Dangly earrings are overtly femme, but are often too femme.

Possibilities:

• sometimes crafty stuff (etsy) is unique enough to be free of semiotic baggage, and thus more open to interpretation
  • crafty balls
  • paperclips for earrings
    • oh! Make my own, with the proper gauge wire, but make them appear to be opened in half. Yes, this provides a surface that increases risk of hooking on things. However, the unfinished ends might make them seem more masculine?
  • safety-pin earrings! [1]
    • of course, here you would file down the sharp point, and since the sharp point never shows, nobody would have to ever know
    • oh, never mind, lots of stars are doing it already
    • on the other hand, the punk ethic isn't bad, even if it's older / has some pre-existing semiotic meaning [2]
• things from feminist punk or lesbian punk groups [1]
• earrings that use smaller design elements (finer gauge wire, smaller beads, things that require finer hand-crafting) are often more feminine, while earrings that use larger design elements (larger gauge wire) are often less feminine
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