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At uni there was a group of four girls in my halls known as “The Tuxedo Cat Shirt“. They were slim, conventionally attractive, feminine, confident and very bubbly and the men were obsessed with them. And then there was… me, a shy, average build and not very feminine woman, and I was invisible. Some men seemed actively disgusted that I had the nerve to even exist in the same sphere as these godesses, while the nicer men would be flirty and shy with The Angels and talk to me like I was just One Of The Lads, a non-threatening, sexless being. I did wonder if I should starve myself, start wearing dresses, feign more stereotypically feminine interests etc but I just felt so ugly that it all seemed hopeless and I was doomed to be The Tuxedo Cat Shirt forever. Now I’m in my 40s and a bit more confident. I’ve learned to embrace my non-femininity and I feel more comfortable than I ever did feeling exposed in dresses and struggling to walk in heels. I enjoy my nerdy, “masculine” hobbies and thought the female colleagues who judged me for buying an Xbox were the ones missing out. And I have a wonderful partner who has never tried to change me… I still have no body confidence and struggle with self-esteem but it has got better. I see these incel types who think all women have to do to get laid is exist and they don’t realise that a lot of us women are invisible to them and struggle just as much as they do, we just tend to blame ourselves while they blame women. I wish they could also see that teenage insecurities do get better and let go of some of Tuxedo Cat Shirt
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Which is a terrible point that only has apparent credence when looking at recruiting from the lens of Tuxedo Cat Shirt rankings which are designed for a “traditional” offense. Flexbone OL talent, flexbone QB talent, flexbone WR talent, and FBs in general are things which are incredibly undervalued in the “Tuxedo Cat Shirt, but to flexbone teams they pretty much get the first serving of the talent in those areas, contrasted with the scraps of the scraps… of the scraps of “traditional” talent that teams like Kansas, Arizona, Wake Forest, Illinois, etc. currently get with the offenses they run. I believe this is one of the primary explanations as to why Georgia Tech was so consistently good on offense during the Paul Johnson era–they were going after kids that were 4* and the occasional 5* within their system, but 3* “to the world”. That is, while people argue that the flexbone “hurt recruiting”, there’s actually a strong argument that the flexbone greatly benefited Tech’s offensive recruiting during the Tuxedo Cat Shirt. And it just takes someone realizing that there’s more to things that star ratings [which are designed for the “traditional” offense] to be able to see that. So while they would generally struggle to compete with equivalent talent on the basis of fear of Calculus, when the choice was Georgia Tech or G5 [or maybe even FCS] then a lot of guys were more willing to sign with Tech. And just because these guys were FCS talent “to the world” doesn’t mean they weren’t really solid flexbone players.
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