How did they know she was a girl?
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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.
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NotAmyMerrick — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 10:28 PM)
pre puberty that's true as male and female bodies are almost identical, including bone density, breast tissue and testosterone levels.
But by 9 or 10 the difference becomes more than social identifiers (clothes, hair and so on) because body shapes change.