 01:53 AM)
How did the guy at the diner and the boys know she was a girl??
That was my first question, too. A lot of the posters here are claiming that it's obvious but I couldn't have picked that up myself just from Eleven's facial features.
I suppose girls have different body language than boys. May be the way Benny figured it out was that if it had been a delinquent boy, he would have reacted differently to being forcefully restrained by Benny. May be he would have struggled more or tried to bite.
Eleven just looked scared and didn't put up a fight, which is a more "feminine" response. That probably led Benny to realise the truth. -
Sumatran_Ratmonkey — 9 years ago(September 25, 2016 06:06 AM)
Up close and in person, you can usually tell. Male and female skull structure have significant differences that most people will pick up on, even if they're not sure what they're looking for. One of the strongest indicators is that an average male skull has a more prominent eyebrow ridge than a female skull.